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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

I think we are both correct. Certainly more believers the better but one does not need to believe to agree to live by those values.


13 posted on 09/21/2016 5:55:51 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

That would require the majority to abide by Christian values in every country in the West. Your original comment could have been successfully implemented 75-100 years ago.

Unfortunately, the Communists started to noticeably infiltrate most post secondary institutions in the late 30’s, a follow on to the ‘Enlightenment’ and a Europe that was weary and staggering from four years of war and the loss of tens of millions of citizen soldiers. Each side claimed that ‘God was with them’ (’Gott mit uns’ on der Kaiser’s soldiers belt buckles) so to many, they doubted the goodness of God, blaming Him, rather than the free will afforded to men who made very poor choices leading to a horrible war. Many believed that there was no God or, like the American Deist and President, T. Jefferson, that God was an impersonal God who didn’t care or intervene in world affairs.

The commies infiltrated schools of journalism, economics and teacher’s colleges, so as to spread their lies, among such lies were/are ‘all religions are equal’ and ‘all people are essentially good, that religion turns them into evil people’ and ‘Man can establish a peaceful, fair world’.

As the majority in all Western countries (INCLUDING the US) are non-Christian, or at least choose church teachings as ‘therapy’ instead of ‘lifestyle’, society falls prey to the commie teachings that start in grade school.

Even if Trump is elected, it will only be a temporary reprieve from a slide into paganism, much as Stephen Harper’s period of leadership in Canada. It is ONLY through the spread of Christ in the West, that the trend toward paganism and self-centredness will be reversed.

FWIW, communism is a fantastic theory, in that each person shares equally and helps those who are less fortunate. It does, in fact, generally mimic the human interactions within the early Apostolic church (excluding Ananias and Sapphira). A wonderful idea except Marx left God completely out of the picture. He also assumed that selfishness and pride could be defeated in man BY man, in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, existing from the beginning of time, in every human that has ever lived! Marx should have been put into a mental institute, as his theory is truly insane and had/has no merit nor evidence! Communism can never work because God is excluded.

Likewise, unfettered capitalism will result in unnecessary deaths and economic enslavement of the poorest and least able, it is the love of ‘mammon’. Fortunately, capitalism’s reign was checked by populations that largely practiced Christianity. Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ works better to describe ‘mercantilism’ than the oligarchical capitalism, or crony capitalism that is today’s model. Evidence? Bhopal, Ford Pinto, Chev Corvair, the many deals done by the Clinton Foundation, etc.


16 posted on 09/21/2016 9:34:08 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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