The Judas Economy- Communism and Capitalism Shaking Hands!

The average American worker doesn't have to look far to find that he or she's plight of finding a well paying job here is quickly dissapating. Just like a magicians trick that makes the coin disappear, the Walmarts and the other corporations of this country that choose greed over freedom have sold the economy of America down the drain and are making good paying jobs dissapear. The figures for unemployment and the economy that are spouted by the coglomerate news media are lies. The unemployment rate for example only portrays those who have actually registered with a state employment office. There are yet millions like myself that have basically given up on finding a job with the comparitive earnings of the past.

In 1997 two authors warned of just such a thing. The authors of "The Judas Economy" warned that the "appearance on the scene of vast numbers of elite workers in the emerging world, willing and anxious to work for less, is intensifying the pressure in developed countries to drastically pare down and cut costs." (The Judas Economy by William Wolman and Anne Colamosca. Addison-Wesly Publishing, 1997.

Here we are in 2007, and the job market in America is the "Great Illusion" perpetrated by the Corporate - Government liason dictated media always trying to present a picture of the opposite, when millions sit at home in the dark barely able to pay their light bills much less their cable television bills to hear the same old garbage coming across the screen. America is working, American small business is keeping us alive, and on and on the lies go.

The actual truth be told even in 1995 while the media spouted great statistics out saying the unemployment rate was down there were 838,000 men from the ages to twenty five to fifty four who had just flat given up looking for a job, and even this number may be greater. Polls and other statisticians developed that number.
I wonder if an actual national poll could be done that would accurately account the number of people that have given up, or are working part-time for less money was taken if these numbers wouldnt actually climb to millions right now? I would suredly place my last dollar on a bet that they are. I 'm not a betting man, but this is one bet I would get into.

While the Chinese forcibly make millions work as slave laborers, under oppression and communist rule for just pennies a day, and warehouse women, men and children in squandering conditions, the call of the American people who supposedly care so much about others we thought it necessary to stop Saddam from his illegal torture and enslavement of Iraqis has been silent. I would say there is no silence in the approval of the Chinese workers enslavement. We love it. We buy their goods a mile a minute. We thrive in owning another piece of the Chinese slavery. We don't care, it benefits us. We have become the most self centered nation in the world.
Even now with millions of Iraqi citizens killed because of our aggression there, we don't want to count their numbers. Innocent men, women and children don't matter. Why should they when we have been taught that their human lives are nothing. Kill all the Muslim B----d's and let's get their oil is the cry.

So, the same thinking continues with the Chinese. We don't care how low a wage they get, or what they earn, or what kind of conditions they live in, or whether or not the government persecutes Christians there, we benefit from it. How can a nation that by poll declares itself Christian by 80% be so cruel?
When it comes to the teachings of Jesus, our very ignoring of the plight and the oppression of any other nations people is absolutely contrary to what Our Lord taught.
Now, we are just beginning to reap the results of our selfish behavior and before long all will know, that in truth, all we ever cared about here is lower prices, cheaper goods, more of them and greater profits for the corporations.

The Chinese are producing the Judas economy. You can't keep shaking hands with a rattle snake before long it will finally bite the hands that feed it. We have been handling the "Red Dragon" like snake handlers at a revival meeting. All the time thinking it is some special spiritual gift from God until someone dies from a bite, then we just turn around and say, oh well, they just didnt have enough faith. Absurd as that is, the same absurdity applies here. You cannot do business with those that seek to enslave you, oppress you, and run over top of you, yet we love the Chinese goods. We love to purchase them because they are cheap, we think. They may be cheap but like Judas, accepting the silver of betrayal, it will eventually hang us out on a tree and it will end up spilling the guts of this nation and it's workers on the ground. The Chinese betrayal is real, and I continue to warn Christians and non-Christians alike. They are practicing "unrestricted warfare" and they are winning!
We rush to Walmart probably more than once a day to make just one more low priced purchase. Why, because our wages aren't what they use to be. Duh? What happened?

While the corporations keep moving to China to obtain this lower priced labor, American corporations to compete must lower their wages as well, to keep their businesses here in the USA. The overall thrust of this has been as I wrote before about is a legal twisting of employment and immigration laws being taught by lawyers so that corporations can obtain more illegal alien labor who will do the job for less. The American worker is left standing holding an apple while the illegal is holding the golden apple cart. Where and when will the end to this nightmare end. It will end when we as a people say no more to the nations that their government oppress and enslave others. When we quit making them our bed partners in trade. We may have to suck it up and pay higher prices, but if that means you and I might find a job that pays what we are worth, wouldnt you pay just a little more to see our industry, our farms and more of what made the American economy great become Americanized again. No chance, "greed always supercedes all logic or compassion".
"Made In America" I can remember how short lived that campaign was with the corporations especially Walmart, once they discovered the low cost of Chinese goods and the 200 plus mark up in profits they could earn.

Just as Judas betrayed Jesus, the Chinese Communist are betraying us. They are our enemies and have been so. They can appear as a democratic nation with it's businesses, large growing office buildings, car ownership, and gas comsumption, but the truth is just like Judas pretended to be a disciple of Jesus, the Chinese are only pretending. They are waiting for the right moment to sell us out. To crucify us as a nation, especially a free nation. They are gradually but assuredly leading the Republican and Democrat leadership of this country to sell us out daily.

I am not talking badly about the millions of enslaved workers in China as our enemies that under this oppressive system, I am talking about it's leaders, it's globalist marketers and government run production facilities. I am talking about American corporations that moved to China just to serve the overwhelming appetite for profit. These companies would sell their own mother for an extra dime of profit in their greedy little pockets. I am talking about companies that don't care and never cared about the America that once was, all they care about is the bottom line of profit. Yes, they profit, hugely under the blood, sweat and tears of an enslaved Chinese labor force.
Slowly, that same concept is moving into what is left of the American labor market. less pay, more work and less time for family and more important things then the dollar bill. All that is important is we have to raise our profits. This is the decree to the American workers daily, so give up more of your life and sacrifice it all to the corporations - that is for the few that are left here in the United States. Some people are even approving of the new criminal justice move to put the incarcerated to work in jobs and pay them less- some get paid $25.00 per day for their labor while the corporation and the State profit hugely by this arrangement.
What we will produce is nothing more than Stalin did or Hitler did in their countries than finding more and more ways to imprison more and more citizens just to feed the profit frenzy. The drug wars have already produced a huge labor market of people if this becomes the practice of Corrections Institutions across the United States. We will for sure become a Police State, even creating special concentration camps of skilled workers to serve the State-Corporation alliance.

There is a major transition taking place in this country and frankly I don't see a difference at all between what was the Stalin governed Russia or the Mao governed China, and America much anymore. Our rights are slowly eroding away to a fat over stuffed centralized rulling party- the Washingtonian elitist, and our freedoms are being taken away both economically, politically and legally. The present regime is even beyond the checks and balance systems anymore that our forefathers set forth. All they have to do is cry "Executive Privilege" which is something akin to a dictatorship. I recall George Bush saying, "it would be easier if it was a dictatorship and I was it's dictator".
I do believe he is beginning to have his wish these days.

I still recall Kruschev on television in the 50's saying, that "they would never take over the U.S. from without but they would take us from within".
When was the last time you took a course in Americanism versus Communism. I remember just such a course I had to take in 8th grade.
You won't find one offered anymore, because their is no difference in the conglomerate and greedy capitalism that has taken over this country and the state run communistic greed of Russia before it was financially broken by the United States covert operations to accomplish this. Capitalism has become synonomous with pure unadulterated greed at the cost of anyone in it's way, as opposed to when it once by law had to care about those that contributed to it. Corporate law has so been twisted now that it is a psychotic entity turned loose on the public, with the public having very little recourse against it's crimes, other than to have to pay for it's psychotic behaviour. Take the Enron fiasco. Who paid for their psychotic behaviour, the tax payer, that's who.

The central government of the U.S, is sleeping with the Red Dragon now. Our politicians are more interested in their personal wealth than the wealth of their constituents. We no longer have a say so. Write your Congressman sometime, I do. I usually get an Auto-bot response, saying "we just get so many emails or letters, we can't answer them all". If our own governmental representatives don't have the time to hear their constituents then what are they doing acting as representatives of the people who elected them? What are we paying them for? Why do we elect the same idiots year after year? Perhaps the election process is also an illusion! Just perhaps we are made to beleive that our vote has meaning, when in fact it doesn't. "Representative Privilege?"

Sooner or later the Judas betrayal will be final, and America, it's workers and all will find themselves crucified for corporate profit. It's happening and Judas is alive and well in China and now slowly he is betraying the American economy.

Dr. J.

War and Taxes - A Call to the Christian Conscience

"What would you do if someone came to your door, with a cup  in hand asking for your contribution to help buy guns to kill a group of people they didn't like"?

 

You would either ask the questions as to who and why, as many do today, accepting the governments explanation for spending 30-40% of your income tax for the wars it is involved in, or you would say go away, I'm not giving you anything to kill anybody.

Going with the latter answer, it seems the most logical when offered no explanation for this contribution other than to buy guns and kill a group of people they didn't like.

Here is the problem of tax paying for those like myself, who do not believe in war and believe Jesus brings a Gospel of peace.

Peace and goodwill to all men was the declaration of the angels at Christ's birth.

How the church has turned from the heart of the Gospel to where most fundamentalist today stand is a subject I am writing on in a book I intend to title "Why The American Church is Failing",

 

The question of paying taxes is a question we must face as a non-resistant believer in our Lord Jesus Christ. This question I believe has been answered with suggestions of how to resist by either no payment or partial payments to the IRS and great clarity of the penalties, etc. by  the Mennonites www.mcc.org and the War Resistance League. www.warresistors.org

 

Here are some facts you may not be aware of:

 

Cost of the War in Iraq
$410,451,578,221
as of 8:46 on March 22, 2007

 

MORE DEATHS

 

• More than 34,000 Iraqi civilian deaths in 2006 — twice as many as in 2005 — and 37,000 injured 1
• More than 12,000 Iraqi security forces killed since 2003 1
• More than 3,900 U.S. military and "coalition" forces dead with more than 38,400 U.S. military and coalition forces wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 2
• Twice as many Afghani deaths in 2006 — 4,400 (including 1,000 civilians) — compared to 2005 3

 

 LESS SECURITY 

 

"Rather than contributing to eventual victory in the global counterterrorism struggle, the situation in Iraq has worsened the U.S. position."4

 

"It's a very candid assessment . . . stating the obvious," according to
one intelligence official.

 

1 UN report, 1/16/2007;
2 icasualties.org;
3 Human Rights Watch report (AP, 1/30/07);
4 A key finding of the National Intelligence Estimate, a 2006 report from 16 U.S. government spy agencies ("Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Hurting U.S. Terror Fight," Washington Post, 9/24/06)
 FEWER FRIENDS 

 

A poll of 26,000 people in 25 countries show the global view of the U.S. role in world affairs is deteriorating.
• 73% disapprove of U.S. role in Iraq
• 68% believe that the U.S. military presence in the middle East provokes more conflict than it prevents
• 49% believe the United States plays a mainly negative role in the world

 

source: BBC World Service poll conducted by WorldPublicOpinion.org
 

Now these facts alone are not enough to make many individuals war resistors, for the truth be told, fundamental churches have bought into the teachings of Dispensationalism and  the result is war mongering, and more and more they have twisted scriptures, I believe to their own destruction. When I speak of destruction, they have left their first love, Jesus, for the love of the world, self and nationalistic pride.

 

I am someone who understands the IRS and their power. I have since 1983 been in a struggle against their tactics of intimidation and not because I had resisted paying taxes, in most cases, it was due to employers failing to report all I have paid, or to the IRS claims somehow enough was not paid. In some cases upon filing I found out that I still owed more taxes when during the time I was working and my employer was taking out taxes, I assumed they were taking out the right amount, then would find at the end of the year, I owed and I didn't have what was owed to pay. 

I have always filed and never intentionally lied on my income tax return and simply tried to pay my tax as due. Misunderstanding the scripture in context when it says, pay taxes to whom taxes are due. We forget that this continues with saying, owe no debt to anyone but the debt of love.

I have since 1985 paid near every month additional payments to the IRS just to pay them what they claim I owe. In the last 6 years that has meant paying them, $250.00 a month until I finally got them to reduce it to $50.00 per month. I was at that time going through a period of unemployment, health problems and more, which left me broke. I am still only partially employed, doing direct marketing for 20 hours per week that pays only commissions when an appointment is set for the service representative to do a demo of our product. The demo must be carried through, sale or no sale, which means most often people have second thoughts and cancel their appointments I set. To this point I have earned only $584.00  - subtract taxes, in the past 5 weeks since going back to work part-time. I am still broke. I obtain little help from outside sources, but God is my sustainer and my provider and I remain thankful to him, for all that he has done for me and is doing for me. I have been unable to find full-time work, for 6 months now, and have sent out, over 100 resumes, to find that the corporate world is just not in the market for 53 year old men regardless of their  education, experience and skills. I continue to look but still no replies, or answers to applications or resumes.

The IRS during all these years, would dig up new claims of owing them taxes even going back to the tax year 1993 in the year, 2005. This is over 12 years ago, assuredly there has to be some sort of law against going back that far.  They know I couldn't prove them wrong if I wanted to, as those tax records are long gone. Those records are lost to the many moves I have made, the cleaning out of my home after my wife's untimely death in a freak car accident in 2001 and just in general of not holding onto these records  because I didn't think it was important to keep them beyond 7 years. 

I was mislead to think they could only go back 7 years. I guess I was wrong, I have had no one tell me different.

 

My wife and I had filed an Offer to Compromise in July 2001, they didn't respond after the longest time period, (per their statement they had 30 days to decide), I heard nothing for 9 months, we did hear from our Taxpayer's Advocate, two months after the filing that the IRS claimed they didn't get our electric utility bills, which we know they did and the Taxpayer's Advocate, said she recalled them being in the package she helped mail.

We went through the whole process again of accumulating these records to send them. Yet, still time went by. My wife of 27 years was killed in an accident on November 21, 2001, then not until April 2002, did I hear from them after I filed my taxes for 2002, and they had rejected our plea, When I called them they told me, now that my wife was dead, I would have to file "two" Offers of Compromise one under my dead wife's name and then one under my name. Needless to say, I was exasperated. I gave an attorney $4,000 of my wife's life insurance money I had inherited to file these, being assured by him he could help reduce my tax and get them to make an offer in settlement.

Instead the lawyer took me for a ride, did nothing and kept the money, then created a fake bill for his time- which might have been a total of 2 hours that we ever talked. The State only offered a grievance form to be filled out as the only means of action to be taken against him. This "shyster" knew what he was doing, he made it impossible for me to come back and get my money back, as he wrote the contract, to say in small lettering, "he guaranteed no results and no money back guarantee".

Lawyers like him commit a crime against people everyday and walk away, without penalty or repayment to their client. This is life in America, land of the rich and the oppressed.

Land where the lawyers make laws that oppress the poor and enrich the rich.

 

I lost my chance to file an Offer to Compromise and I lost $4,000 which could have been paid on the taxes which would have been better than the "thieving" lawyer stealing my money. So, there  I was back to square one paying money to the IRS for years back that they claim I owe and I truthfully do not know that I do owe any taxes for most of the years claimed.

I have had during all this time, two personal audit meetings with them. One in 1986 and one sometime around 1994. Neither one of these would be what I call at that time a chance to prove them wrong with records but rather a time for them to tell me what I was going to pay and when.

My battle has gone from a Congressional tax case initiated by a Senator of Texas, Phil Gramm, who assisted me in getting the Tax Payers Advocate and an opportunity to settle for less with an Offer to Compromise, to the IRS denying of my Offers to Compromise, to them requiring two new Offers of Compromise, to no offer filed because a lawyer stole my money, to paying them monthly from 2002 - 2005  - $250.00 per month to paying $50.00 per month until I finally couldn't pay them anything due to my bad health and unemployment.

I now suppose I will get the typical letters of demand - "pay or else" threats again. To be quite honest, I am not only tired of the harassment, I am tired of contributing any money period to a nation that has gone mad and spends over 31% of our income taxes for WAR!

I am tired of the threats and the harassment, I have nothing for them to take, and welcome them to take the only thing I own, a 1996 Pickup truck which has over 168,000 miles on it and is my only means of transportation. Take away my means of transportation they take away my ever having a chance to pay their taxes. Garnish my small earnings I have right now, I quit work and they get nothing.

I would say I should be declared "uncollectible". Since the rejection in 2002, I have paid what they claimed was $28,000 down to about 9,000 dollars. The remaining $9,000 is as debatable as that which they have already collected from me. You have to remember this is the Internal Revenue Service. Though I have dealt with some individuals by telephone who have been very understanding, the collections process is not. The poor men, pays by intimidation which they the IRS know works well. The rich men is very seldom harassed because he can afford large tax attorney firms that can hold collections up in court for years. They almost always can obtain an Offer to Compromise and pay little of the actual tax due. I once read a report by a former IRS collector who said this was their practice and the managers of the IRS collection department made this very clear to their collectors, to collect from those that they could intimidate, "the poor".

 

I am a peace lover, I am strong believer in non-resistance as Christ taught and the Apostles lived out with the practices of the earliest believers who died for their faith in the Roman Coliseums and even on a cross hung upside down as Peter did. The Great Persecution or The Great Tribulation.

Why didn't any of them resist those who persecuted them? Why didn't the early Christians including Paul take up a sword and form a group of people to fight their oppressors. Not one of them ever lifted their hand to strike out at their persecutors, all except Peter on the night at Gethsemane and then Christ told him to put down his sword and the Jesus healed the servants ear.

 

We must ask ourselves, if we are truly Christians, one specific question. Doesn't contribution monetarily toward a government that is bent on the deaths of many people, constitute, that we should refuse to pay either that portion of tax that goes to war or even all our taxes? This is a question I have asked myself a lot in the last 3 years especially since through time with the Lord in prayer and much biblical study, I concluded that I believe as the Mennonites do in Non-Resistance and only in the Kingdom of God.

The Holy Spirit has confirmed this in my heart.

I know there are many arguments otherwise but there is no argument that stands against what Jesus did, and what the  book of 1st John tells us, that if "we abide in Him, we will walk even as He (Jesus) walked".

 

Yes, Jesus showed anger and there is no where we are told that anger is wrong, as long as it doesn't lead to sin.

I am angry now, but my anger will not lead to murder or hatred of my brother.

I am angry against a organized governmental system that in no way gives us a choice to contribute or not to contribute to evils that we as Christian believers should have choice in.

I choose to love my enemy as Christ taught and to do good to them. Good is not the death and destruction this nation has become largely responsible for worldwide anymore. One cannot even apply Justified War to Iraq. The attack of 911, had nothing to do with Iraq and Afghanistan, yet now, thousands have died because in our hearts along with a lying President, we became evil and cried, Vengeance!

When the Lord, says, "Vengeance is mine", and He wasn't even talking about vengeance for the sake of countries and governments but for the persecution of those of His church. The attack on the WTC was an attack against our financial systems and economics, it wasn't an attack directed at Christianity and even if it were, God, says, "Vengeance is Mine"! We are now suffering the chastening of the Lord individually for not listening to the Spirit of God, with 3,400 men and women being sent home in body bags. Truly, if this was a battle God told us to fight the victory as an the Old Testament days would have been hands down with little or no loss of American lives. I state this because those who ascribe to justified war love to use OT scripture as their justification, as if we are a Theocracy as Israel was. This is not the Lords' Battle.

 

Good is not killing others for the sake of my ideas of government or other worldly concepts. Good is preaching the ministry of reconciliation to Muslim and Jew alike. Teaching the truth of salvation, when taught in truth always results in peace between all people. "Love conquers all".

I am now in the place trying to determine how best to continue paying for taxes I am not sure I owe anyway and my conscience that hates war and loves peace. It is a difficult problem for anyone facing this. In truth the biggest reason people don't want to answer their conscience in regards to this, is because refusal or even partial payment, may result in the loss of any and all material goods they have, including if they own a car or their home. The other side is they may fear going to jail. Something even I fear, as I see jail as the worst thing we can do to anyone. To take a person and lock them up for their conscience on serving or not serving war, is absolutely the greatest injustice one man can do to another. Then again, no one ever said, that man's justice is good, even David asked God to give Him His justice rather than that of men's, knowing full well that God's is tempered with love and compassion and correctiveness in mind, and the concept of sinful men's idea of justice is only in punishing individuals for their sins against society or law, while yet they are sinners themselves. God offers forgiveness, men do not. God is holy and any justice he gives us is from Him that is perfect, whereby imperfect men, subject other imperfect men to  punishment for the very same sins they are guilty of. They live a lie, saying it isn't true but Jesus proved just the opposite. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

Even the murderer is no more greater a sinner then he who hates his brother. Jesus made this clear, and hatred of any group, of people, culture, race, or peoples of a religion that we don't agree with is in the eyes of God, murder!

The American fundamentalist continue to feed this fire of hatred with their rhetoric against Muslim, Palestinians, homosexuals and more. We may not agree with various practices, or religions, or other, but we are not called to be judges as Christians but to minister reconciliation to these people in the form of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Beyond that we have no higher duty then to love them, pray for them and preach the Good News to them.

We cannot legislate righteousness, man is sinful, only a new creation in Christ can establish righteousness in a man, woman or child's life. Law's designed to regulate man's behavior, have proven failed throughout history. I am not calling for no law, for society itself would crumble without law because it is made up of the lawless as well as the Christian, but to remember that the law is for the lawless and a school master to Christ, and that as such it is our purpose only as Christians to seek the redemption of all violators by showing them the way to Christ.

It is not our job to punish  this belongs only to the, One Lawgiver and Judge, God.

I oppose the death penalty for these reasons and I truly believe we can find better ways to correct criminals then propagating criminality through penitentiaries and putting them in a society that only promotes criminality, not only among the imprisoned but with those that imprison them. Recent events in Texas youth prisons have proven my point and the history of criminal justice has proven my point. Very few people come out corrected and very few people stay corrected from imprisonment. The few that have it is only due to the presence of Christian outreach and their conversion to Christ. Many of these in the prisons suffer, psychological and spiritual problems that could be resolved, many had no chance in life in their upbringing, and they could be made whole with a different societal approach to their correction. How can imperfect men, ever correct imperfect men, without Christ as center of that correction coming from a Spirit led and abiding Christian.  This is not the case in the real world. Thus it is a spiral that continues until Jesus comes, or we as believers take more action to being a part to bringing the Kingdom of God to pass in people's lives. I thank God for people like my uncle who was a Prison Chaplain, I have seen God use his ministry to bring life to many individuals. He is not perfect but he has Christ and scripture and it is the Word that changes an individual whether them, you or me.

It is our calling to correct the body of Christ always with the thought in mind that we too may fall into sin, and to offer compassion and forgiveness. not judgment, condemnation in which punishment doesn't involve these things -correction ( being steered in a new direction) and healing ( both psychological and spiritual). Punishment only appeases men's flesh and sinful pride, especially for those doing the punishment.

We are to extend this love of God to ALL men, regardless of their religious belief or sin. We are to remember, that God so loved the "world" that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. It must always begin the same way God's love does, He loves all men, and offers them redemption.

He took care of the redemption it is our call and duty to offer this to others by the way we live our lives and the words we share with others. This love for them that is without prejudice or bias.

We are to love them not kill them, or punish them, we are but to love them. This is the hardest way, this is the narrow gate, because everything in our flesh says the opposite.

 

I have digressed from somewhat where I began this editorial, but all the same, it is for us to see, that war doesn't meet the call of our heavenly Father, and that we really need to ask ourselves; are we contributing to this evil by paying our taxes. In honesty, the answer has to be a loud, Yes.

Now what you do about it is up to you, and how much you may be willing to sacrifice of the "me" for the "all".

The greatest prophets and saints have always sacrificed as they stood in direct opposition to the world, their people, their culture and their society, and it's ways.

We are in the world, but scripture makes it very clear, we are not to love the things of this world and hatred is one of the big things of this world and war is it's means of exercising that hatred.

Dispensationalism, and the "Left Behind" series of fictional, non scriptural theology and exegesis has brought many to believe the big lie. This lie feeds the flesh. It is fed with justified hatred and it is very hard to escape it once one let's it become a part of themselves.  Sow to the flesh, you reap the flesh.

I am really beginning to see that "war tax resistance" may be the only hope we have left of changing this country from the war mongering, blood thirsty nation we have become.

God have mercy on us for the death and destruction we have so willingly supported. We need forgiveness not only for our willingness to listen to preachers with itching ears, but our continual contribution to the war effort in our silence, and our willingness to pay for it.

I remind readers it was over a simple tax on tea, that fired up the American Revolution, it is perhaps time for a new revolution in this country that has totally failed at the ballot box to change the face of America. Taxes are the only support these politicians have - my money and your money.

Without money, they cannot continue to disregard the voice of the people.

The "moral majority tries to make us believe that it is an attack on Christianity, whether or not the Ten Commandments are in a court officials building or not. This has little to do with being a Christian especially when the very same people that fought against the removal of the Ten Commandments from a judge's court in Alabama will not resist and take action against war, especially when one of those commandments say, Thou Shalt Not Kill. I don't read FIFTY justifications written alongside of this commandment for doing other than what it says.

It was only with the passing of time, that Christians came to the idea  of " justified war", and this not from scripture but from men, like Augustine.

I can truly say, Christian, "You Nullify the Commandments of God for Sake of the Traditions of Men!"

It is time for us to say, no more war, and no more support for your wars. My battle is not against flesh and blood. I am in a spiritual battle, in that battle we are called to render unto God what is God's.

The opposite of  the coin. Our very lives and all that we are and have belongs to God, not to the Federal government or the State, It all belongs to Him. what will you do with it, render all that you are to Caesar or to God. There is in the scripture, unlike "justified war", taught by men, there is clearly taught in scripture and the New Testament "justified civil disobedience".  "Is it better to obey God or men"?, the Apostle asked.

We know what they did, they obeyed God, and continued to proclaim His name though told it was against the law and to not do it.

This is one of the reasons, the early Christians turned the world upside down! They feared no man and only feared God. They lost all that they had to follow Jesus, who said," foxes have dens, and birds have nest, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head"

Lest we forget, we are no less called to this calling, that Jesus spoke, "Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men".

Peace is the only answer to war, and we as Christians, are the answer for peace in this world, if we hold fast to the traditions taught by the Word and the Apostles instead of the "traditions of men"

Neither Muslim or those that practice unlawful  or immoral things, will ever be able to resist love and peace.

When we harken to His word, we truly will become "Fishers of Men" and like the Disciples, our nets will be full and our boats will be weighed down with the catch. But hear me, WE HAVE TO FIRST CAST OUR NETS!

Cast your net, stand against war and hatred, and turn to love both in word and deed.

 

 

Dr. J.