Many people are starting to wake up to the fact that the world is not how it should be. The entire world is broken up into kingdoms, all of which repress and control the populations. The illusion that any people on this planet are free is just that - an illusion. One cannot be partially free. One is either free or not. Therefore, none of us are free.
So what now? What can we do? Or more importantly, what SHOULD we do? Should we physically fight it, or should be just ignore it and hope it goes away? Resist it by non-compliance?
Is this beast a necessary evil? Is Tupper Saussy correct in stating that this repression is man's punishment for not obeying God's will, and is necessary to seperate the wheat from the chaff?
I believe many people are asking these same questions, and hopefully through conversation we can find the answers.
As a popular alternative song goes, "The world is a vampire." More correctly there are people in this world who believe they have the right to attach themselves (like a vampire) to you and your livelihood under the guise of government. They do so under many false pretenses (example the pretence of protection), which they force on you at the barrel of a gun. You have no say over whether you want to be protected or not. When protection is forced it is called "racketeering".
Racketeering is defined in Black's legal dictionary as, "An organised conspiracy to commit the crimes of extortion or coercion, or attempts to commit extortion or coercion. From the standpoint of extortion, it is the obtaining of money or property from another, without his consent, induced by wrongful use of force or fear. The fear that constitutes the leagally necessary element in extortion is induced by oral or written threats to do unlawful injury to the property of the threatened person by means of explosives, fire or otherwise; or to kill, kidnap, or injure him or a relative of his or some member of his family"
Perhaps you do not believe that any of the above applies to government. I beg to differ. If a group of people like the Mafia demand that you pay them for their implied protection and if you refuse they then take you out and do bodily harm to you for not obeying, that is called a crime. How is that different from a group of people that call themselves government, who collectively decide you owe them income tax and if you do not obey by giving them the money they put a gun in your face, put you in jail and/or take your property (house, bank account, car etc.) with out your concent?
When government oversteps it's Constitutional Boundaries (by the way, the Constitution does not apply to you or I, it was written to limit it's creation, the Government) and becomes criminal in its intent and purpose it then becomes criminal in nature. (How like placing the fox in the chicken coop it is to allow government to make the laws, instead of allowing the governed to vote on whether or not the law should go into effect or apply to them. This completely removes consent from the governed, which we are supposed to agree to or have the choice not to accept their supposed authority. This allows unprecedented freedom to pilfer, cage or kill anyone that opposes their will or disagrees with them. Sounds more and more mafia like to me).
quote: Originally posted by: Midnight Perhaps you do not believe that any of the above applies to government. I beg to differ.
I completely agree. Sin is sin regardless who commits the act. I cannot give myself a title and license, and then think that I am morally allowed to sin. I cannot have a "license to kill". It doesn't matter if man said that it is ok, if God says it isn't, then it isn't. EVER. Everything is not relative.
Hypothetical: On judgment day, a cop stands before God, and God says “Depart from me, I never knew you.” The officer (who attends church, etc.) says “I don’t understand.” God says “You repeatedly robbed and mistreated my children, your fellow brethren; therefore you do not love me.” The officer asked “How? I was a respected member of society, and I was just doing my job, just following orders.”
God says “I do not care what men told you to do, I told you to love your neighbor. I told you not to steal. My Word stands alone throughout eternity as superior. You should have obeyed me and not them. I do not recognize cities, states, or countries. The entire earth is mine, and I am not concerned with your supposed jurisdictions. It is my creation, not theirs. As I told Job, where were they when I made the sky blue? Man cannot give you authority to act in disobedience to Me.”
This is a very harsh statement for many to read, as many believe officers are “so and so’s finest”. But I believe this is reality.
I do not pretend to know all the answers, or to be perfect, but I try to always take the path that will:
1: Show love, obedience, and respect to God
2: Show love and compassion to others
I will not knowingly hurt, harm, damage, anyone in any way. I believe that is what Jesus was trying to instill in people. The path of God is a straight and narrow, but is not very complicated.
Several professed Christians have reasoned that God will forgive any transgression. "...Go, and sin no more." Comes to mind. Although God will forgive transgressions, it seems to me that in the quote above, what he was asking of us was to actively seek to do his bidding. He does not want us to forget who we belong to, who we represent and who we should obey.
He felt compelled enough to send his son to take the burden of original sin off of our shoulders. He then told us what Cheetah said above.
1: Show love, obedience, and respect to God
2: Show love and compassion to others
Some Christians think by God offering forgiveness that he advocated unrestrainted sinning because all you had to do was ask God to forgive you. If you murdered someone each day for twenty years, there is a pool of thinking that says as long as you ask for forgiveness you are forgiven, but are you forgiven to do it again and again. I cannot imagine, by any stretch of the imagination, that was God's intent and most Christians would agree but yet many hold that God will forgive regardless.
Making mistakes is human; but to continually make the same mistakes knowing it is wrong, shows no commitment to God. Without your commitment to try to do what he asks of you, where is the reciprical duty of God to you? God owes you nothing, on that I think we can agree, he made promise to you contingent upon our commitment to do as he asks.
If we are contrary to God then we are not actively seeking his forgiveness.
If one keeps committing a sin, then they really aren't sorry. If they are not sorry, they cannot be forgiven. Logical conclusion.
Now I know that sounds harsh, as we all have weak areas that seem to be our downfalls. But validating the sin by believing that we can make up for it later, is premeditated. That is not a mistake, or a moment of weakness. That is a planned sin.
The problem as stated above is that most don't believe (or won't let themselves believe) that what they are doing is wrong. I don't see how people justify harming others, and believing that it fine, but somehow they do.
