Shocking Video: Grinding America Down

[Tom Wetmore]

He heard lectures by psuedo-communists in this country. You lived in the system. There is a vast difference from studied knowledge and experiential knowledge.

The reason this is all so vigorously debated is that this is the foundational philosophy of the emerging new Republican party. It is the bastion of the so-called Tea Party movement, the ultra-conservatives and the antigovernment tax protester movement which are dividing the Republican party. If the the political trend continues there will be a formal split in the party or the neocon ultra right wing, tea party elements will overwhelm the moderates and traditional old guard for the new Republican party.

I used to be a Republican but bailed out when I first saw sure signs of this drift which is now a lurching surge to the far right.

[teresaq]

From what I have seen since the 90's or so has been more and more the uniting of church and state with Republicans.

This is probably understood differently than I understand it.

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They desire to make our Lord the ruler of the kingdoms of this world, the ruler in its courts and camps, its legislative halls, its palaces and market places. They expect Him to rule through legal enactments, enforced by human authority. Since Christ is not now here in person, they themselves will undertake to act in His stead, to execute the laws of His kingdom. The establishment of such a kingdom is what the Jews desired in the days of Christ. They would have received Jesus, had He been willing to establish a temporal dominion, to enforce what they regarded as the laws of God, and to make them the expositors of His will and the agents of His authority. But He said, “My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36. He would not accept the earthly throne. {DA 509.2}

The government under which Jesus lived was corrupt and oppressive; on every hand were crying abuses,—extortion, intolerance, and grinding cruelty. Yet the Saviour attempted no civil reforms. He attacked no national abuses, nor condemned the national enemies. He did not interfere with the authority or administration of those in power. He who was our example kept aloof from earthly governments. Not because He was indifferent to the woes of men, but because the remedy did not lie in merely human and external measures. To be efficient, the cure must reach men individually, and must regenerate the heart. {DA 509.3}

Not by the decisions of courts or councils or legislative assemblies, not by the patronage of worldly great men, is the kingdom of Christ established, but by the implanting of Christ’s nature in humanity through the work of the Holy Spirit. “As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12, 13. Here is the only power that can work the uplifting of mankind. And the human agency for the accomplishment of this work is the teaching and practicing of the word of God. {DA 509.4}