Posted on 04/04/2005 9:01:30 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Please make a plan for action and prayer without ceasing.
Christians and Jews have two American traditions for defeating tyranny. Armed warfare against all odds and peaceful protest. Today, political action and civil disobedience moving The People is the greater means to resist.
Christians and Jews created the United States of America in a revolution against tyranny. Christian ministers lead their congregations to fight. Patriots proclaimed, We have no king, but Jesus. The tiny Jewish congregations risked everything against the greatest military empire on earth. The fight was about who had the right to tax us. Yet, America became the place where it was safe to be a practicing Christian or Jew.
The foundation of the Nation, the Declaration of Independence, states the self-evident truth that the Judeo-Christian God created inalienable rights. The U.S. Constitution specified key rights - starting with the free exercise of religion, speech and disallowing the establishment of a sectarian Federal church. Some States had official churches until their legislatures abolished them. Every state cited a Supreme Power, God, in their constitution. The laws at every level of government were built on a historical foundation of ideas which included the Holy Bible, especially the Ten Commandments.
In the terrible conflict of the American Civil War Christians and Jews fought on both sides against tyranny. The North found secession un-Constitutional and slavery a tyranny worth ending immediately. The South found regional tyranny and invasion un-Constitutional and ending slavery the Constitutional right of state legislatures.
Christians and Jews worked together to fight the tyranny of worker abuse, child labor, public health threats and for womens suffrage. The Judeo-Christian membership of American labor unions focused struggles on rights.
Christians and Jews paid the blood tax fighting tyrannical Imperialism, Human Secularist Nazi Totalitarianism, and Human Secularist Communist Totalitarianism in World Wars I, II and III (the Cold War). Now, we are fighting Islamists, who hate Israel and America in almost equal measure, in a long, long World War IV against Islamist Totalitarianism.
Throughout these foreign wars, there was the challenge of domestic tyranny. The moral evil of racial segregation was defeated by peaceful non-violence. Yet, all Christians and Jews didnt see the tyranny the same. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. I have heard ministers say, These are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern.
When five black-robed priest-kings, lawyers in costumes sitting on the high bench, legislated from their courtroom the Constitutional right to kill unborn babies, the Roman Catholics were almost alone in protesting for the right to life. At the same in Poland, Roman Catholics bravely defied the Human Secularist Communists who removed Crosses from public buildings.
Today, America is engaged in another Civil War, a long Culture War, to determine the consensus culture, the world view, and purpose of our Nation. Judeo-Christian or Pagan Human Secularism. The issues; Ten Commandments, public prayer, partial birth abortion, homosexual marriage, euthanasia, etc., are stalking horses for the intolerance of Tolerance and Multi-Culturalism. These Liberal Puritans are culturally cleansing Judeo-Christian America. Their judges are todays tyrants. The Liberal Human Secularist Totalitarians are hand maidens of Islamist Totalitarians seeking to destroy Judeo-Christian America.
Urge action. If judges order the Ten Commandments removed, then let citizens peacefully post them every day in every public building in the nation on pieces of paper. If priest-kings say citizens can not pray in public, pray in public. If a judge orders a helpless invalid to die, impeach the judge. Demand elected executives send police to protect. Remove politicians who fear to use their Constitutional powers to limit jurisdiction, re-organize, impeach and de-fund tyranny.
Dr. King led America upwards in the way of Christians during Roman Emperor Diocletians tyranny. The pagans ordered Christians to include state gods as house gods in every Roman home. Many Romans told their Christian neighbors, they didnt have to pray to the gods, no one would know, but having the idols was required to obey the law of the land and be a good citizen. When Christians refused the Roman eagle, they were declared enemies of humankind and killed horribly. Yet, eventually, anger turned to disgust and a change of mind when family after family died terrible deaths for gentle refusals. Judges under the American eagle, demand a greater dishonor of the Judeo-Christian God today.
Please point out the narrow, straight path forward.
About the Writer: James Atticus Bowden has specialized in inter-disciplinary long range "futures" studies for over a decade. Employed by a Defense Department contractor, he is a retired United States Army Infantry Officer, and a 1972 graduate of the United States Military Academy. He earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and holds three elected Republican Party offices in Virginia.
Contact at jatticus@aol.com.
THE GIPPER
"Let's begin at the beginning. God is the center of our lives; the human family stands at the center of society; and our greatest hope for the future is in the faces of our children. ... God's most blessed gift to His family is the gift of life.
He sent us the Prince of Peace as a babe in a manger. I've said that we must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?
I know what I'm about to say now is controversial, but I have to say it. This nation cannot continue turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the taking of some 4,000 unborn children's lives every day. That's one every 21 seconds. ...
We cannot pretend that America is preserving her first and highest ideal, the belief that each life is sacred, when we've permitted the deaths of 15 million helpless innocents since the Roe versus Wade decision -- 15 million children who will never laugh, never sing, never know the joy of human love, will never strive to heal the sick or feed the poor or make peace among nations.
Abortion has denied them the first and most basic of human rights. We are all infinitely poorer for their loss. ... How can we survive as a free nation when some decide that others are not fit to live and should be done away with? I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings. Without that right, no other rights have meaning." --Ronald Reagan
Hebrews 8
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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