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To: equal treatment
Last time I checked, there was religious oppression and injustice.

Not against those same founding fathers, who where not truly religious. George III was very anti-Catholic, never-the-less, even tho I myself am a Catholic, had I lived at the time I would probably have sided with the Loyalists.

You seem to be comparing obeying God under unjust conditions with obeying God under friendly and biblically conducive conditions.

So you maintain that democracy and republicanism will encourage biblically conducive conditions? I don't see it, not here and now, nor in the history of said government. God said he made Kings and Emperors to do his will... nowhere did he claim authorship of republics. If democracy is a valid form of government should the peoples' voice have superseded that of Moses when they sought to worship a golden calf? Beware of relying on a majority to justify yourself, for many will try to enter through the wide gate that leadeth to destruction.

Democracy is based on the pagan principle that might makes right. Since ultimate power always resided amung the masses, for they can as a group always refuse to obey, or worse, it is assumed that they are also right. Thus legitimacy is based on man not God. And the words of St Paul are forgotten, "For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil."

The founding fathers knew that democracy is dangerious tho they did not really understand why, and to this end they set up multiple "checks and balances." A stopgap for a problem they could not solve, the work of man (and pagan man at that), and thus bound for ultimate destruction.

71 posted on 05/04/2005 3:25:35 PM PDT by Pelayo ("If there is hope... it lies in the quixotics" - Me)
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To: Pelayo
Nowhere did God claim authorship of kings and princes! God did not want kings! Neither did our founding fathers. The majority of the founding fathers were religious, God fearing men. Just do a search on these pages for God, Christ, etc.

Moses did not stop the people from worshiping idols, it was God who opened up the earth and swallowed the idol worshipers. God could do the same thing today.

Don't look with your eyes at the way things are going. Look at the power our founders gave to Christians to influence our world through our state and US Constitutions. It is Christians that are not using that power and are not following the great commission of Christ to make disciples.

How many times have you visited your legislators? Would they know you by sight? Have you shared God's principles with them?
75 posted on 05/04/2005 3:58:55 PM PDT by equal treatment
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