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Rejecting God for Government-as-god
Today, most well-educated Westerners are atheists brought up in the rationalist tradition of Darwin, Huxley, and Russell. Yet it is obvious to anyone willing to consider the evidence, that Christianity, as with the other great religions, has been an enormous force in shaping the world, and remains a powerful force in directing the lives of believers today.
Religion, of whatever kind, whether true or false, is thus not some inconsequential nonsense that can be swept from the thoughts of mankind without practical consequences. Rather, religion provides the moral and legal basis for every viable civilization. This is true even of supposedly atheistic societies where the place of God as the author of the moral law and the judge of human conduct is taken by the state. The vital question, then, is not whether religious narratives are true, but whether they serve to create a good society. Those in the West who question the value of Christian faith would thus be wise to consider the consequences of switching from faith-based regulation of human conduct to state control.
In the case of the religious believer, all action is observed by God, and closeness to God and the consequences thereof is thus possible only by self-control to achieve harmony with God's law. In the case of the non-believer, however, the rule to follow is David Hume's dictum that "honesty is the best policy, but the wise knave will take advantage of every exception."
In practice, the difference between a religious society and an atheistic society is thus the difference between freedom and tyranny. In a world dominated by faith, people seek to act with self-control in conformity with the moral law and under the eye of God. In an atheistic society people will follow the Humean policy of self-service, leading inevitably to an ever expanding system of technologically enabled state control. The end result of the latter development of society will, obviously, involve momemt by moment state surveillance and a gadget plugged into the brain akin to Elon Musk's neuralink thus to create a Borg society.
What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for?
What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the potential rebirth of Christ in every heart that will have Him, whether currently a believer or not?
What if Jesus Christ was born about 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem? What if He is true God and true man? What if this is a mystery and a miracle? What if this came about as part of God's plan for the salvation of all people?
What if Jesus was sent into the world to atone for our sins by offering Himself as a sacrifice? What if He was sinless? What if His life was the most critical turning point in human history? What if the reason we live is that He died?
What if the government thought He was crazy when He said He was a king, but His kingdom was not of this world? What if He was not crazy but divine? What if when He said that He could forgive sins, He was referring to Himself as God?
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What if He is one of the three persons of a triune God? What if this is an inexplicable mystery? What if there is no power without mystery? What if the power He possessed, He exercised only for the good?
What if He truly gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, musculature to the lame, hope to the disillusioned, courage to the weak, freedom to the unjustly imprisoned and life to the dead?
What if He freely did these things but sought no acclamation for them? What if after each of these miracles, He disappeared into the temple precincts or walked well past the crowds, lest the crowds anoint him as a temporal or secular leader?
What if there was in His towering personality a deep thread of shyness? What if He was shy about His Godness? What if He was shy about His goodness?
What if He loved saving us? What if He was joyful but did not want us to see His joy?
What if He knew all along how profoundly untimely and utterly painful the end of His life on earth would be, but He neither feared nor avoided it? What if His greatest display of love was self-restraint on the cross?
What if He was murdered by the government because it feared a revolt if it did not eliminate Him? What if after He died, He rose from the dead?
What if most of the world that He came to save has rejected Him? What if He still loves those who have rejected Him? What if He still offers them salvation? What if His offer is real and forever?
What if many folks today have rejected the true God for the government-as-god? What if the government-as-god has set itself up as providing for all secular needs in return for subservience? What if this seductive offer has been accepted by millions in America today?
What if the acceptance of the government-as-god has ruined individual initiative, destroyed personal work ethic, fostered cancerous laziness, enhanced deep poverty and impelled thoughtless obedience to the government in those who have accepted it?
What if the blind acceptance of the government-as-god chills the exercise of personal freedom for fear of the loss of the government's munificence?
What if the government is only generous with money it has taken from those who work and earn it? What if it's then given to those who don't? What if charity only comes from a good heart? What if it is impossible to be charitable with someone else's money?
What if Jesus came to set us free from the yoke of government oppression and the chains of personal sin? What if freedom is our birthright, given to us by the true God, not by the government-as-god?
What if the true God made us in His own image and likeness? What if the greatest likeness between us mortals and the true God is personal freedom?
What if just as God is perfectly free, so are we perfectly free? What if we have failed to preserve freedom and have permitted governments to take it from us?
What if we can never pursue happiness fully or know God completely without personal freedom?
What if the world was full of darkness before He came into it? What if there is much darkness still today but some glimmers of light? What if those glimmers of light are from places of faith in Him? What if those places of faith in Him are also places of joy?
What if we recognize that He is the light of the world?
What if Christmas is the birthday of the Son of God and the Son of Mary? What if we recognize the presence of the Son of God and the Son of Mary in our hearts and among us?
What if the God-as-baby whose birthday we celebrate is the Savior of the world? What if we don't hide this but live it?
What if the baby born of Mary 2,000 years ago really is the Savior of the world?
What if the Son of God and the Son of Mary really can dwell in our hearts?
What if the Peace of Christ is the joy of hope realized?
What if we can know Christ personally through reason and revelation?
What if Christmas is real?
Merry Christmas.
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Religion, of whatever kind, whether true or false, is thus not some inconsequential nonsense that can be swept from the thoughts of mankind without practical consequences. Rather, religion provides the moral and legal basis for every viable civilization. This is true even of supposedly atheistic societies where the place of God as the author of the moral law and the judge of human conduct is taken by the state. The vital question, then, is not whether religious narratives are true, but whether they serve to create a good society. Those in the West who question the value of Christian faith would thus be wise to consider the consequences of switching from faith-based regulation of human conduct to state control.
In the case of the religious believer, all action is observed by God, and closeness to God and the consequences thereof is thus possible only by self-control to achieve harmony with God's law. In the case of the non-believer, however, the rule to follow is David Hume's dictum that "honesty is the best policy, but the wise knave will take advantage of every exception."
In practice, the difference between a religious society and an atheistic society is thus the difference between freedom and tyranny. In a world dominated by faith, people seek to act with self-control in conformity with the moral law and under the eye of God. In an atheistic society people will follow the Humean policy of self-service, leading inevitably to an ever expanding system of technologically enabled state control. The end result of the latter development of society will, obviously, involve momemt by moment state surveillance and a gadget plugged into the brain akin to Elon Musk's neuralink thus to create a Borg society.
But, What if Christmas is real?
Andrew Napolitano posits, 'Folks today have rejected the true God for the government-as-god'What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for?
What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the potential rebirth of Christ in every heart that will have Him, whether currently a believer or not?
What if Jesus Christ was born about 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem? What if He is true God and true man? What if this is a mystery and a miracle? What if this came about as part of God's plan for the salvation of all people?
What if Jesus was sent into the world to atone for our sins by offering Himself as a sacrifice? What if He was sinless? What if His life was the most critical turning point in human history? What if the reason we live is that He died?
What if the government thought He was crazy when He said He was a king, but His kingdom was not of this world? What if He was not crazy but divine? What if when He said that He could forgive sins, He was referring to Himself as God?
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What if He is one of the three persons of a triune God? What if this is an inexplicable mystery? What if there is no power without mystery? What if the power He possessed, He exercised only for the good?
What if He truly gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, musculature to the lame, hope to the disillusioned, courage to the weak, freedom to the unjustly imprisoned and life to the dead?
What if He freely did these things but sought no acclamation for them? What if after each of these miracles, He disappeared into the temple precincts or walked well past the crowds, lest the crowds anoint him as a temporal or secular leader?
What if there was in His towering personality a deep thread of shyness? What if He was shy about His Godness? What if He was shy about His goodness?
What if He loved saving us? What if He was joyful but did not want us to see His joy?
What if He knew all along how profoundly untimely and utterly painful the end of His life on earth would be, but He neither feared nor avoided it? What if His greatest display of love was self-restraint on the cross?
What if He was murdered by the government because it feared a revolt if it did not eliminate Him? What if after He died, He rose from the dead?
What if most of the world that He came to save has rejected Him? What if He still loves those who have rejected Him? What if He still offers them salvation? What if His offer is real and forever?
What if many folks today have rejected the true God for the government-as-god? What if the government-as-god has set itself up as providing for all secular needs in return for subservience? What if this seductive offer has been accepted by millions in America today?
What if the acceptance of the government-as-god has ruined individual initiative, destroyed personal work ethic, fostered cancerous laziness, enhanced deep poverty and impelled thoughtless obedience to the government in those who have accepted it?
What if the blind acceptance of the government-as-god chills the exercise of personal freedom for fear of the loss of the government's munificence?
What if the government is only generous with money it has taken from those who work and earn it? What if it's then given to those who don't? What if charity only comes from a good heart? What if it is impossible to be charitable with someone else's money?
What if Jesus came to set us free from the yoke of government oppression and the chains of personal sin? What if freedom is our birthright, given to us by the true God, not by the government-as-god?
What if the true God made us in His own image and likeness? What if the greatest likeness between us mortals and the true God is personal freedom?
What if just as God is perfectly free, so are we perfectly free? What if we have failed to preserve freedom and have permitted governments to take it from us?
What if we can never pursue happiness fully or know God completely without personal freedom?
What if the world was full of darkness before He came into it? What if there is much darkness still today but some glimmers of light? What if those glimmers of light are from places of faith in Him? What if those places of faith in Him are also places of joy?
What if we recognize that He is the light of the world?
What if Christmas is the birthday of the Son of God and the Son of Mary? What if we recognize the presence of the Son of God and the Son of Mary in our hearts and among us?
What if the God-as-baby whose birthday we celebrate is the Savior of the world? What if we don't hide this but live it?
What if the baby born of Mary 2,000 years ago really is the Savior of the world?
What if the Son of God and the Son of Mary really can dwell in our hearts?
What if the Peace of Christ is the joy of hope realized?
What if we can know Christ personally through reason and revelation?
What if Christmas is real?
Merry Christmas.
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A Few Americans Glimpsing Reality: Everything the Media Has Said About the JFK Assassination Was a Deliberate Lie
Epoch Times, December 16, 2022: Call it a democracy, call it a democratic republic, call it a constitutional republic, call it anything you want—it doesn’t really matter what America is if there’s truth to what Tucker Carlson was reporting the other night via a source who had “direct knowledge” of still-hidden documents concerning the Kennedy assassination, implicating the CIA.
If indeed the CIA was in any way involved in the assassination of JFK on Nov. 22, 1963, then anything that has happened in the public sphere in our country since that day has basically been a hallucination created by an intelligence agency far deeper than most of us—certainly I, since I was never much given to conspiracy theories—ever imagined.
The affairs of the day—RNC chief Ronna McDaniel revealed to be a profligate spender on her own luxury travel, not on Republican candidates; former President Donald Trump releasing self-aggrandizing NFT pseudo-art as a fundraiser (rest in peace, Johannes Vermeer); even Elon Musk’s exposure of the multiple mendacious censoring creeps behind Twitter, although that has an eerie similarity—pale by comparison to CIA involvement and, therefore, massive coverup for decades in the JFK assassination.
That President Kennedy, his brother Robert and most likely his son JFK, Jr. were all murdered by the US Government has been pretty certain, all along, to anyone who examined the publicly available evidence. But the idea that the American public will finally latch on to this reality and dispense with their corrupt government in exchange for a real democracy, is of course, absurd in the extreme. Nothing of the kind could possibly happen in a country deluded by such vile and perverse ideas as "black lives matter," transgenderism and the need for the surgical sexual assault of small children.
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Canada’s assisted dying catastrophe is a warning to Britain
By Sam Ashworth-Hayes
The King’s death was quick, painless, and utterly illegal; British law continues to view assisting suicide in almost any form as a criminal act. With the news this week that the House of Commons is launching an inquiry into assisted dying, this may soon change. For now, what was fit for the King remains, in the eye of the law, unfit for the common man. And thank God for that. Because before any change is made, lawmakers should seriously consider the catastrophe unfolding in Canada.
Canada is a country much like our own. It shares a common cultural inheritance, language, and system of law with its parent nation. It differs from the United Kingdom in at least one crucial respect; unlike our hidebound and reactionary parliament, it has moved with the times. It is on the right side of history. And, accordingly, Canada is euthanising the poor, the mentally ill, the elderly, and those who are costly to treat, while Britain remains stubbornly wedded to the principle that poverty should not be a death sentence.
In this brave new world, death is seen as a solution to many previously intractable social issues. Facing eviction and homelessness? Why not apply for assisted suicide? Suffering from chemical sensitivity, and unable to afford the specialised housing necessary for you to live tolerably? Assisted suicide is there to help. Need a stairlift in your home that you can’t afford? We might be able to help, but have you considered saving us the trouble instead? Surgery delayed? We can end your pain permanently, now. Cancer waiting times too long? Well, the waiting time for euthanasia is only a few days.
The extent of the normalisation of euthanasia in Canada is astonishing
There is a reason people have warned against legalising euthanasia time and time again. The incentives for individuals and the state to behave in diabolical ways are simply too strong to be ignored. Once the essential moral safeguard that murder is wrong is abandoned, the creeping normalisation of death by doctor inevitably expands.
This is again visible in Canada, where 10,000 people were killed by their doctors in 2021 alone. The scope of the law has shifted now from people facing imminent death to those simply experiencing ‘intolerable’ symptoms in the view of the patient or doctor. And – buoyed by these successful outcomes – legislators are now expanding coverage to the mentally ill, who will be offered the option of ending it all. Move fast, break things, and ask questions later.
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