Posted on 06/05/2011 6:54:55 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
At the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, presidential candidate Ron Paul used the Bible to show evangelicals why big government is bad and how their fight to protect faith and family are all rooted in liberty.
Paul roused the conservative Christian crowd on Friday as he recounted the story of the Israelites and their pleas for an earthly king. He used that story, found in 1 Samuel chapter eight, to explain to the faith conference why big government is morally wrong for America.
He told the crowd that the Israelites had a perfectly good family system prior to their first king and did not need a governing authority to care for them.
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In the Bible, the prophet Samuel advised against a king, enumerating the problems that arise if the Israelites did so. Paul loosely paraphrased those problems to illustrate the dilemmas that exist when you have a government that is taking power from the people.
"He says the king will take your young men and the young women to be used in the government. They're going to tax you. They're going to over burden you and you're going to have to work so much time, like 25, 35 45 percent of the time, for the king."
Samuel's thinking, he noted, was astute advice for then and now. Paul maintained that by demanding the American government to provide assistance for broken families, job creation and more, its citizens have essentially appointed a king over themselves.
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"We have, as a people, lost our confidence and our understanding of what true liberty is all about and where it comes from," he summed. "It doesn't come from the government. Our liberties come from our Creator."
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>>>broken clock. He’s still a nutjob
Ron Paul is nuttier than squirrel poop on a pistachio farm.
I think he's a kook. And his son is a geek studying to be a kook.
Question, who is your ideal Senator currently? I'm starting to get the impression that you aren't very conservative.
You have my permission to get any impressions you wish.
Temper, temper. It sounds like somebody hit a nerve.
So far, the only real difference between Father and Son is that one has served 23 years in Congress and the one has served just 6-months. Ron Paul has done nothing in his time and I'd say Rand Paul will be just as worthless.
So whom might your favorite congressperson/Senator might be? I’m curious to know since you seem to favor politicians that get a lot done.
I like Congressman Ted Poe. And most of the time I like my own Congressman, John Culberson.
They're true conservatives.
I'm doing great, by the way. Thanks for asking. I hope all is well with you?
The yellow goat I ate.
Good choices. I must brag about my congressman, Scott Garrett(R-NJ) who is a true conservative voice in an otherwise hopeless state.
I'm doing great, by the way. Thanks for asking. I hope all is well with you?
No complaints. Life's been keeping me busy and away from FR as I used to be, but it's always good to see your screen name pop up. Always friendly opposition for us Paultards. :-)
"Borrow and spend" (the deferred version of "tax and spend" - something the Democrats like to do) will most certainly ensure a terrorist victory when the U.S. enters bankruptcy.
It's actually quite simple to cut off the Islamists at the knees: stop importing their oil. Stop sending them foreign aid (welfare checks). Stop intervening on their behalf (like in Kosovo). Stop allowing them to recruit and fundraise and proselytize here in the United States - under the cover of "diversity," of course.
Of course, that will never happen, as the "war on terror" has proved useful as cover for the establishment's real goal of "spreading democracy" at gunpoint - by the way, that was what Wilson, a full-on progressive, believed the U.S. military should be used for - or, in other words, opening up the markets of Islamic countries to Western corporate interests.
If we’re going in to clean out a rats nest, I don’t mind.
If we’re going in to help the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda I’ve got a few bones to pick with the CIC.
I agree that we should be eliminating our dependence on foreign oil ASAP.
This is going to sound simplistic, but there must be a way to power things that isn’t going to cause us to have to play patti-cake patti-cake with nations that would love to see us toes up.
We had our first oil shortages in the 1970s. Almost forty years later, and we’re right where we started. I don’t think I’m being too impatient when we’re talking about forty years.
That's a slippery slope right there.
I think the United States would be better served by going right back to being that "shining city on a hill" Reagan talked about in his farewell address - the best place in the world to live, work, and play, hands down.
Don’t worry Lurker, Sarah Palin is going to save us all and return order to the Universe.
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