good stuff!
Posted on 11/22/2015 9:03:33 PM PST by EternalVigilance
The U.S. government was not instituted to take care of you. It was not instituted to feed you. It was not instituted to provide you with health care or insurance. It was not instituted to provide income for you in your old age. It was not instituted to educate you or your children. It was not instituted to dictate how your land could be used. It was not instituted to provide subsidies or special favors to some individuals and businesses. It was not instituted to prevent you from being offended. It was not instituted to provide charity programs for the citizens of other countries, in their own countries or within our own. It was not instituted to provide the defense bulwark for the entire world. It was not instituted to be an instrument to protect moral wrongs masquerading as rights. It was not instituted as a judicial oligarchy, where all final decisions are made by judges, and where legislators and executives can shirk their own responsibilities to support and defend the Constitution.
If you want to know what the U.S. government WAS instituted to do, go read the Constitution, and the words of the men who wrote it. It's all written in plain English. You don't have to be a lawyer or a scholar to understand it. You just have to be a citizen who cares about your own responsibilities and the fate of your posterity.
Slavery had gotten deeply enmeshed with the religious life of the country, with excuses for it being proffered from within churches which were in a position to know better because they actually had a sense of Christ. The sad past of Southern Baptists in this wise is no secret. And there was other wink and nod coming from the North.
God therefore brought great chastisement upon the land in mutual war and it did end up in the repudiation of slavery. This was not even the Old Testament biblical sense of slavery, this was chattel slavery that worked even to future generations of the enslaved peoples.
Can the churches of America, those who still have a sense of the Lord and aren’t utter shams, release the idea that the government is their Caretaker? I hope that can happen without the need of a chastising war, though in a sense another kind of war is already happening, the war of American balkanization and insanity.
A return to God could yet do it, and do it in the kindliness of God. It happened to Ninevah when Jonah preached. Will new Jonahs appear and will the ears of the ignorant of America be inclined to listen to them by the power of God? I pray so. Otherwise there is much trouble ahead.
The plain language of educated English subjects of the late 18th century.
A few of the words they used have different meanings today.
Like the word regulated as used in the Second Amendment then meant well trained and not restricted and under government control as the word is understood today.
One should not believe that 230 years has not changed the English language.
Bravo, but lets not exclude the DoI...
But, but... what about the penumbras? [/sarc]
“The U.S. government was not instituted to take care of you”
Well of course not. It was instituted to take care of Syrian refugees. Of Mexican illegal aliens. Of Somali refugees. Of Iraqi refugees.
Of basically anyone and everyone who doesn’t have the slightest connection to historic America and it’s descendants.
Tell me what the Bible says is wrong with having slaves as I read it from the first page of the Old Testament to the last and the same with the New Testament. The old Testament refers to how one treats his slaves.
Actually it is not 7 percent but 15. You don’t see the other half.
Any truth to the rumor that Obama wants to establish a new federal holiday called “DEpendence Day”?
good stuff!
It should be posted on the door of every school room in the US.
Worse. Ughhhh.
Different arrangements, some allowed for under various covenants, have all been called slaves, which has led to confusion.
The bible has NEVER supported anything like the former US practice of color based slave status, or a slave status which would inhere to progeny. That was an outright blasphemy, and to be fair to the current tense state of race relations in the USA, the underlying evil (a stealing of what belongs to God) was never truly confessed by the American people.
The closest thing to the biblical practice we would know would be the former practice of “indentured servitude.” The Old Testament presented an option of permanent servitude, but the slave had to choose it and it still did not inhere to his or her progeny.
Good answer.
Great tagline.
And on every polling place.
And especially on the doors of our legislatures.
It’s interesting to note that in the various adventures of the Hebrew people, generational servitude sometimes happened to them as a result of being trapped by circumstance or captured. To report it doesn’t mean to support it as God’s command to people who claim to be serving God, however. God has tolerated quite a few evils that He would never command people to carry out.
That’s right.
Doesn’t stop those great theologians who claim not to believe in God from chiming in, though.
If the bible went to the modern day explicitly, surely the Holocaust would have been in there, and yet it would be insane to call on it as a precedent for action. This is what a lax attitude towards slavery will do.
Sow laxity toward sin, reap the whirlwind.
Or, as quite often happens, your grandchildren reap the whirlwind.
Happily, sin can be erased by going back to the sincere honor and praise of God, who turns out to be a far more kindly entity than many people have feared. Righteousness corrects and displaces sin but restores the sinner. The sacrifice of God in Christ made that possible.
There was an era when gospel was more staunchly supported among “black America” and that was an age of increasing prosperity for it in spite of continued institutionalized racial bigotry.
Something has gone rotten since then. The modern “liberal” (we should call it illiberal) promise to make the government your keeper is doubtless the chief offender here. That arouses all kind of wicked spirits as what had been charity turns into politics and a popularity contest, all very ugly.
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