"Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." -John Adams
Welcome to Patriot's Lament. We strive here to educate ourselves on Liberty. We will not worry ourselves so much with the daily antics of American politics, and drown ourselves in the murky waters of the political right or left. Instead, we will look to the Intellectuals and Champions of Liberty, and draw on their wisdom of what it is to be a truly free people. We will learn from where our Providential Liberties are derived, and put the proper perspective of a Free Individual and the State. Please join us!
The great Gerard Casey joined us today to talk with us about that ever contentious chapter in the Bible, Romans 13.
Professor Casey takes us through the historical thought on it, as well as delving into the Greek translation of Romans.
If you have ever had questions or maybe even concerns on what this passage of scripture is teaching us, you won’t want to miss out on this.
Also, check out his new upcoming book on Amazon,
In our latest video blog, I comment on a USO post to " sign this card in the comment section to show your appreciation for the troops".
So I went to the comment section (not to sign it) and saw that probably 80% of the comments had a anti-war sentiment, nothing derogatory towards the troops, but nothing that was rah rah 'merica. Later, when I tried to find it to read some of the comments on our video, I found that it had been pulled.
Well, today it is back up, and there are zero anti-war comments, and plenty of thank you for your service type comments.
Well, I can only conclude that they pulled the post, and started over with a clean slate, and put a bunch of pro-troop (whatever that means, Ron Paul always said he as the only presidential candidate who supported the troops, because he wanted to bring them home) messages on there and no one would ever know the difference. Forget that there is any sentiment out there that is against U.S. aggressive wars. In fact, makes sure no one evens knows there is.
Congresswoman now running for president, Tulsi Gabbard, was recently one of the candidates in the debate for the democratic primary. She is the only candidate who is running primarily on a anti-war platform. During the debate, she was the most searched name on google search. Oh but you heard all about that, right? No.
Except for Tucker Carlson, she was barely even given any time on the news channel shows, while Tim Ryan, who thinks the Taliban hit the towers on 9-11, and got taken to the wood shed by Gabbard, was on all the main stream media outlets, getting to set the record straight, but he just took the opportunities to attack Gabbard for meeting with Bashar Assad, president of Syria.
These same things happened to Ron Paul, especially during his 2012 presidential campaign. Despite polling among the top 3 in most polls, news programs would literally skip over the number he polled.
We don't have to wonder too hard at what is happening. The war machine is very mighty, and it will go out of it's way to silence, or just help you ignore, it's opponents, making anti-war folks feel alone, exactly how they want you to feel.
Followers of the Way shouldn't get too frustrated about all this, although we certainly can feel mournful for the loss of life that war produces.
Still, we are living in the kingdom of man, and man likes to kill each other and profit from it.
What should encourage us, is that we have the Truth on our side, we are correct in our convictions against war, and there are a lot of good people out there that need to hear from us that the message we are bringing them, the Good News, is the good news of Peace. I feel more than ever that Isaiah's job, speaking for the Remnant to hear, is a job we can not let up from, because their ears are ready to hear.
They are out there, and they need encouragement to stand against the tide for Truth, the truth that Peace is better for all of us, and war is simply a tool of Satan in the world today, with the promise to his minions that if they will just keep sending those created in the image of God to continually kill each other, he will keep their pockets full of loot.
And it's no small irony, that it is stolen loot in the first place.
I was taken against my will Spring of ’68, seems like yesterday still Everything I saw went against what was taught ‘bout America and God and law My conscience bloodied, a coup d etat, By my own government
So no, don’t thank me for The innocent voices snuffed, forever wordless For my youthful dreams deferred, now worthless For the tremor and terror, I can’t purge it So no, don’t thank me for my service
I can hear the screams of the dying The bombs and burning babies crying I feel my brother’s blood explode across my face, still can’t erase the stain For what, for who, why, still remains unexplained Sgt, said: “Don’t worry son, the horror soon becomes mundane”
So no, don’t thank me for I gotta million of sins to confess, but there ain’t enough churches Across this whole haunted Empire of Scourges For the Beast on my shoulder, who forever perches So no don’t thank me for my service
We’re really just fightin’ for the plutocrat-oligarchy Yeah man we all know what it means Though it’s everything we’re not supposed to know and believe I have become everything Sweet Jesus told me not to be What do my children see when they look at me?
When you lose all moral authority You’re just blunt force runnin’ on the fumes of debt, deception, lawlessness, and greed I was frozen, standing in my baby boy’s nursery, in line at the grocery store, I’m a stranger staggering through my own community A brainwashed, trained killer sinkin’ in shattered humanity With tears falling, with shame like a deafening siren, pursuing me, calling, with the war whores on tv Still lying, lying, lying, forestallin’ truth
So no, don’t thank me for Your death raining from the skies For all them dead, dead boys, with wide open eyes For thinking it might be better to dissolve in the mud and disappear and die So don’t say anything at all, unless it’s to absolve To end these goddam wars Once and for all
In our second Christmas broadcast we read again from the Dollar
Vigilante, from 2011, to explain why Jesus was the model Anarchist. And
we hear from the Peanuts gang about the true meaning of Christmas.
This article is fantastic. Perfect. Amazing. I suggest you read it, then read it again. You "pro-life" Christians need to ask yourselves these questions, and realize the world is seeing through your hypocrisy. And rejecting you for it.
Instead of listening to war-mongering "pastors" like Tim LaHaye, Bauer, and Hagee, read your bible!! Ask yourself, and be honest, really, what would Jesus do?
The answer is obvious. Christ isn't just against American abortions.
Get real. Modern industrial war, once unleashed, produces an instant Auschwitz for the unborn—that’s fact, not conjecture. Mass abortions are the necessary and one hundred per cent inevitable consequence of modern war. Morally, that which a person is certain will occur, if he or she makes a particular choice, represents a choice for which he or she is responsible before God. A person cannot morally claim he or she does not intend the abortions that are absolutely certain to take place, by claiming he or she only intends to preserve the mother’s bodily health or the health of the body politic. Health is being preserved at the cost of knowingly and willing killing in utero life. So, where is the Church’s pro-life voice for the voice-less children in the womb in Iraq, who are daily being chopped to pieces by military abortions? Or, is abortion by war the great exception to the inviolable right to life of the innocent child in utero? If so, how many abortifacient military actions is a desert oil field worth in the eyes of God? How many abortions are justified to destroy non-existent WMDs? How many does God permit in order to get rid of a two-bit dictator who sits on a black gold mine? How many? 1? 100? 1000? 10,000? Where are the pro-life protests of industrial high-tech war on the unborn?
In this episode, we award Congressman Peter King with our "Piece of Crap
Award." Listen and you will see why. We then delve into Romans 13, and
try to answer the question of whom shall we serve, in what we feel is an
oft-misquoted chapter of the Bible. In the next hour we talk about the
Church and say that when a church gets a 501-C3 they subject themselves
to the whim of the State, and compromise themselves.
We then answer
the question: "Did Jesus say we must pay taxes?" Again, we ask, if you
cannot serve 2 masters, WHO THEN SHALL WE SERVE? Steve, at the end of
the show, protests the "saggy pants ban" in Florida, by taking off his
pants. I am so thankful that we are not a live video feed program. Your
eyes would cry for the rest of your life.
I love this song, not to mention the band, yes, one of my favorites when I was a much younger man.
You say you're getting tired of the spiritual march, your life is slowly growing cold.
Life just seems so much harder: all the battles day by day.
That's when we must stand up and be bold.
Be bold.
So, let us not grow weary in doing what is right.
God shall renew our strength to fight.
Remember, we reap what we sow.
Flesh sows corruption,
Spirit everlasting life.
It's yours.
We shall reap - if we faint not.
Seeing that we have a great high priest, Jesus: the Son of God.
In all points tempted as we are.
Sinless, He won the battle; given power to His own.
Look up, your redemption is not afar.
Be ready.
We shall reap - if we faint not.
Another song that I like a lot, "What a Joke," has these lyrics: "Law enforcement, politicians, and businessmen, these days for most of them, corruption is a synonym."
There
are certain philosophers I find to be particularly good, and when I hear them
say something radical and think, "There is no way that can be true.
They're great on X and Y, but on Z they've just gone too far," I for these
particular people, though I invariably later come to the conclusion that they
were right on X, Y and Z, but I was just not ready to hear about the Z part.
To
demote Jesus to the level of philosopher for the purposes of this discussion,
He is one of those. So much of my early Christian life was spent in
rationalizing away the uncomfortable parts of His teachings, with the help of
my pastor. "The kingdom of God is within you." The disciples didn't
want to hear that. They wanted something to DO NOW which would make the kingdom
of God a physical reality. They wanted the reins of political power,
"Jesus, who'll sit at your right and left hand?" They recognized the
truth of some of what He said, but they were unable or unwilling to let go of
their preconception of what He was here to do. But even knowing how that story
ends, we're no different! How many Christians sort of think that the US is the
Kingdom of God? They don't say it, but they believe it, as evidenced by their
actions, the warmongering, the desire to legislate everything, etc.
"What
is to be done?" Live a free life in obedience to Christ (those two are
amazingly compatible thoughts!). The state sets an unending list of positive
laws as snares before us to keep us ever in fear, but violating those isn't an
offense to God or conscience. Dealing with the consequences provides an
opportunity to witness to the liberty in Christ to be compared to the slavery
of being in State/Satan.
If
Christians were actually FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST we'd be a light unto the world for
temporal living as well as eternal salvation, rather than what the majority of
us currently are.
Cynicism
is the reaction of someone who's put his faith in the wrong place and hasn't
yet put his faith in the right place. I'm working to come out of my cynicism.
It has been a tough 7 years, but it is coming.
