When people tell me that I should “honor the military” because American troops are guaranteeing my freedom, dying for my liberties, and allowing me the right to express whatever opinion I want, these are the thoughts that come to mind:
The last war fought on American soil was the Civil War. The last time America was invaded was during the War of 1812. If the liberties of this nation have ever been in question since then, it has not been from foreign aggressors. Besides, this nation can no longer afford me anything. Not liberty. Not freedom of speech. Nothing. The American nation, like most every other nation on the planet is in fiscal and moral bankruptcy.
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers conduct a satellite patrol through a poppy field in Marjah, Afghanistan, April 17, 2012. The ANA took part in a five day partnered operation to erect Patrol Base Sledgehammer Four and disrupt insurgent activity in the area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. David A. Perez/Released)
So why are American troops really dying? It is not for my freedom. They are dying simply because “all who hate God love death.” The majority of recruits are lost, scared teenagers with little to no direction in life, nor do they have any healthy motivation or identity, due to the fact that they went to public schools, which is due to the fact that both of their parents were full-time employees and could not be there to raise them, which is due to the fact that everybody is in debt, which is due to the fact that everybody is in civil bondage.
So, because the parents cannot be around to give their children direction or provide them with a structured worldview, these kids go to where they think they can get direction, structure and even “free” college, housing and maturity: the military, where, if they do not end up dead, they very well likely end up becoming drug-addicted, alcoholic, abusiverapists and degenerates of society who are rewarded with token free shots of alcohol at bars and entitled discounts everywhere else, just because they are enlisted. They have lost their common sense.
American troops do not die for me. They do not die for you. They do not die even for themselves. They die for bureaucrats who consider us all to be expendable property as a recompense for having been wicked our whole lives, coveting our neighbor’s goods, being slothful, and making idols out of death, destruction, and damnation. They die to maintain the status quo, which is slavery. They died for the same reason we all die. Because we hate God and we love false gods.
The purpose of American imperialism is to spread the collective debt that is the United States economy onto a global marketplace of debt by redistributing its debt notes. This only stymies the inevitable economic collapse of the United States so that its citizens can continue coveting each other’s goods, and selling their children into civil bondage for tax benefits. Without unjust wars, the American people would either have to learn to live more justly or expire in the collapse of their own injustice.
“And Samuel told all the words of the LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots…” (1 Samuel 8:10-12)
Photo by Sgt. Brandon Moreno, 1st Armored Division Public Affairs A sea of 2nd Brigade Soldier salutes fills Baumholder’s Minick Field during the 1st Armored Division’s 2nd Brigade uncasing ceremony June 5.
It does not seem like I get anything at all out of that deal. No freedom. No honor. Nothing. Welcome to the American Dream. But there is good news. God established an alternative society that is worthy of honor because it does offer true liberty established by the voluntary bloodshed of its ruler in order to redeem poor sinners who have been entangled into socialist and militaristic bondage. This precedence is extremely important when contrasting the Kingdom of God (characterized by voluntary self-sacrifice) against the bloodthirsty kingdoms of the world (characterized by compelled human sacrifices).
In an attempt to politicize lip service to lofty ideals, false god Abraham Lincoln, in his Gettysburg Address, gives patriotic sentiment for the dead soldiers that he had press-ganged into his imperialist military. He had sacrificed their lives so “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth“.
The government he is speaking of, naturally, is the authoritative United States government that willingly sacrificed the lives of more American combatants (not to mention civilians) during the Civil War than any other American-involved war combined. What should be addressed is that his sentiment is unashamedly plagiarized from a prologue by John Wycliffe in 1384 AD before being martyred on behalf of his convictions regarding human liberty: “The Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People.“
Which sentiment is true? Which government is in the best interest of “the People”? The magistrates of the United States model of government pragmatically sacrifice the lives of their people in bloodshed, in order to preserve their authority at all costs, completely disregarding their professed principles in the process: “If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.” (Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley.)
This is the gospel of men who presuppose themselves to be good men and have good desires, whether on the left or the right, or who identify with Libertarianism or with Communism or with Reconstructionism.
“We must elect good men into office.”
This is the gospel of everyone who has voted, presupposing that the voters of other men were bad men with bad desires, whether on the left or the right, or who identify with Libertarianism or with Communism or with Reconstructionism.
By the only standard of goodness that matters: that of Jesus Christ, the good King of a good kingdom, full of men who want to be good, good men do not run for office and good men do not elect men into office because desiring Benefactors who exercise authority is an objectively bad thing for the exact same reason why men are dissatisfied with their current Benefactors who exercise authority and want to elect different men to rule over their neighbor so they can be satisfied.
Men desire to be ruled over by other men. They love it. They need it. The anarchistic Gospel of God is not foremost one of eradicating ignorance with education, but one of chasing away the cobwebs of fear and unrighteousness in dead, dusty, hardened hearts. It is not a lack of knowledge that must be overcome, but the willful sin that darkens and debases men’s minds.
You see, men need their feudalism to feel safe from the unknown, protected from personal failure, insured against invasion or natural disaster, and justified in their sloth and apathy that creates and sustains kingdoms that produce civil slavery and hardened hearts.
Men need constitutions to bind them to the fate of their neighbor, contracting them together in mutual surety for collective debt, walking by sight of guaranteed civil provision, instead of by the faith of God’s Providence; forcing one another to be responsible for each other’s fiat prosperity, enslaving each other for their mutual want of forced benefits: those sacrifices with the blood of struggle in them.
Men need rulers to perform their social virtues for them through a bureaucratic Corban, taking care of their neighbor through social welfare schemes and government services in their sloth, and taking care of themselves through the application of benefits in their covetousness. Men want to be able to break the Sabbath, resting now to work it off later, borrowing against the future so they can fail to even pay back the interest of their debt, much less the principle.
This is not so much an ignorance issue as it is a conflict of interest issue, because when the ignorance is confronted and the light is revealed, the men in bondage often scurry back into the darkness, defending the protection of their cage, safeguarding their illusions of statism more desperately than their illusions over any other thing, even including the subjects of abortion and apathy towards abortion. They are as tenacious as ancient Israel, chasing after the dainties of Pharaoh or other foreign gods, rejecting God’s Providence, and binding themselves by social contracts rather than by love.
The hearts of men are full of hatred, cowardice, sloth, and covetousness. Likewise, it leads them into the civil traps that God has always called slavery, leading to their own destruction, damnation, and economic collapse. Try and educate those hearts about the alternative Kingdom of Heaven that liberates man from the dominion of man and, being unregenerate, they will play dead as is custom in the Valley of Dry Bones. But some may see their error, come alive and begin loving their neighbor as themselves, walking in repentance, and seek the literal, jurisdictional, alternative Kingdom that is built upon the rock and bound together in love, forgiveness, and life and lasts from generation to generation.
Bankrupt bureaucracies are installed by Christless men as a by-product of the socialism in their hearts, but they are also used by God to bring judgement onto those same depraved men through the heavy legal and financial burdens of governments in debt.
“For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.” (Romans 13:4-6)
Electing men into authoritative office is a wicked work. Scripture says so everywhere. One defining characteristic of authoritative office is that it invariably institutes taxation to even function. In this way, authoritative office is a terror to wicked works. This is why you pay taxes, to teach you to cry out to God in repentance. Your judgment for creating institutions is that they compel your forced contributions and then use it to exercise authority over you. This system providentially functions as an effective ouroboros, being its own destruction, enslaving the very people who create it and live by its sword. This is both the birth and death of socialist societies. The beginning and the end of the pragmatism of institutionalism. This principle is described all over scripture:
“Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.” (Psalms 69:22)
“My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.” (Proverbs 1:10-19)
Satan actually desires that “good men” be elected into civil office. This is because nicolaitans who take the name “Christian” in vain and profess all of the good-sounding, churchy positions while still playing Benefactor who exercises authority and is therefore entirely socialist in principle, will do so much more to lead the people astray, possibly deceive the very elect, promote the strong delusion, and lead the great falling away from the faith than someone who is an openly wicked tyrant by the standards of churchians. Relatively “good” men in office do so much more to further the kingdoms of darkness by deception and enticement than relatively “bad men.” These men are strategically necessary to steal away the faith of the people in the Kingdom of God and place it into the kingdoms of Satan.
And yet, the idea that magistrates are objectively beneficial to society is a common one in churchian dogma, and many false teachers have compounded this confusion into dead tradition. John Calvin, one of the biggest influencers of anti-biblical instruction on modern “christianity” has a lot to say on the subject, in direct contradiction to scripture:
“The magistrate is the protector and guardian of the laws; the laws are that by which the magistrate governs; and the people are those who are governed by the laws and obey the magistrate.”
“Accordingly, no one ought to doubt that civil authority is a calling, not only holy and lawful before God, but also the most sacred and by far the most honourable of all callings in the whole life of mortal man.”
“…for they (magistrates) have not ascended by their own power into this high station, but have been placed there by the Lord’s hand… The reason why we ought to be subject to magistrates is because they are constituted by God’s ordination. For since it pleases God thus to govern the world, he who attempts to invert the order of God, and thus to resist God himself, despises his power; since to despise the providence of him who is the founder of civil power, is to carry on war with him. Understand further, that powers are from God… because he has appointed them for the legitimate and just government of the world.”
“…obedience is due to all who rule, because they have been raised to that honour not by chance, but by God’s providence.”
“And, indeed, the depravity of men is not a reason why God’s ordinance should not be loved. Accordingly, seeing that God appointed magistrates and princes for the preservation of mankind, however much they fall short of the divine appointment, still we must not on that account cease to love what belongs to God, and to desire that it may remain in force. That is the reason why believers, in whatever country they live, must not only obey the laws and the government of the magistrates, but likewise in their prayers supplicate God for their salvation.” (Gleason, R. John Calvin and Civil Government. Christian Library.)
Clearly hundreds of years of twisted scripture have enabled the modern pretense at Christianity to condone and justify that which the early christians called sinful abomination. As they warned, false christs continue to make merchandise of the people by professing to “improve” society, but only lead them further into bondage through sloth and covetousness. Policies concerning welfare , perverted “justice,” and even their own salaries are all based on covetousness, civil bondage, and the sloth of the people. Human civil government practices public religion and cannot, by definition, practice pure and undefiled religion. The former is the broad way that leads to destruction, fortified by Satan’s men. The latter is the narrow way that leads to salvation and is fortified by men of a different kingdom and government.
Do not put your faith in false gods, human rulers, fathers of the earth, and Benefactors who exercise authority. Be good men. Obey the gospel of good men. Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand; the Kingdom that does not depend on taxation or Benefactors who exercise authority, but depends solely on charity redistributed by pastors who do not exercise authority, but serve the people in a way that emulates their good King, binding them by their voluntary servanthood, in a kingdom bound in voluntary faith, hope, and love.
The difference between Godly civil government and human civil government is not based on the appearance of civil government mimicking some cursory reading of the Laws of God. The difference is not based on fulfilling some reconstructionist or theonomic agenda to invade the power centers in some cycle of abuse no different than the plot to George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm.
The difference between Godly civil government and human civil government is whether or not it has Benefactors who exercise authority, Fathers of the Earth, false gods (judges, rulers and magistrates); or whether it has benefactors who do not exercise authority but become bondservants in redistributing the freewill offerings of the people who have real equity and allodium rather than legal titles found in human civil government. Commonly known as pastors, shepherds, and ministers.
The difference between Godly civil government and human civil government is that God institutes one for men who want to be free souls under God, not slothful or covetous, but diligent and charitable in a New Testament networked adhocracy.
The difference between Godly civil government and human civil government is that God allows one as a punishment for the evil doer who refuses to keep God’s commands and instead sells his brother into corvee bondage for benefits and bureaucracy transacted for the reciprocal justice of, as the Apostle Paul puts it, taxation.
The difference between Godly civil government and human civil government is that one is on the narrow road that leads to life, liberty, and the pursuit of private property through obeying the Gospel of God in pure religion, while one is on the broad path that leads to destruction, economic collapse, and damnation through obeying the Gospel of Caesar in cannibalistic public religion.
And yet, the golden age of ancient Israel is described as “every man did what was right in his own eyes.” Every man was king in his own home, maintaining the very dominion that God prescribed at the beginning. This is only possible if God rules every man individually. Anarchism does not indicate lawlessness. It necessitates that the law of God be written on the hearts and minds of those who take the personal responsibility to be God’s living stones, unhewn together by the social contracts and bureaucracy of human civil government, and thereby loving their neighbor as themselves.
“Civil law stems from Babylon and is inquisitorial, encouraging and requiring the state’s violation of one’s freedom of conscience. This ever-present trait arises from the Babylonian system’s dependence upon the priest’s judicial power to examine its subjects in the Babylonian deity’s name. In theory, the Babylonian deity, using various names worldwide and personified in the state or its demagogue, invested his priests with the power to examine the consciences of devotees by whatever means necessary, granting absolution or condemnation according to their imperious pleasure. By entrusting themselves to a totalitarian state, the Babylonian settlers established statism.” (Brent Allan Winters. Excellence of the Common Law: Compared and Contrasted with Civil Law in Light of History, Nature and Scripture)
It is the faithless such as these who try to take the Kingdom by force and make it suffer violence, and it is these who have the Kingdom taken from them, and given to those who would produce the fruits thereof: the anarchists who demand no benefactors who exercise authority, but desire to serve their neighbor in matters of welfare, healthcare, protection and justice, not hewn together in some bureaucratic corral, but stacked upon each other in the adhocracy bound together in faith, by hope, and through charity in accordance with the message of the Gospel.
People who hate God will seek to do the bare minimum to get by, to appear good, and to fly under the radar and thereby “wash the outside of the cup.” This is why Christ instructs us to love our neighbor as ourselves and “wash the inside of the cup.” If we are to seek his Kingdom, to the exclusion of all others, then we must learn to put forth our maximum effort on our neighbor’s behalf and give the best portion of our sacrifice for his well-being.
While “the laws of nature are unchangeable” (Branch, Princ.; Oliver Forms, 56.), civil law is the law men establish for themselves. Likewise, while “The law (jus) is the rule of right; and whatever is contrary to the rule of right is an injury” (3 Bulstr. 313.), “human laws (lex, leges) are born, live, and die.” (7 Coke, 25) This is the fundamental difference between “lawful” and “legal” despite the majority of people equivocating the two. The governments of the world only require that you comply with their regulations and anaerobic rules.
This does not teach you to be virtuous and holy, but merely to be compliant and therefore complacent. This is also why their laws are ever increasingly numerous while being proportionately ineffective at making their citizens moral. “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.” (Publius Tacitus) This is legalism that professes to be lawful. This is what it means to wash the outside of the cup. This is true lawlessness, because it is a rejection of God’s Law, which makes men free, as an institution of man-made laws, which does the opposite. This will be explained shortly.
It is important to express that civil laws are definitively unlawful, as they contradict and compete with the natural Law of God, which keeps men free from the yoke of civil bondage. They are established exclusively by the false gods of every branch of government: the legislation of legislatures, the regulations and decrees of executives, and even the binding precedents of judges and juries.
But, for all of their civil authority, their legalism only applies to the idolaters who make covenants with false gods and willingly subject themselves under their authority, again going against the Law of God. “That which bars those who have contracted will bar their successors also” (Di. 50.17.29.), which means that “The contract makes the law” (22 Wend. N.Y. 215,223.) not only for those who make the covenants with pagan gods, but their children as well. This notion is expressed in scripture, as well as history:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (Hosea 4:6)
“The civil law reduces the unwilling freedman to his original slavery; but the laws of the Angloes judge once manumitted as ever after free.” (Co. Litt. 137.)
Civil law is bondage and sin leads to bondage. It is reducible to “contract law” for the same reason why God tells the His people to not make covenants with other gods. As we have written elsewhere: [This] includes the enforcement of those contracts created by vows, and by applying for legal citizenship, legal titles to property and legal relationships to community.
The kind of law that Christ came to abolish is the kind that hardens your heart to your neighbor in order to wash the outside of the cup, leading you to death by bringing you into bondage. The kind of Law that Christ came to fulfill is the kind that gets written on your heart, washes you from the inside out, and gives you genuine love for your neighbor that sets you both free to live within the Kingdom of God which leads to life.
“There is in fact a true law – namely right reason – which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men, and is unchangeable and eternal. By its commands this law summons men to the performance of their duties. By its prohibitions, it restrains them from doing wrong. Its commands and prohibitions always influence good men, but are without effect upon the bad.
To invalidate this law of human legislation is never morally right, nor is it permissible ever to restrict its operation, and to annul it is impossible. Neither the Senate nor the people can absolve us from our obligation to obey this law, and it requires no Sextus Aelms to expound and interpret it. It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow.
But there will be one law, eternal and unchangeable, binding at all times and upon all peoples; and there will be, as it were, one common master and ruler of mankind, namely God, who is the author of this law, its interpreter, and its sponsor. The man who will not obey it will abandon his better self, and, in denying the true nature of a man will thereby suffer the severest of penalties, though he has escaped all the other consequences which men call punishments.” (Marco Tullius Cicero)
Jesus the Christ, servant-king of Judea came to show us this better way to live, and died to secure it for us from all other kingdoms. Anarchism is a return to God’s Law and a redemption from the lawlessness of civil legalism, maintained by pagan gods who seek to usurp God’s authority by competing with Him for sovereignty of His creation. Repent therefore, for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Believe on the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and you may be saved unto lawful living from lawless idolatry.
There are those who would accuse abolitionists of desiring to allow child sacrifice to run rampant and unchecked in American culture just because those anarchists condemn the idolatry of choosing human rulers to overtake the responsibility of regulating abortion at the expense (legal burdens/taxation) of the people.
Naturally, they are pragmatists who are blinded by their lust for political power. They fail to see that abortion is actually the greatest symptom of a society that has been given over to reprobate minds by the need to reject God’s common sense, in replacing him with the legislated morality of false gods. It is a symptom that is greater than even the chattel slavery of the 19th Century. It is greater than even homosexuality, even though this is the primary example that the apostle Paul gives as a symptom of trusting in civil magistrates. When man no longer desires to be ruled by God in his heart and mind, God gives him over to be ruled by men who play god.
Even though abortion and even homosexuality were just as common in Christ’s day as they are in ours, the Gospel preached by Jesus Christ and the early Christians is almost exclusively focused on proscribing the need for magistrates to rule over the people which inherently takes taxes to occur. His message explained that sin begets sin begets sin. Idolatry (trusting in magistrates) and covetousness (receiving welfare and “justice” at the expense of your neighbor’s labor) and sloth (failing to provide for your family to prevent them from turning to Egypt during times of famine) begets bondage (social contracts, taxation, heavy legal burdens) which begets, through collective license and democracy, sins like homosexuality and abortion (not needing a strong family because you have a strong civil bureaucracy to provide for you through fiat currency and civil infrastructure makes children and hetero-procreation expendable.)
Couple these two realities with the fact that the Israelites described Pharaoh’s provision for them during their sloth in the face of famine as a “good thing” even though it meant their slavery.
These ideas joined together makes the “good” that magistrates do little more than the same pragmatism that abolitionists are used to condemning pro-lifers over. Do evil so that good may come? The road to hell is paved with such logic.
To more pointedly address the concern for having “good” lesser magistrates to stymie the federal beast: federal government, like all human civil government is meant to be a tyranny. Its purpose by God is to make you cry out in judgment for putting your faith in it to begin with. Sin leads you to bondage. Taxation is justice. Tyrants are your sin coming home to roost. And nothing can redeem you unless Christ provides a kingdom through His Gospel, and your repentance unto it is rewarded.
Any good that false gods (magistrates) do is in spite of themselves, and Satan has every right and ability to use it to further your bondage and the bondage of your peers. And he will. Because you need to learn to cry out to God, and not some governor, for redemption.
The real solution for unchecked evils is a grassroots approach, conceived by preaching holiness and practicing the ministry of reconciliation. The notion of personal responsibility to love one’s neighbor through freewill endeavors sum up most of the commands of Christ, and it is only those kinds of endeavors that Christ intends to bless. This is what it means to know God.
“Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him? He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord. But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.” (Jeremiah 22:15-17)
The lesson to be learned here is not that it is necessary to raise up human rulers to do justice and be charitable to the poor, because then it would be impossible for Israel to have done justice and love mercy during the hundreds of years before raising up a king of their own to rule over them. While it may not be impossible to keep the weightier matters while having titular rulers, the lesson to be learned here is that power corrupts and that it certainly becomes a lot easier to corrupt society in its entirety after electing men into office over it and outsourcing society’s responsibilities to their civil institutions.
Scripture often refers to the cycle of taxation and providing taxpayer services as “shedding blood,” because taking your neighbor’s rights to his livelihood means taking away his life. By enjoying the fruits of another’s labor by force, you drink his blood. Only offerings that are given up willingly are those that contain none of the blood that comes with living by the sword of human institutionalism.
This is to say that societies characterized by human civil government have a part to play. For all of their self-destructive and fiscally bankrupt maladies, they efficiently serve as colonies for moral lepers who are too unrighteous and unrepentant to participate in free societies. For example, because free societies are founded upon the family unit as their primary political parties, anything that fails to preserve the prosperity of the family is incompatible with a free society. This unequivocally includes abortion.
Social virtues and community ethics, when abandoned, express a need for the community to shun the wrongdoer from their networks of voluntary charity. As a result, those who murder their own offspring will find themselves without a support group, and must subject themselves again to the yoke of bondage experienced by every unrepentant person: as civil citizens under human civil government. In this way, civil society, complete with its oppressive bureaucracies and death penalties, become self-made prisons for those who reject the higher liberty contingent upon the personal responsibilities of free societies. Those who murder their children, or otherwise break God’s Law, are able to experience a divine justice of being cast out from the Kingdom of God, only to be received by the tyranny of false gods who exact legalistic revenge on those who go out from God’s presence.
“For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.” (Romans 13:3-4)
Good people with strong families have no fear of the rule of governments because governments are a vengeance upon bad people who weaken the integrity of the family through sin: covetousness, sloth, and bloodlust.
And so, while human civil government necessarily hardens the hearts of its citizens and compels them to discard common sense righteousness and partake in heinous sins and activity, it also serves as a recompense for those who discard righteousness and partake in heinous sins and activity. It is the quintessential ouroboros, the snake eating its own tail in perpetual self-destruction and divine justice upon its own wickedness.
The real solution to both abortion and statism is the same: Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand. Its presence can set captives free from the effects of their civil bondage, and teach them to love their children in self-sacrificial enthusiasm.
The scriptural promotion of the goodness of having children is ontologically opposed to the establishment and maintenance of human civil government. “Be fruitful and multiply” so that you will not find yourself without the support necessary to keep you from relying on the rudiments of men’s welfare schemes and power centers.
Children are considered “arrows” because arrows indicate provision, especially later in life when parents cannot provide for themselves. When children honor their father and mother, they reciprocate the care they received as helpless children, and they secure the elderly from subjecting themselves to the care of human institutions. When parents sell their children to the state through birth certification or social security for immediate provision, they become an offense to their children and sow the seeds of destruction that will bear the fruit of institutional subjugation.
Mothers nurse at their children long before their children ever begin nursing. How? Before the babe is ever held, he is sold into bondage for their life-sustaining tax write offs, and as a surety for debt and collectivist prosperity through corvee, birth certification, and Social Security. “Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.” (Proverbs 22:26)
He is volunteered to be an orphan by his parents who give up their equitable rights to be his parents and trade them to the State for legal stewardship while that State gets to be his father and master, determining his welfare provision, and regulate his life in a society that calls a man (President) their Father and does not visit the orphan (civil citizens). His life is traded for fiat money in order to make the debt cycle and covetous wheel of bad neighbors to continue to roll down onto cursed children.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” (Hosea 4:6)
“Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children.” (2 Peter 2:14)
You see, civil citizenship is a destructive game that isn’t even played for anything resembling real wealth. It is played for made-up points like currency and coin that even continue to depreciate through inflation. This is the nature of corvee and civil bondage. It puts people in such competition with one another that they must sell their children to it for tax benefits, and the eligibility to covet their neighbor’s goods through the agency of human civil government, via taxation and tribute.
These made-up points in the rat race of political infidelity and despair are necessary, because the existing system is bankrupt of any real wealth. National economies go into debt by the overspending that invariably exists when you elect rulers, legislators, and other wicked men to rule over your wicked hearts.
Therefore, National economies, or the illusion thereof, can only be maintained by borrowing against the future: Necessarily, the flesh, blood, sweat, and tears of your children’s livelihood. Because the made-up points of fiat economy will not exist when the game is over, you must cannibalize your children in order to keep the losing game going for just a little while longer. This is the necessary factor in worshippingBaal and Molech. Sacrificing children, passing them through the jurisdictional fires of civil citizenship, ensuring their destruction for temporary prosperity.
The Israelites in the civil bondage of Egypt, as well as the repentant in the civil bondage of Herod the Great and Rome, understood the sinful nature of these practices and began to play a new game that did not involve enslaving their neighbor to their prosperity but rather forgave their neighbor’s part in the collective civil debt and more so loved their neighbor as themselves by voluntarily seeking their neighbor’s welfare through organized systems of charity and bonds of love, by establishing Christian networks that regularly communicated with and served the congregations, as we see in the New Testament.
They not only refused to participate in, but were kicked out of the social security system established by Herod, and so were even ineligible to partake in the benefits and democratic legislative privileges of Rome. They had their own Godly civil government as a called-out assembly, sanctified from the covetous practices inherent in being subject to human civil government. They even called this transition “the Gospel” and centered their Great Commission message on these principles.
In order for Pharaoh and Caesar to “let my people go,” the people must first let each other go from their registered and licensed collective debt, and begin to forgive each other of their promises to be surety for their prosperity, and to come together under God’s ordinances of faith, hope, and charity, voluntarily, to organize the Kingdom of God sought after by the repentant Israelites and early Christians.
Parents, love your children. Do not sell them into the morally and financially corrupt civil game into that which your parents sold yourselves. Cease from sacrificing your children on the civil altars of Baal and Molech for the empty promises of prosperity. Refuse to allow false gods to bless and incorporate your marriages into the rudiments of their authoritative world which entitles them to the fiscal and biological fruits of your union. Rather, seek to make King Christ your magistrate, for His burden is light, and summed up in the two greatest commandments.
The Kingdom of God is at hand. The fields are ripe and ready for harvest. But the workers are few.
When it comes to the subject of patriarchy, the great irony is that most of, both its “defenders” and detractors, are not only not living in an actual patriarchal society, but are promoting the judgment that occurs when a society is no longer patriarchal.
Because God’s order for society is holistic, a man has a natural political jurisdiction over his wife who demands of him protection in return. This order is also a natural protection over their marriage and children and, as an extension, is a protection of a free society. Likewise, a wife who has a meek nurture towards her husband and their children is what nurtures society. As an extension of her husband’s authority, she is a facilitator of the family’s purposes and liberty, and is a catalyst for societal preservation and sanctification.
These attributes are intrinsic to an anarchist society. Anarchism does not entail that either husband or wife are allowed to act of their own accord in some lawless chaos. To do so would undermine relationship roles and break down the order of the family, putting each of its members in danger of going into civil bondage. The husband must rule well in order to accumulate capital, provide that capital to his family, and leave an estate for his progeny. The wife must genuinely receive her political coverture in enthusiastic submission in order to capably strengthen the political unit of the family. This is a key element to the prosperity and welfare of free families, as is the purpose of God.
“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies [‘one flesh’, body politic]. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother [their jurisdiction], and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.” (Ephesians 5: 22-33)
This is a description of one divine corporation (matrimony) being compared to another divine corporation (the government of God). The network of servant ministers are called out from the congregations of families, and operate entirely in accordance with Jesus Christ’s ordinances, under his sole jurisdiction. When they act according to their own will, or the will of another, they are no longer Christ’s body and cannot enjoy the covering of his jurisdictional authority.
Christ esteemed these servants who walk in the pattern of his character and footsteps so much, that he willingly died and laid down his life so that they may witness an example of the sort of dedicated charity that was expected of them in serving the congregations of the Lord. So too are husbands expected to cherish their wives and lay down their lives in order to provide for and protect them so that they do not have to go under the providence and protection of civil magistrates.
Likewise, wives are expected to submit to the wills of their husbands as though they were his own body, because they are one body at common law. The political authority that a man has over his wife only seems like an oppressive and dehumanizing prospect to a bad wife, but if a husband selflessly loves, dutifully honors, and carefully cherishes his wife, a good woman will be humbled to act in his will as her husband is humbled to act according to God’s will. This notion of coverture is expounded upon here.
The only way for women to abandon the coverture of their husbands, is to go and become covered by authoritative government. In a free society, wives are under authority of their husbands. In a civil society, they are under the authority of human civil bureaucracies. To reiterate: in order to try and become “equal” to their husbands, they have to first become civil slaves.
To pursue an egalitarian relationship, they have to become a legally separate person from their husbands, which means they are no longer one flesh with their husbands. They are no longer in matrimony, but are instead married under false gods, by the power invested by the municipality of wherever through an adulterous contract between three parties: the man, the wife, and the civil father that gives them away in marriage and incorporates their union. “Marriage is a civil contract to which there are three parties – the husband, the wife and the state.” (Appellate Court of Illinois, NO. 5-97-0108: Van Koten v. Van Koten. 154 N.E. 146.)
“…When two people decide to get married, they are required to first procure a license from the State. If they have children of this marriage, they are required by the State to submit their children to certain things, such as school attendance and vaccinations. Furthermore, if at some time in the future the couple decides the marriage is not working, they must petition the State for a divorce. Marriage is a three-party contract between the man, the woman, and the State.” (Linneman v. Linneman, 1 Ill. App. 2d 48, 50, 116 N.E.2d 182, 183 (1953), citing Van Koten v. Van Koten, 323 Ill. 323, 326, 154 N.E. 146 (1926).)
In a patriarchal society, a wife is already equal with her husband in all the ways that matter. The man may have authority and final say, but as they are one flesh, her role includes participating in the decision-making process. The husband must be culpable for the actions made as one flesh, as Adam was confronted for Eve’s actions in the Garden of Eden, but the wife must help him make wise decisions which is necessary for them to take dominion over the earth together.
A truly Biblical marriage, in accordance with the principles of coverture and headship, is more egalitarian than even egalitarians imagine they desire marriage to be, and this definition of marriage is a necessary component to a literal Christian society. There is nothing more egalitarian than being one flesh. The complaints against this are only a strawman against God’s design.
Anarchism only means the preservation of the family and society by partaking in no social contracts with ruling men, where men must give up their rights and power of choice to Benefactors who exercise authority who thereby determine what individuals can and cannot do both without and within the family. This is the essence of statism.
Statism means giving the government the power of the state (the family), by rejecting its God-given liberty, equity and power of choice. Anarchism means that the family becomes ‘the state’ by keeping its liberty, equity and power of choice. Separating the government from the state is repentance unto anarchism.
The state has an order through the family structure. The government has order through a network of ministers who possess no equity, but only the desire to serve the state through called-out service and redistributing the charity of the state. These orders remain separate in a free society.
The family unit is the foundation for the state in a free society. It is patriarchal, but it is not brutish. When patriarchy becomes tyranny, the family fails and then society collapses. It is in the man’s best interest to husband and father well. If he does not, through sloth or pride or other sin, the efficacy of his family fails. And his family goes under the power of human government through civil relationships by legal contracts. There is good news, however. The Gospel of God introduces a message of redemption from the death of civil bondage to the life of liberty.
The same stone that is rejected by those seeking the efficacy of human civil government is the cornerstone that establishes Godly civil government. The first century anarchists who refused to go “under the power of any” but still became such a mountain that “filled the whole earth” by maintaining a free society through reciprocal charity and accountability in a network of mutual love and freewill association, were in stark contrast to those worldly Pharisaical politicians who enjoyed the fruits and pursuits of collectivism through social contracts, compacts, covenants, and constitutions that helped them realize their designs by taking advantage of the civil bondage of the people, making them fuel and surety for the political machine that perverts justice by handing out benefits and privileges in an attempt to exercise authority.
These politicians had maintained in their rhetoric that their machinations, under the authority of Herod and Caesar, the commanders-in-chiefs of their day, culminated in the “Kingdom of God,” and endeavored to sell the people into bondage under the “peace peace” of the Pax Romana. But it was the only begotten child of God, the servant-king and only rightful heir of the kingdom of Judea who could bring everlasting peace, and he did so only after refusing to place his authority under the authorities and jurisdictions of Herod, Pilate, Caesar, and therefore Satan who offered him the world in exchange for his soul.
In retaining his sovereignty, this rejected-made-cornerstone, Jesus the Christ, was able to free men from the anaerobic cycle of selling birthrights for bonded privileges and death, all physically sacrificed on the altars of human institutions which invariably eventually implode due to their slothfulcovetousness that enable pride, greed, and immorality, and return rightful authority to every individual, so long as they fulfill the two greatest commandments – visiting the orphan and the widow, and fulfill the Perfect Law of Liberty – keeping themselves unstained from the very world that Christ refused to submit his authority.
The Kingdom of the one, true God in Heaven is a literal reality. It is exclusive to a certain character of citizen and incompatible with all other kingdoms. The Kingdom is not made with human hands to be grasping at man-made edifices and institutions, altars and abominations on Capitol(ine) Hill that maintain a top-down ecclesial dominion, where the first is first and the last is last, the greatest is greatest and least is least; the first and last, greatest and least proclaim and pursue death from generation to generation. The Kingdom is made of human hands that work together to strengthen the hand of the poor and needy and build a network of freewill association and charitable practices that are living sacrifices on living stones, making up living altars to be the welfare of the people leading, from generation to generation, to life. This society is established from the bottom up, with benefactors who exercise titular authority, serving the people in incorruptible love and indefatigable fruit.
An unrighteous society is one that endeavors to chisel legal burdens on hearts of stone, whitewashing tombs with constitutions and washing only the outside of cups with man-made civil laws. A righteous society is dependent upon free men with the law of God written on their hearts of flesh who take personal responsibility for their neighbor’s welfare and righteousness, levying one against the other in the execution of justice and restoration.
Do not be fooled. Those who believe in the efficacy of human civil government, like all socialist infiltrators, are bloodthirsty tyrants at heart, no matter the soft front they put up as they met out their progress. Power corrupted Saul, Korah, Joseph, Solomon, Balaam, and even David. Gideon avoided it. Stephen died in order to avoid exercising it. Jesus condemned it outright.
God’s Law is of a different nature than the legalist systems of human civil government. Even the ones that try to make legal systems mimic some churchian interpretation of God’s law. God’s law is made for servants and bondservants, those who set their fellow men free from the heavy burdens of manmade legal systems through charity and establishing God’s literal kingdom by calling each other to repent of relying on human civil government. Legal systems are for the violent oppressor who take their worldly kingdoms by force, needing Benefactors who exercise authority to provide “justice” and welfare and policy and “health care“.
We should obey God, rather than men. Repent with us and believe the Gospel, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.
Professing abolitionists (used to) know that, if you want to evangelize the 501c3 culture, you do not imagine that reaching “the clergy” is an efficacious way of getting to “the laity.” It is pretty much accepted that in both instinct and experience, that reformation and repentance must be a bottom-up endeavor in spite of the power centers who have a vested interest in not just maintaining the status quo, but being the status quo.
The power of choice must be restored to the individual of the churchian culture so that they may take up their personal responsibilities to love their neighbor, be salt and light, and to turn the world upside down. Reforming their superstitious institutions, and not the actual people in intellectual and emotional bondage to them, will always amount to running on a treadmill and declaring that you’re getting somewhere.
But how ridiculous is it when professing abolitionists forget this hard-earned lesson and continuously endeavor to place their faith in gaining the ears of kings and rulers and Benefactors who exercise authority? These hearers of truth, but forgetters of the same, continue headlong into destruction, tempted by the glamor of political pursuit like rats in a maze, looking for an easy alternative to the Kingdom of God. The desire for power corrupts judgment. The increasing faith in magistrates debases minds.
Continuing to chase the Nicolaitan pipe dream like Balaam and Korah, even after repeat calls to repentance and self-examination unto doctrinal purity is reminiscent of another scene that professing abolitionists are used to:
Going into the ballot box even after being called to personal responsibility and pure religion is akin to the stubbornness evidenced in self-deceived mothers who continue to walk into the abortion clinic to murder her child after those outside point out that she knows better; that running headlong into destruction is not in her best interest. That there is a better way, albeit narrow, but that leads to life, liberty, and prosperity under God.
This article highlights the theological compromise and ideological subterfuge that darkens the hearts of men when God gives them over to reprobate minds. It makes short work in revealing just how pretenders at abolition, like the “Free the States” political action committee, are unfortunate “pro-life victories,” despite how the article tries to rely on the historical revision of Abolitionism. For those unfamiliar with Abolitionist ideology, it should be made clear that it is intrinsically incompatible with some streamlined political concept like “criminalization.”
While it is true that a few professing abolitionists have sought to wed the term with political pursuit in pagan kingdoms, Christ did not appeal to worldly governments to liberate man from the dominion of man and the effects of his own sin. So too, His followers, the abolitionists of the first century, did not surpass Christ’s works by the power of man-made political institutions. It is back to these two examples that Abolitionism is ultimately traced, disregarding any inconsistent or compromised political familiarity with the term.
With this background, we now turn to the arguments of Wendell Phillips (a close friend and colleague of Garrison for many years) against voting and political office‐holding by abolitionists. In a lecture delivered in 1853, Phillips expressed his deep distrust of politics and politicians in general. His remarks are squarely in the libertarian tradition.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten….The hand entrusted with power becomes, whether from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to the principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity….Never look, therefore, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom.”
Phillips opened Can Abolitionists Vote or Take Office under the United States Constitution? by considering two major objections that had been made in response to the resolution passed by the AASS in 1844 (quoted above). This resolution called for disunion and claimed that abolitionists should not seek political office or vote for those who do. As a result, critics maintained that the AASS was “a no‐government body” and that in passing the resolution, the AASS was endorsing total pacifism. Neither of these charges had merit, according to Phillips. From a belief that the Federal Government, as is presently exists, is bad, it does not follow that all governments are bad. The AASS “is not opposed to government, but only to this Government based upon and acting for slavery.” The AASS “has tried the Constitution, and pronounced it unsound.” (Smith, G., 2017. Abolitionism: The Schism Over Voting.)
“One way Hunter reaches out to voters is by collaborating with local churches. At that same press conference about SB13, two pastors were present to represent the over 100 Oklahoma pastors who signed a letter in support of the bill.” (Ibid.)
For instance, it is easy to take note how the founder of Free the States endeavors to “work with churches,” rather than calling them to repent of their ontological misrepresentation of Christian fellowship and worldview. This is because the anti-abolitionist worldview of Free the States necessitates institutionalism and is therefore compatible with the pragmatism of enlisting ready-made “religious” institutions, as if the ends justified the means.
The ends are clear: the organization lobbies for political change, conforming the power centers to be a vehicle for yet another statist agenda, which is diametrically opposed to calling lost souls to repent and be baptized into the Kingdom of God, which has no political affiliation with an American Kingdom or any other.
It should also be noted that the specific bill mentioned, SB13, would not have rendered abortion “criminalized on all grounds.” Not only does it intrinsically make provision for the “life of the mother” exception, (the very political excuse that has always kept surgical abortion institutionalized under the cartels that Western Medicine has made with state and federal governments since the late 1800’s), but SB13 makes no attempt to address the forms of abortion that each murder more children every day than surgical abortion does: hormonal birth control and In Vitro Fertilization. Even if legislationism were accommodated by Abolitionist ideology, the bills championed by Free the States do not even measure up to their own lip service.
It’s easy to know the difference between Abolitionism and its counterfeits. Where Free the States preaches some useless, incrementalist gospel of state sovereignty, as if unburdened state governments have any jurisdiction over the subject citizens of the United States federal government, Abolitionists believe in the efficacy of a network of adhocratic abolitionist societies, modeled after the congregations of the early Christians and of free Israel.
Instead of concentrating their rights and outsourcing their responsibilities unto idolatrous political power centers who necessarily and invariably subject civil slaves together in contracts, entitlements, and taxation, abolitionists maintain the higher liberty to retain their powers of choice, resting them firmly and squarely on strong, individual families who come together in faith, hope, and charity.
Where Free the States appeals to the American Constitution (another arbitrary covenant with another pantheon of pagan gods) to legitimize and direct their efforts, abolitionists appeal to the Constitution of the Kingdom of Heaven which is the only Law capable of keeping man free from the dominion of man, without Deist lip-service or nebulous platitudes.
Where Free the States agrees with every other political strategist, lobbyist, and 501c3 church committee that the false gospel of reforming American civil government (or fifty American civil governments) is a sound source for their perverted evangelism, relying on the socialist providence of false gods to exercise authority over their neighbor through taxation, and putting their faith in the unholy trinity of legislative, executive, and judicial tyranny, abolitionists preach obedience unto the Gospel of the Kingdom of God which rejects political dominion in favor of the tried and true service intrinsic to Christian fellowship.
They do not seek to replace the existing legalism of pagan kingdoms with their own legalism. They seek to replace the upside down model of pagan kingdoms with the better model represented by the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, by sloughing off the authoritarian capstone institutions built upon the shifting sands of sin and reckoning, leaving them to their inevitable self-destruction, and rebuilding from scratch a more natural Kingdom built upon the servant-shoulders of the cornerstone that is the bedrock of ages.
It is predictable to say that the Free the States organization is here to stay, so long as it replaces scripturally relevant agitation with friendship evangelism towards top-down political and churchian institutions, and replaces the sincere assistance of Christian communion with crowdsourcing, fund-raising, or “money bombs” necessary for lobbying, legislationism, and careerism.
That is the typical end result of incrementalism, after all: political sycophants turning conveniently insoluble social problems into perpetual sources of comfortable employment and lucrative salaries. There never is a bigger victory for Satan, or the Pro Life Movement, than buying out yet another “abolitionist” and welcoming them into the fold. Persecution never seems to intimidate believers into civil obedience, but corrupting them through temptation entices them more often than not. This corruption is a language common to all men. This is why abolitionists were once hated in their innocence by politicians and churchmen who were already corrupted, but are now so quick to sidle up to them once that innocence was lost.
The only reason why former “enemies of AHA” are so quick to now join forces with them when it comes to passing legislation to criminalize abortion is not because “the ideology of Abolitionism is spreading,” but because it has been compromised by those who call themselves abolitionist. While former enemies of AHA still reject AHA’s former grassroots approach of preaching repentance and scrutinizing “christian” institutionalism for failing to love its neighbor, they now yoke together with AHA after it has given up its pure religion, compromised its ideology, and adopted institutionalism.
The backbone of abolitionist culture always used to be moral suasion, including the five tenets and two modes in order to compel lost souls and recruit converts, with the express injunction to network them together in adhocratic abolitionist societies that resembled the Kingdom of God. Now most of the people who call themselves abolitionists are compelling lost souls to purposefully delegate their responsibilities through voting, and are recruiting converts to “pump up the attendance numbers” for political rallies, with the end goal of strengthening the archist bureaucracies belonging to the kingdom of Satan.
This is a sign that many professing abolitionists always secretly believed that it was the false gospel of statism, and not the Gospel of God, that could remove evils from society. Statism looks like submission to human institutions. Statism looks like reformation of human institutions. Statists of both camps reject practicing the kind of agitation committed by the prophets, and the personal responsibility of God’s Kingdom that makes the word of God to effect. This fault is not limited to those who would pervert justice through human institutionalism, but is a characteristic of all lost people enslaved to pagan societies. But, because “judgment begins in the house of God,” it is necessary to focus on the culture of the modern American “Christian”:
Patriotic Christians, in order to justify flirting with two masters, will express something to the effect of “We should recognize how blessed we are to live in a country that allows us to freely practice our Christian faith. They’re killing Christians in other countries, you know.”
Compromising between two kingdoms, these patriotic Christians do not realize that because the faith they are practicing is hardly Christian and mostly a sort of conservative Humanism, it is natural to imagine how easily they are tolerated by the surrounding culture. They can practice this compromised faith freely because it is ultimately innocuous. It does not concern itself with tearing down strongholds. It does not crush the heads of serpents. It does not toss mountains into seas. It does not endeavor to pour salt into the open, putrid wounds of their surrounding culture. It does not shed light on the darkness in which this American kingdom thrives. It does not agitate.
If Christian martyrs in other kingdoms were to take American Christians as an example to follow, compromising to the point of neglecting the Kingdom of Heaven, they too would live in countries that would allow them to practice their “faith” without persecution.
Do not be surprised then when American Churchians who have fattened their hearts and are living in luxury by making concessions with an unjust and wicked kingdom, are entirely willing to appeal to the police force of this kingdom to silence those standing outside of churches, pleading with churchians to be Christians.
How do you expect this nation to allow Christians to practice Christianity if professing Christians will not even allow Christians to practice Christianity? The truth is, Christians do not have the liberty to practice Christianity in this nation. But they have the responsibility to do so, by the injunction of the Gospel they claim to possess.
Professing Christians do not have freedom to call themselves “Christian” in the United States just because a temporal piece of paper that they call the Constitution says it grants freedom to professing Christians. The reason professing Christians in America have that freedom is for the same reason professing Christians in Nazi Germany had that freedom: “Christianity” has become a meaningless word, representing meaningless gestures, and dead religion, culminating in meaningless humanism, doing nothing but taking the Christ’s name in vain.
The innocuous reputation of those who claim the name of Christ, who do not understand the Gospel, much less believe it, much less bring it into conflict with much of anything is what secures these Christians the freedom to practice this very same false religion.
One cannot consistently say that they are thankful to a godless nation for their freedoms. They can, however, consistently say that they are thankful to the sin of Churchianity for their freedom.
Repenting of Churchianity will bring persecution and injustice against Christians – not freedom. The world hates Christians. America hates Christians. It hates them because they are called out, not of this World, not of this America. Not long after they start acting like Christians, America will express this hatred. The reputation of Churchians will not help to stymie that reckoning, because they’re going to hate Christians too.
“Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues, and you will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the Gentiles. When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next, for truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.” (Matthew 10:16-25)
The early Christians were persecuted, not only because they refused to take part in the civil societies under the Pax Romana, but because they sought to compete with it in the Kingdom and Government of God, which exhibited neither fiscal nor moral bankruptcy.
Real Abolitionism will endeavor to separate you from your idols. Including the comfort of manmade tradition or the esteem of celebrity theologians. You will have to choose between these things and the righteousness of Jesus Christ, for they are necessarily in opposition. You will even find Jesus Christ to be unworthy for most people.
When you elevate a job, profession, or role to a position of authority, disconnecting it and compartmentalizing it from the character and obedience of the person performing that job, profession, or role, then you are extrapolating the office from it’s officer. This is witchcraft and superstition: as if your mere words or rites or incantations or rituals or formalities have any real power to make changes in your life or serve you in any viable way.
Such incantations demand that a title of a man justifies the man, and not vice-versa. As if the power, glory, and pleasure of God can be fulfilled and controlled through divination by ascribing the right words (“pastor“, “elder“, “shepherd“…) to a man in a collar, or by association in fulfilling the right exercises (“baptism“, “tithing“, “church membership“…), going through the motions of churchian culture, copyrighted by an institutionalist covenant with false gods.
These distractions and busybody, counterfeit caricatures of pious “religion” are not subjected to the jurisdiction of God’s Kingdom. Their magicians and sophists and warlocks do not keep the commands of Christ and reflect the role of Biblical and historical pastors and elders, but rather something less productive than even the Pharisees. And, like the Pharisees, they are not even actually ordained in the Biblical sense, and will lead you into the bondage of public religion which provides for them their 501c3 covens and sustains their panhandling pulpits.
“Pastors” aren’t meant to be institutionalists that attend seminaries for formal education, so that they can make a profession out of eisigeting Scripture in order to lead an army of pew-people in ritualistic sing-song, while offering tax-write offs for their tithes in fiat currency. These men do try and model themselves after human civil government though since their 501c3 buildings are incorporated, not under Christ, but the attorney General.
There are men out there who have something to gain by being public “servants”. We call them politicians who receive public funds as a salary, through force by taxation, for doing little to nothing to benefit society. There are also men out there who have something to gain by not serving the people in any way. We call them “pastors” who receive “tithes” and send the people to receive their socialist daily bread from the “Benefactors” who exercise authority. These two groups complement each other and work together in a cartel; with public religion on one side, churchianity on the other side, with sophistry, nationalism, tax write offs and “parachurch” ministry to link them. You can read more about careerism as a convenient substitute for ecclesiastical roles and social virtues here.
And then there are those who have something to lose by serving the people and are doing it anyway. These are the men that threaten the livelihood and comfort and status and worldly tradition of the people in the other two groups.
The shepherds of the first century provided real, selfless service and practiced the pure religion that not only sustained an entire nation of Christians in welfare, education, healthcare and salty-bright holiness, but did so in humility and meekness without any positions of authority. They blazed the trail for an actual and literal Kingdom of God complete with rights, responsibilities, ordinances, government, and prosperity.
The far-cry clergy of this century maintain a deceitful version of the Kingdom of God. When professing Christians became slothful and covetous, applying to the false gods of human civil government for validation, protection, provision, and direction, the relationships of those “christians” and the characters of those pastors changed through pagan perversion. Their interpretations of the injunctions of Scripture were perverted in the process, starting a snowball effect regarding dead traditions and human superstitions that culminate in what we have today.
Modern christians have redefined religion to make it about going to a building once a week in order to sing some songs, listen to some sophistry, and eat their crackers and drink their juice. Sometimes they dunk each other in the baptistry. Going through the motions advertised by these cathartic, entertaining rites and rituals of 501c3 untrue and defiled religion will only leave you spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually empty, waiting to be filled by literal destruction contingent upon the inevitable collapse of a society in want of righteous, true Christianity.
Flee the silly, superstitious cult of Churchianity. Its thin veil masks its tether to the unrighteous mammon, and just like every incarnation before it, that mammon will sink like the Titanic, capsized from its own sloth, lethargy, covetousness, and hatred for its neighbor and the God of the early Christians.
Do not be like the lotus-eaters of the modern Lord’s supper, or listen to the siren’s song emanating from the pulpit. They will only confuse you and lead you to your destruction, albeit piously and merrily. Rather, repent and seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Believe on the Gospel of God, so that you may be redeemed from giving men arbitrary authority over your heart, soul, and mind.