RECONSTRUCTION THEOLOGY AND HOME EDUCATION [Rushdoony, HSLDA, Gary North]

Houston Unschooling Group ^ | 1999 | Mary McCarthy

[Catspaw]

Oh, just great - now its in the ghetto, never to come up for air again.

Elvis says, "feed that child"

As the snow flies
On a cold and gray chicago mornin’
A poor little baby child is born
In the ghetto And his mama cries
’cause if there’s one thing that she don’t need
It’s another hungry mouth to feed
In the ghetto

[irgbar-man]

The name "reconstructionist" is new to me, though I will admit to knowing some of the people named in the HUG article, some as just names on the bookshelf, some personally.
I will ask them if they still beat their wives and get back to you.

[Modernman]

This thread is about CP's continued persecution of committed Christians on this Forum and his attempt to malign and alienate them.

I thought this thread was about an article dealing with Christian Reconstruction. Whay do you refuse to address the article, but instead focus on past grudges?

[Precisian]

"These loons are more dangerous than Al Qaeda..."

This is an amazingly destructive slander, typical of the fever-pitched idiocy of those who don't know what they are talking about. Free Republic should not tolerate such insane postings.

I challenge anybody to substantiate this calumny! Please cite any references at all in the "Reconstructionist" literature than justifies such an hysterical and wicked statement.

The acrimonious spirit of Pius V and Gregpry XIII lives on in this type of spiritual malignancy and verbal abuse.

[ckca]

now its in the ghetto, never to come up for air again.

It should be in the SBR or deleted.

But some days the enemy of "good" is "even better."

Do you still believe in God? Or are you completely divorced from Christianity now?

If you still believe in God, you got some serious discussions to do with Him.

You should get off this Forum and do it.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Why do you say that?

[sinkspur]

"The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant--baptism and Holy Communion--must be denied citizenship, just as they were in ancient Israel."

Is the above in keeping with your Christian principles?

[ckca]

Understanding Reconstructionist Theology and Theocracy is important because it reflects understanding on the division in the homeschooling community between secular and religious members, and the theocratic motivations of politically manipulating the community.

This article is such vicious slander and libel against the homeschool movement. It is an attempt to paint an entire movement of hundreds of thousands of Christian homeschoolers with the label of "Theocrats" and "Reconstructionist ideologues" advocating converting this country to a Christian State and history demonstrates that that always ends up with the killing of dissenters and the end to freedom of thought and action

I've pinged the admin moderator. If you have any complaints, I'll refer you to

You darn well better believe I have a complaint!!!

Why is this kind of attempt to smear all Christian homeschoolers as theocrats who always ends up with the killing of dissenters and the end to freedom of thought and action tolerated on this Forum?

Why was it moved to Religion Forum to bait the Christian believers there?

Why was it not moved to the SBR or pulled, as it should have been?

Why is this anti-Christian troll tolerated?

[ckca]

No, and neither is it in keeping with 99.9% of homeschoolers.

Thus this article and the POS who posted it should be removed. But he's your old buddy, so you'll defend this anti-Christian screed instead of defending your fellow Christian.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

On the justice of stoning

On relegating the religious practices of nonbelievers to second class status or banning it completely, and expecting Christians to march in lockstep

[Precisian]

Here's an easy refutation. Tim LaHaye is emphatically not a "Reconstructionist".

If you don't know this, you don't know anything about what you are pretending to discuss.

You really need to sharpen your tools, mate, if you want to appear to have any credibility at all.

Don't waste our time with your sophomoric scholarship. You make me laugh!

[sinkspur]

Thus this article and the POS who posted it should be removed. But he's your old buddy, so you'll defend this anti-Christian screed instead of defending your fellow Christian.

If I didn't know either of you, I'd say, from the behavior on this thread, that he's the Christian, and you are not.

[Catspaw]

You should get off this Forum and do it.

Once again--and read this slowly--you don't own this forum. Jim Robinson does. When you have your own forum, you can tell people to leave. You do not have that power on this forum. You do not have the power to have threads pulled, although you're trying very hard to do so.

Personal attacks on another freeper are forbidden on this forum. To wit: Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Your conscience wouldn't allow it - it is easy to tolerate political and legal persecution of non-adherents and heretics from the distance of centuries, but you couldn't do it or watch it done in practice.

[irgbar-man]

I believe all So9 means that this straw man "Christian Reconstructionist" is more dangerous than all the AQ sleepers and Democrat socialists plotting evil in America at this moment.

[Precisian]

You miss the same point everybody misses with "Reconstructionism". Here is a thought-experiment to clear things up for you.

If a legal election is held under the terms of our Constitution, and the Federal Judiciary sustains the decision of the ballot by a vote of the majority of the Supreme Court....is this "imposing tyranny?"

Nowhere in any "Reconstructionist" literature does anyone advocate anything but complete legal, open-ballot, judicially sustained voting.

Are you saying you will not defend the tenets of the United States Constitution?

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Tim LaHaye is emphatically not a "Reconstructionist".

Then why did he sign the Manifesto that set up the COR? Other signatories include Rushdoony, Gary North, Donald Wildmon, etc.

[Precisian]

Well, I think things are becoming clearer, mate. You flunked high school logic.

Your mind works this way: LaHaye signed the COR Manifesto. Gary North signed the COR Manifesto. North is a "Reconstructionist"; therefore, LaHaye is a "Reconstructionist." You make me laugh!

I am neither a "Reconstructionist", nor a "Theonomist". But I am a defender of the truth. And I don't like sloppy logicians like you.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

Nowhere in any "Reconstructionist" literature does anyone advocate anything but complete legal, open-ballot, judicially sustained voting.

Thats kind of a fave of mine.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Why not? I've been quite happy to watch the "persecution" of common criminals being caught and slapped about by the citizenry (myself included), or the police.

You are saying I'd have been "troubled" by watching people be exiled to Persia for heresy? Why? It was their choice. If they wanted, they could choose to make a profession of faith.

You should stick to speaking for yourself.