Hiroshima
August 6, 1945

Nagasaki
August 9, 1945

What is "The American Dream?"

• Is it to work two jobs so that more than half of everything you earn can be taken by the government and given to special interests and causes you don't agree with?

• Is it to build a home and fill it with memories only to have it seized by politicians whose campaign contributors want to build a strip mall on your property?

• Is it a 6% 30-year mortgage with a fixed rate? ("Wow! A fixed rate!")

No. None of these are the original American dream. They would all be considered a nightmare.

What motivated the Founding Fathers? What caused them to risk so much -- their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor?

Answer: the idea of every American owning his own "vine and fig tree," free and clear, and dwelling in safety and peace, without being molested by princes or politicians, lawyers or tax collectors.

George Washington's Diaries are available online at the Library of Congress. They are introduced with these words:

No theme appears more frequently in the writings of Washington than his love for his land. The diaries are a monument to that concern. In his letters he referred often, as an expression of this devotion and its resulting contentment, to an Old Testament passage. After the Revolution, when he had returned to Mount Vernon, he wrote the Marquis de Lafayette on Feb. 1, 1784: "At length my Dear Marquis I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, & under the shadow of my own Vine & my own Fig-tree." This phrase occurs at least 11 times in Washington's letters. "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree" (2 Kings 18:31).

It is also a phrase from the prophet Micah, the idea of everyone owning property and enjoying the fruits of their labor without fear of theft or political oppression, of sitting peacefully under your "Vine & Fig Tree."

Few Americans today have heard the phrase "Vine & Fig Tree," but it sums up the American Dream as it was dreamed 200 years ago. A few highly-educated scholars and historians might recognize the phrase, but you would draw a blank from the "man on the street." A few people living in New York might have a glimmer of recognition. The prophecy from Isaiah, Micah's contemporary, is memorialized in a United Nations garden. Needless to say, our idea of "Vine & Fig Tree" did not come from the U.N.

Nor did any Americans in the past get the "Vine & Fig Tree" idea from the United Nations. And the interesting thing is, many Americans once had the "Vine & Fig Tree" idea. The Bible was better understood by most Americans 200 years ago than it is today. 

"Vine & Fig Tree" is a worldview.

Explore the "Vine & Fig Tree" worldview in more detail here.

The American Dream was lost when the United States was born.

The American "Vine & Fig Tree" Dream only comes about on God's terms.
 

A True American is a Christian

In 1892 the Supreme Court of the United States declared that America is a Christian nation. Not just because there were lots of Christians in America. Legally, officially, technically, constitutionally, America was intended to be a Christian nation.

A nation "under God," but not Osama bin Laden's god.

If you want to be a Peacemaker, you must be a Christian.

If you want to be a true American, you must be a Christian.

You're perplexed by these claims, because
 

You are a victim of
Educational Malpractice.

You have been systematically deprived of the three things that every single person who signed the Constitution would say are a necessary part of a basic American education. These three things are specifically mentioned in America's Organic Law. But you were never taught that America's Organic Law consists of the most fundamental charters of America's government. Now that you know what the "Organic Law" is, you still don't know what fundamental documents it contains. Article III of one of them says this:

Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent . . . .

The Organic Law of America not only recognizes our dependence on and duty towards God, but specifies where we should learn about our Creator (religion), the rights with which He has endowed us, and our duties toward Him and our fellow man (morality).

Today, our schools and government are "secular" (atheistic) and confiscating property from others without their consent -- armed robbery -- is the heart and soul of our vast "entitlement" social programs. You were cheated out of an education which began with "Thou shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not kill."

The Christian Religion and Christian morality were to be taught in public schools.

Even though Justice Douglas concurred in Engel v. Vitale, the case which removed Christianity from public schools in the early 1960's, he was honest enough to admit that

Religion was once deemed to be a function of the public school system.

Justice Douglas then quoted the Article above. Then he proceeded to ignore the law he swore to uphold, and removed "religion and morality" from public schools.

Soon after that, knowledge was removed from public schools, because when some kids have knowledge, that hurts the "self-esteem" of those who don't. Away with grades, away with knowledge! America's youth no longer score #1 on international tests.

The average teenager in 1776 knew more about what it means to be a great American, a great Christian, and a great Human Being than you do. Transport the average teenager from 1776 to our time and that teenager could figure out how to use your Blackberry, your remote control, and drive your SUV in a matter of days, but it would take you months, maybe years, to learn as much about geography, morality, history, religion, political science, virtue, and develop the habits of character which the average American possessed in 1776.

Reading the Bible is the first step in our year-long program to impose a colonial American education on you. If you already know how to read and write, the Internet now makes it possible for you to experience the same childhood education that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and John Hancock experienced. Their education made it inevitable that they would abolish the government -- a government which they described as a "tyranny."

You are not a Real American

A real American believes that the Declaration of Independence is really true. We have not just a right, but a duty to abolish any government that becomes destructive of our right to life, liberty and property -- in other words, a government that will not allow us to live in peace. If you believe the government has a right to kill us, enslave us, and confiscate our property, then you are a communist, not an American. And if you believe that the government has the right to kill, enslave, and steal from foreigners, then you are not a good Christian.

Most people living in the United States today are lousy Americans and are not Christians.

True Americans rejected an Empire which sent Red Coats to impose colonial rule. True Christians reject the Empire which sends predator drones to Afghanistan.

I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration,… peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.
— Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801) 

Nobody who signed the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution would consider YOU to be a real American -- unless the mainstream calls you an "extremist." But you will be an "extremist" when you finish this program. Because you are going to want to abolish the present government and make America a Christian Theocracy once again. You cannot support the Prince of Peace if you support an atheistic War Machine.

Men like Sam Adams and John Hancock were "extremists." They tossed tea into the Boston Harbor and called their government a "tyranny." You, on the other hand, are a zombie. You work your boring 9-5 job like a worker-drone. You say nothing when the government takes your paycheck for a Wall Street "bailout." You say nothing when your government kills more children in Iraq than it did people in Hiroshima.

The tax on tea, the "Stamp Act" taxes, and all other taxes combined added up to only 1% or 2% of the colonists' income. The tax burden today is 20-50 times greater than it was under George III in 1776. The Pentagon consumes a trillion dollars a year. This is theft. You pay your taxes because you do not want to be locked up in prison with a psychopath. You don't want to imagine the violence you will experience if you don't pay up.

So where's your musket?*

A Real American is a Christian

On May 2, 1778, when the Continental Army had emerged from its infamous winter at Valley Forge, Commander-in-Chief George Washington issued the following:

The commander-in-chief directs that divine service be performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in those brigades [in] which there are chaplains; those which have none [are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. The signal instances of providential goodness which we have experienced, and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.—
The Writings of George Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol. XI:342-343, General Orders of 5/2/1778

You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.
The Writings of George Washington, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol 15, p.55.

John Witherspoon was undoubtedly one of the most influential educators of his day. His students at Princeton University included one President, one Vice President, three Supreme Court Justices, 10 Cabinet members, 12 Governors, 60 Congressmen (21 Senators; 39 Representatives) plus scores of state officials and members of the Constitutional Convention. Witherspoon said

" . . . he is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not [would not hesitate] to call him an enemy to his country."[source]

Most Americans today are enemies of America. That is, enemies of the ideal that America's Founding Fathers fought for: Liberty Under God. The "Vine & Fig Tree" society.

To be a great American, America's Founders said, you have to be a Christian.

But You are NOT A Real Christian

Jesus Christ said it's better to be dogmatic and wrong than it is to be apathetic and air-headed. It's better to be a Nazi or a Communist than to be a "moderate."

I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Revelation 3:15-16

Americans are air-heads. They are more concerned with being accepted by the mainstream and the majority than they are pursuing the truth. The majority of Americans think of themselves as being independent "non-conformists" in some sense, and everyone conforms to this illusion together.
 

The United States is at War with America

Under pressure from the ACLU, federal courts have made it illegal for students in government-run schools to be taught that the Declaration of Independence is really true. Students can be taught that dead white guys like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson used to believe it was true, but public schools cannot teach that the Declaration really is true today, and that students today really should risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to believe and promote ideas from the Declaration of Independence such as these:

• The existence of God is a "self-evident truth"; 

• Our rights are the product of the intelligent design of a Creator, not random, impersonal evolution, nor arbitrary social convention; 

• God has revealed unchanging moral absolutes ("the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"); 

• Our violation or conformity to these moral absolutes will be punished or rewarded by "the Supreme Judge of the world"; 

• If we know and obey God's Commandments, we can have "a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence." (This belief is the opposite of "deism." "Providence" is the miraculous, supernatural intervention of God in history, changing the natural order of things in response to prayer. Not a single person who signed the Constitution was a "deist." Not one.)

Any government employee teaching or promoting these ideas in 2012 would be guilty of violating "the establishment clause" -- according to the ACLU and the federal government. They would be accused of attempting to "impose a Theocracy."

And of course no school will ever teach students that it is not only our right but our duty to "abolish" any government that becomes a tyranny -- such as ours. Public schools won't teach students that America's Founders believed that the most important civic duty any American can perform is abolishing tyranny one law at a time. This is done through a process you know nothing about: "Jury Nullification."

On the day after the Constitution was ratified, America was a land of "Liberty Under God." The Christian Religion and Christian Morality were taught in every school. Any intelligent person can see that America was a Christian Theocracy on the day after the Constitution was ratified. Get the facts here.

"But what about the 'separation of church and state,'" you ask. This is a myth. You have been brainwashed. 

Today the U.S. is not only an atheistic government, the U.S. is one of the most socialist governments on earth. This was true even before the recent Wall St. "Bailout" -- but especially after. The tax on tea was nothing compared to the $3000 being taken from every man, woman and child in America and used to bail out irresponsible Wall Street investors. And now there's "ObamaCare."

The United States is at war with the American Dream and at war with America as a Christian nation.

America's Founding Fathers would work to abolish the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama regime.

Tragically, America's Founders resorted to violence to do this.  We believe America's Founding Fathers were wrong to get their muskets out. Jesus said "put away your sword." The Bible says "pay your taxes." "Render unto Caesar." "Go the second mile." "Resist not evil." We are going to persuade you to become an anarchist, and abolish the government, but also to become a pacifist, and abolish it non-violently.

To be a Peacemaker and become a follower of the Prince of Peace is to reject the violent revolution of America 200 years ago, and also to reject the violence nurtured and imposed by the U.S. Empire today.

America's Three Biggest Mistakes
and why you must avoid them

America's Three Most Hated Words
and why you must embrace them

Huge Mistake Number One:
They emphasized "rights" instead of duties.

Americans today think they have a "right" to a first-class education, a high-paying job, wonder-working healthcare, and just about everything they want -- all free, of course.

This "entitlement" mentality is bankrupting America.

The Bible says to work six days and rest on the sabbath, but modern Americans want to play six days and work only if absolutely necessary. We are disconnected from our calling to work and "exercise dominion" over the earth. We substitute military domination for Biblical dominion through service. We all want something for nothing.

America's Founders did speak of duties (in a way and to a degree that public schools today cannot), but their talk about "rights” undercut and negated their talk about duties.

You ask, "What's wrong with human rights?"

If America's Founders could see America in 2012, they would see immediately what's wrong with "rights."

I’ll give you an example.

None of us has a "right to life."

We all have a duty not to kill, but life is a gift, and we don't have a claim on life. God wasn’t obligated to create us, fearing that if He didn’t, He would violate our “right to life.”

 

Only the Sovereign has rights.

 

George Washington understood that God was Sovereign, but he inconsistently flattered Americans with talk about their “rights.”

 

Today’s concept of “rights” is destroying America.

The absence of a sense of a Duty to God is also destroying America.

Has your mind been polluted by this toxic concept?

• Why the Concept of "Rights" is a Dangerous Myth

You must avoid this mistake because it prevents you from becoming a servant of others (Mark 10:42-45), as we'll see below.

This leads us to

Most Hated Word #1 - THEOCRACY!

Literally, "God rules."

Why is it I have a duty not to kill you? Where does this duty come from? There are many theories in the universities, but none stand up to examination or can be lived out consistently in practice. The best protection for "human rights" is a strong sense of duty to God. America's Founding Fathers were unanimous in the conviction that a nation cannot remain free if it ignores its duties toward God. These duties are spelled out in the Declaration of Independence: "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." That linked webpage shows pretty conclusively that America's Founders understood that phrase to refer to the Bible.

We want our nation to be "under God," not a government that thinks it is God.

America used to be a nation "under God."

That's why America has always been a Christian Theocracy.

Everybody at the ACLU and every anti-theocracy action group on the Left agrees that New England was Theocratic from the early 1600's and for a few generations thereafter. If you try to get the Shorter Catechism taught in public schools, someone will accuse you of trying to "impose a theocracy," even though the Catechism was in every classroom in every colony in America in 1776.

Before the Declaration of Independence was signed, every one of the 13 colonies was a Christian Theocracy.

Did the Declaration of Independence change this? Did the Declaration secularize America?

Of course not. If you try to get the Declaration of Independence taught as truth in public secular schools today, you will be accused of "trying to impose a theocracy." The Declaration of Independence from Britain is also a Declaration of Dependence on God.

A "theocracy" is where God rules. George Washington described God as "the ruler of nations." Notably, nations that are called "Christian Nations." England was one of those "Christian nations." So was America.

The Constitution did not secularize the 13 Theocracies. They wouldn't have ratified the Constitution if they had known or suspected that it would do to America what has been done to America in the name of the Constitution. Nobody treated the Constitution as a document that secularized the 13 Theocracies. Read about their actions here. See the links in the box at right.

America was a Christian Theocracy from 1600 to 1800 and beyond. In 1892 the Supreme Court of the United States still declared that America was a Christian nation.

A Christian Theocracy is not the same thing as a Muslim Theocracy. A Theocracy led by the Prince of Peace is different from a theocracy led by a god of war. A Christian Theocracy is a "Vine & Fig Tree" society where Christ is King in heaven. No state-church. No church-state. No state-priests. No church-police.

We're going to read about this during the next 365 days. Details here.

Continue to "Huge Mistake #2"

Huge Mistake Number Two:
They took up arms to abolish the government.
They overthrew the government by force and violence.

Abolishing tyranny is a good idea. But not with muskets and cannons. Killing a human being created in the Image of God just because that human being is an IRS agent and wants to take your money -- this is not a Christian thing to do.

Nothing could be clearer from the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles than that we must not take up arms to overthrow Caesar. Understanding these commandments will require you to make a complete turn-around in your thinking.

Violent revolution is always wrong, but getting out your musket and killing other Christians is even

worse.

 

When you enroll in PeacemakerCoaching, you'll study the Bible and find out that Jesus clearly taught that Christians should not overthrow even the most barbaric, violent, oppressive tyranny in history: the Roman Empire that imposed a military occupation of Israel.

 

Britain in 1776 was certainly more civilized and Christian than the Roman Empire, but Jesus and the Apostles firmly prohibited resisting even the pagan military occupation of Israel and attempting to overthrow Caesar by violent revolution.

 

And this was not for tactical reasons or considerations of prudence or the likelihood of success.

Violent revolution is contrary to Christian ethics even if it can succeed.

Followers of Christ don't kill their enemies.

They convert them. They pray for them.

They preach the Word of God,

     the Spirit bears witness to the Word,

     the hearts of the enemy are changed

     and they repent of socialism, fascism

     military occupation and totalitarianism.

When they repent, they resign their political office.

They end imperial conquest and confiscation.

They end their enslavement and conscription of others.

We preach; they repent.

That's the Christian goal, not blowing their brains out.

 

America would be a very different nation if we had obeyed our duties instead of killing for our “rights.”

 

Abolishing tyranny is a good idea. But not with muskets and cannons. Killing a human being created in the Image of God just because that human being is an IRS agent and wants to take your money -- this is not a Christian thing to do.

• Why the American Revolution (1776) was unChristian

Most Hated Word #2: Pacifism

If you're not allowed to resist an Empire, you're not allowed to resist lesser enemies. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus commanded, "Resist not evil."

Pacifism is clearly at the heart of being a Christian Peacemaker.

Pacifism is a critical issue in our day.

"Pacifists" are often criticized for being willing to stand by and do nothing while their wife or daughter is raped.

This is slanderous, a violation of the Ninth Commandment.

Pacifists continually meet objections like those of Samuel Bacchiocchi, who said:

It would be morally irresponsible to turn over one's wife to a rapist just to "keep peace."

This is a "straw man." Such critics cannot name a single pacifist who would do nothing to try to prevent or stop a rape. I've never met a pacifist (and I've met hundreds and lived with several) who would say to a rapist, "Here she is. Go for it. And peace to you." A pacifist believes in evil, and believes violence is evil. A pacifist opposes violence because violence is evil, and a pacifist wants to eliminate or prevent evil. A pacifist would take prudent steps to stop evil, avoid evil, catch evil off guard, and evangelize evil, but would not, as many non-pacifists seem to advocate, start out immediately with lethal force. Many 2nd Amendment zealots would pull out their gun at the drop of the hat. At least that's the way they talk. Probably they are a bit more rational. Like Bacchiocchi.

Here's a simple question that will prove you are a pacifist.

Imagine you are "Star Trek" Captain Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise. You are walking down the street of a planet in the Deltoid Galaxy with one of your never-ending stream of beautiful women at your arm, when a large burly alien with the tattoo "I AM A RAPIST" across his forehead jumps out from a dark alley, grabs your female companion and says "I'm going to rape this woman!" You pull out your Phazer™ gun and . . . here's the question:

Do you set the Phazer to "stun" and quickly put the rapist to sleep and call the proper authorities, or do you set your Phazer to "maximum molecular disruption" and utterly obliterate the rapist, ending his life?

When given such a choice, only a sociopath would choose annihilation or lethal force. Everyone else is a "pacifist." It's that simple.

What happens if you're consistent with this innate, conscientious pacifism?

Answer: you will begin to change the world.

In many ways the most violent world in recorded history.

Christ is the Prince of Peace. His vassal-subjects must be committed to Peace. The Prince of Peace commanded us to love our enemies. True Christians are willing to follow Christ to the cross (Matthew 16:25; 1 Peter 2:21).

But the religion of Secular Humanism (America's State religion) teaches vengeance. Modern Man believes it's better to make someone else die for you than to give your life for another. Entire populations are organized on the principle of institutionalized vengeance.

Most people don't want to be called a "pacifist," but more and more people are adopting a social philosophy which is very close: the "Non-Aggression Principle" or "Zero-Aggression Principle."

This principle is at the heart of modern defenses of capitalism. "Capitalism" means many things to many people, especially those who oppose it. Most mainstream voices, even "conservative" voices (e.g., Fox News) would not call themselves defenders of "capitalism," much less "laissez-faire capitalism." Most of those who openly call themselves defenders of "capitalism" rely on the Non-Aggression Principle.

The most consistent adherents of the Zero-Aggression Principle call themselves "anarcho-capitalists." More about both Capitalism and Anarchism below.

Continue

Huge Mistake Number Three:

After they abolished the government,

They replaced the government he abolished with a new one.

Yes, that was a mistake.

And you'll see why, and you'll have an alternative, after you read the next two of the five great works that we cover in the PeacemakerCoaching program.

Following the end of the war in 1783, Washington returned to private life and retired to his plantation at Mount Vernon. He spoke of his desire to live safely under his own Vine & Fig Tree, prompting an incredulous King George III to state, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

Despite his yearnings, Washington came out of retirement to preside over the Constitutional Convention and become President of the United States of America.

Was this a mistake? Would Washington have been a greater American if he hadn't? Did America really need a President? Did Israel really need a king?

Patrick Henry (“Give me liberty or give me Death”) refused to support the Constitution.

“I smell a rat in Philadelphia,” he said.

 

He was right. So was George Mason, the “Father of the Bill of Rights,” who also opposed the new constitution.

At first, Samuel Adams was an opponent of the Constitution of 1787. Eventually Adams agreed to support it. Patrick Henry never did.

Patrick Henry was right. So was George Mason. So were other noted Anti-Federalists:

Richard Henry Lee Robert Yates James Monroe James Winthrop

Mercy Otis Warren George Clinton Melancton Smith Arthur Fenner

One can also argue that Thomas Jefferson expressed several anti-federalist thoughts throughout his life, but that his involvement in the discussion was limited, since he was stationed as Ambassador to France while the debate over federalism was going on in America in the Federalist papers and Anti-Federalist Papers.

The Constitution, with its "separation of powers," "checks and balances," and theory of "enumerated powers," failed to prevent the rise of an atheistic tyranny.

Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay sold America on a Constitution which they claimed would prevent the rise of another tyranny.

They were wrong.

Every single person who signed the Declaration of Independence and/or the Constitution would take immediate steps to begin abolishing our present government if they were here in 2012.

And because America's Founding Fathers were excellent students of history, if they could see the history of the world from 1789 to 2012, they would become the most radical of libertarians.

They gave us what they called "an Experiment in Liberty," and America became the most prosperous and admired nation in history. Washington D.C. abandoned that experiment in the 20th century, embarking on an experiment in government central planning. Everywhere this experiment was tried -- Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union -- it left poverty and mass death.

Sam Adams would see that we need to abolish the current tyranny, and replace it with nothing but "the Invisible Hand" of 100% unregulated, Laissez-faire capitalism. 

As if greedy politicians don't.

But your moral concerns are valid.

That's why George Washington, Samuel Adams and nearly all of America's Founding Fathers believed America had to be a Christian Theocracy.

In his Farewell Address, Washington reminded the nation:

Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion, and Morality are indispensable supports.—In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. —The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.—A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity.—Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.—Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure—reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.—

Religion is a public, not just a private matter. You can't be a good American citizen if you ignore Christianity. Atheism is contrary to reason.

 Sam Adams said,

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

His cousin, John Adams, said:

[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Sam Adams wrote to his cousin John:

Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity. . . and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country. . . . In short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.

Letter to John Adams, 1790, who wrote back: "You and I agree."
Four Letters: Being an Interesting Correspondence Between Those Eminently Distinguished Characters, John Adams, Late President of the United States; and Samuel Adams, Late Governor of Massachusetts. On the Important Subject of Government
(Boston: Adams and Rhoades, 1802) pp. 9-10

On the day after the Constitution went into effect in March of 1789, America and each one of the 13 united States was a Christian Theocracy.

As a militant non-violent Peacemaker, you are going to join other extraordinary Americans in undertaking the task of abolishing the U.S. government and making America a Christian Theocracy again.

America's Founders agreed that our nation must be "under God" -- the true God, not Osama bin Ladin's God -- and thus a Christian Theocracy, governed by the true religion.

From a Christian perspective, two things characterize pure religion. They can be summed up in the words of the Apostle James:

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and
to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 1:27

This is why voluntary charities were everywhere in early America, and why welfare has now been nationalized by the State.
 

If they were logically consistent with their ideals,

America's Founding Fathers would not have replaced

the government they abolished with another.

 

Tragically, America's Founders were men of their age,

products of their times,

And they labored under the mistaken belief that

God commands men to form civil governments.

This was the third huge mistake they made.

The time has come to bury this belief.

It's time to put the Bible ahead of human traditions.

 

The government America's Founders created

turned out to be

more tyrannical than the government

they abolished.

They sold the Constitution to America

as a document of "enumerated powers,"

“checks and balances,” “separation of powers,”

and popular representation that would

prevent another tyranny from arising.

Or so they said.

Their Constitution failed miserably.

 

Every Single person who signed the Constitution

in a convention presided over by George Washington

was concerned about tyranny,

and worked diligently to prevent it.

But they would all admit

that today's government is

a greater tyranny

than the one they abolished,

and the Constitution is a complete failure

as a document intended to protect our so-called "rights."

 

The tax on tea in 1775 was three pence per pound.

The tax on gas today is ten times greater.

The total tax burden today is 20 times greater

than all the taxes imposed on the colonies

by Britain combined.

 

And the British government never dreamed

of using the tax revenue they collected to

fund abortions,

or pull copies of the Ten Commandments

off classroom walls.

 

Instead of declaring that we had a "right" to

"No Taxation without Representation,"

We should have said,

politicians have a duty to God
not to steal.

 

The British Empire was not as atheistic or

totalitarian as our government is today.

Washington and the Founders would be

horrified at our tolerance for atheistic tyranny.

 

Once you admit that some men have the right

to rule over others, on what basis do you stop them

from "going too far?"

This question has never been successfully answered
in the history of political science.

It certainly hasn't been answered in America.

Most Hated Word #3: Anarchism

An-archism = Opposition to Archism
Archism = Institutionalized Vengeance/Violence

If you oppose violence, then you reject the concept of imposing your will on other people by initiating force against them or threatening them with violence.

But that's what "the State" is. The whole idea of "the State" is to use force to accomplish some personal or social goal, or eliminate some personal or social obstacle.

A logically consistent pacifist is an anarchist.

Jesus was a pacifist, therefore He was an anarchist.

We were taught in our government school civics class that "anarchists" are bad. The dictionary tells us that the word comes from the Greek words a-  meaning "not" and "archist." But we were never told what an "archist" is.

It turns out that "an-archists" are good people. It is "archists" who are bad.

When most people hear the word "anarchist" they think of a bomb-throwing assassin who doesn't believe in private property. But in fact, during the 20th century, "archists" -- the government opponents of "anarchism" -- dropped more bombs and confiscated more private property in a single day than so-called "anarchists" did in an entire year.

• I emphatically oppose bomb-throwing
• I strenuously oppose assassinations
• I enthusiastically defend private property

But mostly, when people hear the word "anarchist" they think of someone who is against "the government."

• I believe in a well-governed, orderly society.

So why a defense of "anarchism?"

Because the greatest threat to a well-governed, orderly society, is the institution that drops the most bombs, assassinates the most people, and confiscates the most private property.

That dangerous force is none other than "the government."

Mark 10:42-45

The classic passage in which Jesus forbids us to be "archists" (and thereby commands us to be "anarchists") is Mark 10:42-45

But Jesus called them to Himself and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. {43} Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant. {44} And whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all. {45} "For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

The word translated "rulers" comes from the Greek word from which we derive our word "anarchist." Jesus clearly says His followers are not to be "archists," and that means we are to be "an-archists." In fact, God hates archists.

Archists attempt to convince us that when things don't go the way we would like them to go, we can resort to violence to change matters. Even if nothing will be changed by violence, that's OK, because making them suffer who made us suffer is called "justice." Archists thus believe in institutionalized vengeance.

Aren't "Anarchists" Lawless and Disorderly?

No. Archists are.

When the mainstream media uses the word "anarchist," they don't mean someone who opposes the vengeance, violence, and coercion of "archism." They mean someone who engages in riots, assassinations, destruction of private property, and creation of chaos and disorder.

But it is archists, not anarchists, who do the most assassinating, destruction of property, and creation of disorder. The picture of riots, overturning cars, bricks through windows, are acts of little wanna-be archists, who oppose one violent archist order only because they themselves want to set up a new archist order, with them in charge, with them disbursing violence, with them ordering the troops to arrest, imprison and execute the "capitalist pigs."

What the mainstream media calls "anarchy" is really "multi-archy" or "poly-archy." It is certainly not the absence of archist coercion and violence.

Archists are in rebellion against the True Source of Law and Order, Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. The history of the world and especially the history of America makes clear this correlation:

More "government" = more disorder and lawlessness

"Anarchists"

• believe that no person or group of people should "rule" over other people
• believe that no one has the right to initiate force against others
• believe that no person or group of people has a right to steal, kidnap or kill.

"Archists"

• believe they have the right to "rule" over others
• believe they have the right to initiate force against others
• believe they have the right to steal ("tax"), kidnap ("conscript") and kill ("smart bomb")
  (or to "vote" for someone to do it for them).

Embrace Those Three Hated Words

If they absolutely refuse to listen to reason, and simply want to insult you, you can only pray that God will soften their hearts so you can talk on another day.

But if a person insults you as being "unrealistic," "impractical," or "utopian," and still seems willing to talk to you and listen to your peacemaking advice, you need to be prepared to overcome their objections.

The PeacemakerCoaching Program will equip you.

But you yourself may have to open your mind to ideas you've been trained to despise.

As Americans -- as products of violent revolution, arms exporting, and consumer selfishness -- we have been trained to shut-off and turn-off ideas which conflict with national ideology. Here are the three issues which you must wrestle with in order to be a Peacemaker.

• Pacifism - Revolution
• Anarchism -
• Theocracy - Rights

The PeacemakerCoaching Program gives participants:

• a confident understanding of Biblical Christianity.
• conversational tools for engaging friends, co-workers, and complete strangers about Christian Reconstruction in a winsome and loving way.
• a community of like-minded believers for learning, loving and living out faith together.
• a road map for living out an authentic faith in a relativistic, postmodern world.
• opportunities to influence and transform the State, the Church, communities, and culture.

The goal of our program is not to dump a bunch of intellectual content into someone’s brain so they can then spew it back out to others and sound really smart. Our aim is to see people transformed from the inside out, to so inculcate them in biblical truth, and in how and why those truths matter in our personal lives and in our public institutions, that it seeps into their mind, heart, and soul and transforms the way they think, feel, and behave. This is the only foundation upon which effective peacemaking can occur.

The program centers around the daily reading of the five most important works in the history of America and Western Civilization.

1. The Bible
2. The Catechisms and Confession of the Westminster Assembly (1644-48)
3. Capitalism and the Wealth of Nations
4. The Myth of the Separation of Church and State
5. The Basis for Optimism concerning the possibility of future progress and peace on earth.

What does the Bible say about the issues that face America (A-Z):

A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I • J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y • Z • # •

 A

• Abortion is Murder
• How to End Abortion Without Government Coercion
• Rights of the Accused
• Activism, Patriotism, Protest
• Congressman Ron Paul on Abortion
• Adoption
• Affirmative Action is Discrimination
• Africa
• Africa Falls to Communism
• Blueprint for Afghanistan
• Against the Tide
• Costly Agencies
• Agriculture
• AIDS
• Why I am an "Alarmist"
• Alcohol
• Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
• The Abolition of America
• The Administrative State
• The AmeriCorps Fraud
• America the Beautiful
• America the Despised
• Amtrak
• An Anarchist for Congress
• What is an "Archist"
• Are Libertarians Anarchists? It's time to decide
• Animal Rights
• Antitrust
• Asian Defense Commitments
• Asset Forfeiture
• Why Atheists Should Elect a Theocrat

• Response to Samuele Bacchiocchi
• The 2008 Wall Street Bailout
• Exiting the Balkan Morass
• Banking
• Thinking Biblically about the Banking Crisis
• The United States is Bankrupt
• Banking and Money
• Order Original Intent by David Barton
• Attack on the Bill of Rights
• Media Bias
• Bio-Ethics
• The Blessings of Liberty
• The Blessings of Liberty for our Posterity
• Boards, Commissions, and Committees
• The Federal Budget
• The Fourth Branch of Government: Bureaucracy
• Marxism and Bureaucracy
• Bureaucracies Galore!
• Bureaucracy Highlights
• All Known Government Bureaucracies
• Some References from George H.W. Bush ("Dubya's" father) to the "New World Order"
• Buy Books Here

• The Cabinet Departments
• CAFTA - Central America Free Trade Agreement
• Campaign Finance, Corruption, and the Oath of Office
• Capital Punishment
• Capitalism vs. Socialism
• Carbon Credits
• Public Health - The CDC
• Central/South America
• Centurion/Wilberforce Links
• Restoring the Chains
• Early Education and Child Care
• Child-Labor Laws
• China
• America, a Christian Nation - Christ, the Root of Our Liberties
• Why Leaders Should be Christians
• Can a Christian Be a Politician?
• Can an Anarchist "Support" the Constitution?
• Christianity and Liberty
Why I Do Not "Attend Church"
• A City upon a Hill
• Internal Security and Civil Liberties
• Threats to Civil Liberties
• Scandals in the Clinton Administration
• Cluster Bombs
• The Myth of "Colonialism"
• Department of Commerce
• The Common Law and Christianity
• Congress and the Courts
• Congressional Issues
• Conspiracy or Consensus?
• Has the Constitution Been Suspended?
• How to Interpret the Constitution
• Libertarian Party vs. Constitution Party - A Response to Andrew Davis - "LP vs. CP"
• Constitution Party National Platform
• The Constitution
• Is the Constitution a Secular Document?
• Consumer Protection
• Corporate Fraud and Government Fraud
• Corporate Welfare
• Costly Agencies
• Creationism
• Crime
• Cuba
• Immediate Cuts
• The Cult of the Omnipotent State
• Cultural Agencies

• Exposing Self Deception
• The Declaration of Independence (1776
• Defending The Declaration of Independence (1776)
• Were the Founding Fathers "Deists," "Freethinkers," and "Infidels?"
• Budget Deficits
• Defense
• The Defense Budget
• The Delegation of Legislative Powers
• Mass Popular Delusion
• America: Democracy or Republic?
• America: Democracy or Republic? - part 2
• The Great Depression
• The Draft
• Digital Cash, Privacy, and Government Surveillance by J. Orlin Grabbe
• Americans with Disabilities
• Government Disaster Insurance
• Discrimination
• Racial Discrimination
• The Dominion Mandate
• The War on Drugs
• Prescription Drugs
• International War on Drugs

• Earmark Reform
• Easy Essays by Peter Maurin
• Economic Theory for the American Free Enterprise System
• Education
• The Founding of Education in America
• EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Electricity Policy
• Regulation of Electronic Speech
• Eminent Domain is Theft
• Property Rights and Regulatory Takings
• Encryption and Wiretapping
• The "Endorsement" Test
• The Department of Energy
• Energy Information2
• Stewardship vs. Environmentalism
• Enumerated Powers
• Bob Enyart Slanders Ron Paul
• Environmental Health: Risks and Reality
• Environmental Protection
• Magic, Envy, and Economic Underdevelopment
• Envy: Powerful Political Motivation
• Envy: Where the Voters Are
• Equality
• The Establishment
• The Establishment Clause
• The Ethanol Fix
• Euthanasia
• Evangelism and Social Order
• Executive Orders
• Extremism

• The Benefits of Failure -- Not "Too Big to Fail"
• No Tax is a "Fair Tax"
• False Religions
• The Family: Foundation of Society
• Fascism
• Abolish the Federal Government
• The Federal Communications Commission
• How Government Steals from the Poor Through Fractional Reserve Banking
• Abolish the Federal Reserve
• Feminism and Pornography
• Fiat Money | "Let there be Money!"
• Fighting Fires
• Financial Deregulation
• Fines
• The First Amendment
• Religion & The First Amendment
• First Steps to Restoring "Liberty Under God"
• Flag-Burning
• Foreign Affairs
• Foreign Aid and Economic Development
• The Food and Drug Administration
• The Fourth Branch of Government: Bureaucracy
• Foreign Policy: Overview
• Founding Presidents Not Christian??
• Free Exercise of Religion
• Free Speech
• Freedom
• Frontline Candidate Survey
• Fundamentalism

• Gambling
• Gas Prices and Free Markets
• Gender Discrimination
• The "General Welfare" Clause
• John Lofton Exclusive Interview with Jim Gilchrist
• Global Warming
• Globalization
• Abolishing the Government
• In God We Trust
• The Gospel
• Religion is the Foundation of Government
• Government as god
• The Nature of Government
• Government Tentacles of Atheism and Immorality
• The Great Depression
• Gun Control

• Habeas Corpus
• The Pursuit of - Not the Right to - Happiness
• Hate Crimes
• Health and Human Services
• Health Care
• Higher Education
• The History of Freedom
• Who Owns the Holy Land?
• Holy Trinity Church v. United States (1892)
• Holy Trinity Church v. United States (1892) - Separationist Arguments Answered
• Homeschooling
• In re RACHEL L. et al. Homseschool Case Filed 2/28/08
• Homosexuality
• Homosexuality and the Libertarian Party
• Why Homosexuals Should be Hated
• The Kuznicki Chronicles -- Homosexuality and the Libertarian Party
• Ron Paul: "Homophobe?"
• Hospitality
• House Committees and Subcommittees
• Housing and Urban Development
• Secular Humanism is a Religion

• National I.D. Cards
• Idolatry and the Ten Commandments
• Immigration
• Immigration: A Biblical Discussion with Chuck Baldwin
• Immigration - Downward Shift In Libertarian Party Platform
• Immigration - Legalized Immigration Does Not Destroy Our Culture
• Immigration Enhances Our Culture
• The Case for Free Immigration
• Immigration in a Division of Labor Economy
• Positive Effects of Population Growth through Immigration
• Why Immigration Laws are Unconstitutional
• Immigration Increases Capital
• Refutation of the Arguments Against Free Immigration
• Immigration Increases Our Technology
• Immigration Raises Real Wage Rates
• Controlling Immigration Without Government Coercion
• Impeachment of the President
• War and Imperialism
• Department of Interior
• Independent Establishments and Government Corporations
• India-Pakistan
• Income Inequality is No Problem
• Robert Ingersoll's Misunderstanding of the Constitution
• Inflation is Caused by the Government
• Abolish the Internal Revenue Service
• Insiders
• Government Disaster Insurance
• Intellectual Property
• Intelligence
• Interchange Fees
• International Criminal Court
• International Economic Policy
• International Monetary Fund
• Internet Liberties
• Government "Investments"
• Iran
• Iraq
• The Israel Lobby
• Israel: Is the State God?
• Israel: The miracle country turns 60
• Who Owns the Holy Land?

• Japan
• Jews in a Christian Nation
• Appealing to The Supreme Judge
• Judicial Usurpation: The Unelected Legislature
• "Just War"
• The Justice Department
• Why I am Judgmental and Intolerant
• Jury Nullification
• Korea

• The Department of Labor
• Labor Relations Law
• The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
• "Left," "Right," and the "Politically Homeless"
• Jill Lepore and the Myth of "the Separation of Church and State"
• What is a Libertarian?
• The Libertarian Dime
• What is the Libertarian Party?
• How to Become a Libertarian By Becoming a Christian
• Who are the True Liberals?
• Religion and Libertarianism
• Are Libertarians anarchists? It's time to decide
• If Liberty Mattered
• Liberty
• Liberty Under God
• Theocracy: Liberty Under God
• Now the Lord is that Spirit of Liberty
• Licensing
• A Word to Lifelong Learners
• The Right to Life
• John Lofton Exclusive Interview with Jim Gilchrist

• Media Bias
• Medical Marijuana
• Don't Send the Marines!
• Marriage Amendment
• Marriage: A God-Ordained Institution
• The Masters of the Universe
• Medicare
• Memorial Day 2010
• The Mentally Ill
• The "Works of Mercy"
• Mideast Conflict
• Missile Defense
• The Minimum Wage
• Missouri Farm Bureau Platform and "Liberty Under God" -- Table of Contents
• Banks and Monetary Policy
• Monetary Policy
• Religion & Morality vs. Socialism
• Mutual Assured Destruction

• NASA
• National Animal Identification System
• National I.D. Cards
• National Security
• National Service
• The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
• NATO
• The New Deal
• Some References from George H.W. Bush ("Dubya's" father) to the "New World Order"
• The Northwest Ordinance
• Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament

• The Oath of Office
• Can a Christian Be a Politician?
• Can an Anarchist "Support" the Constitution?
• 'Call to Renewal' Keynote Address | U.S. Senator Barack Obama
• Oil and the Moslem World
• The "Organic Law" - America's Founding Charters
• OSHA
• The Myth of Over-Population
• Positive Effects of Population Growth

• Pacifism: A Biblical Defense of
• A Pacifist in Federal Court
• St. Patrick and Irish Terrorism
• USA PATRIOT Act
• Patriotism: Loyalty to Country or to God?
• Congressman Ron Paul on Abortion
• Blessed Are the Peacemakers
• Persuasion, not Coercion
• Phillies 2008
• Planning: Free vs. Centralized
• The Myth of "Pluralism"
• The Myth of Pluralism
• A Political View of Life
• Police
• American Political Theory
• How Government Steals from the Poor
• My Message to Politicians
• The Myth of Over-Population
• Positive Effects of Population Growth
• Pornography
• Controlling Pornography Without Government Coercion
• Feminism and Pornography
• The Blessings of Liberty for our Posterity
• Government-Sponsored Prayer
• The Imperial Presidency
• Prisons and Punishment
• Privacy and Private-Sector Databases
• A Program to Abolish Harmful Bureaucracies
• Government Should Promote Christianity
• Property
• Prosperity: The Pursuit of Happiness
• The Profligate Legislature
• Providence, not Coercion
• Is Sin a Private Matter?
• The Expanding Federal Police Power
• The Pursuit of - Not the Right to - Happiness
• Interacting with "Pyromaniacs"
• Interacting with "Pyromaniacs" - Part 2

• Racial Discrimination
• Radical - Defending the Roots of America's Greatness
• The Reagan Revolution
• Recovery Resources
• Recycling
• Regulatory Reform: No Silver Bullet
• Religion and Libertarianism
• Religion is the Foundation of Government
• Liberty Under God Regulates Markets
• Reparations
• Unkept Republican Promises
• Republican Party Promises
• Limited Government and the Rule of Law
• Relations with Russia
• Victims' Rights
• The Right to Life
• The Myth of "Rights"
• What are YOU willing to RISK?
• The Great Lord and Ruler of Nations

• Politics as Salvation
• Salvation: Being Placed in a Large Wide Place
• Yasha - Salvation
• Sanctions
• The Scandinavian "Solution"
• Americans are Not Saving for the Future
• Terri Schiavo: One Libertarian's Observations
• Terri Schiavo: Part 2 - One Libertarian's Observations
• Army School of Americas Attacked Unfairly?
• Close the School of the Americas
• Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither
• Securities Markets
• Exposing Self Deception
• Security and Prosperity Partnership
• Senate Committees and Subcommittees
• The Myth of Separation of Church and State
• The National Duty to Not Be "Secular"
• Is the Constitution a Secular Document?
• The Myth of the "Separation of Church and State"
• The Myth of "Separation of Church and State"
• Order Original Intent by David Barton
• Is Huckabee Confused About the Proper Role of Christianity and Politics
• Jill Lepore and the Myth of "the Separation of Church and State"
• Religion is the Foundation of Government
• The Supreme Court's War on God
• Public Service
• Sexuality and Culture
• Is Sin a Private Matter?
• Social Security
• Libertarian Platform on Sex
• Socialism is Evil
• Speculators
• Free Speech
• Regulation of Electronic Speech
• SPP
• Urban "Sprawl"
• Standing Armies
• The State as Priest
• The State as Criminal
• The State Department
• The State vs. Society
• Statism - The Worship of "the State"
• The Eighth Commandment - "Thou shalt not steal"
• Step by Step to Utopia
• Economic Stimulus Packages
• Appealing to The Supreme Judge of the World
• Swords Into Plowshares

• Taiwan
• Property Rights and Regulatory Takings
• Tariffs
• Fundamental Tax Reform
• The Real Tax Burden
• Technophobia
• Telecommunications
• Term Limits and the Need for a Citizen Legislature
• Terrorism
• Government-Sponsored Prayer and Thanksgiving to God
• Theocracy: Liberty Under God
• Why Atheists Should Elect a Theocrat
• Tobacco and the Rule of Law
• Tolerance vs. Liberty
• Tort Reform
• Torture is Un-American
• Ozarks Virtual Town Hall
• Trade
• Trade Promotion Authority
• Unconstitutional "Trade Promotion Authority"
• Trade Sanctions
• The Freedom to Travel
• The Department of the Treasury
• Religion and Traditional Values: Foundation of a Free Society
• Transportation
• Military Tribunals
• How Much Red Ink in a TRILLION?
• True Religion
• In God We Trust
• The Truth about Government Spending
• Politics is a Tug-of-War
• TVA
• The Problem with the Two-Party System
• Tyranny

• The United States, Plural
• U.S. Postal Service
• U.S. Security Strategy
• A Nation "Under God"
• Magic, Envy, and Economic Underdevelopment
• Unemployment
• Unemployment Insurance
• The United Nations
• Unions: Government-Buttressed
• Implementing Utopia, Step by Step
• Usury

• Religion and Traditional Values: Foundation of a Free Society
• Vengeance Belongs to God, Not to Man
• Department of Veterans' Affairs
• Victims' Rights
• Victimless Crimes
• The Vietnam War
• Vine & Fig Tree: The American Dream
• Order without Violence
• Piety and Virtue
• Does Your Vote Count?
• Does Your Vote Count? - #2
• Who Creates Your Vote?
• Vouchers vs. Tuition Tax Credits

• The 2008 Wall Street Bailout
• War and Imperialism
• Is War Ever "Just"
• Reclaiming the War Powers
• Water
• RNEP: Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Welfare and Charity
• W.W.J.D.?
• Salvation: Being Placed in a Large Wide Place
• End Income Tax Withholding.
• NSA Wiretaps
• White House Agencies
• William Wilberforce
• World War II and its Lessons
• Worldview: Your Philosophy of Life
• The "Works of Mercy"

• Yasha - Salvation

• Zechariah's Prophecy

• Repeal the 14th Amendment!
• 171 Government Entities
• All Known Government Entities

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Our First Assigned Text:
The most important work in the history of America and Western Civilization, obviously, is the Bible.

George Washington read the Bible an hour every morning.

Then another hour in the evening.

America's Founding Fathers knew it well.

It takes 11 minutes a day to read the Bible
from cover to cover in one year.

Maybe you've already read the Bible --

but you read it as a religious book.

A "devotional" book.

A book to "inspire" you.

A book to help your "self-esteem."

 

We're going to read the Bible as

marching orders from General Headquarters.

We're going to read the Bible as a

textbook in political science and economics.

For example,

We're going to pay close attention to

what the Bible says about

inflation and fractional reserve banking,

which led the Framers of the Constitution to say

"No state shall make anything but gold or silver a tender in payment in of debts."

 

Americans in 1776 knew what the Bible said about economics, law, political science, and more.

Americans today do not.

Christianity is not just religious devotionals.

Christianity is a worldview that affects every area of life.

At left you can see a list of contemporary issues which the Bible addresses directly and clearly. During the next 365 days, you'll see these issues in the Bible like America's Founding Fathers did, and like you've never seen them before.

Pretty dismal story, isn't it?

Sure, God sent His Son, who died on the cross, so that some of the players can be forgiven for their rebellion and go home with God, but God's original purposes for man and the creation were thwarted by Satan, the ultimate victor.

The Bible doesn't teach this.

The Bible says our purpose as human beings is to turn a fallen wilderness into a Garden-City. The New Jerusalem is the "Vine & Fig Tree" society.

Hundreds of years before Christ, the prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, the birth of the Messiah in the days of the Roman Empire. That barbaric, debauched empire was destroyed, and the Kingdom of Christ began growing like a mustard tree, like leaven, like a field (Matthew 13). The Emperor Justinian began Christianizing the Eastern Roman Empire, and in the West kings like Alfred and Ethelbert made the 10 Commandments the basis of new legal systems. The "Common Law" began, with a Christian foundation, and eventually found its way into the Constitution of the United States, "a Christian nation." Though there have been ups and downs, the progress of Christianity has been undeniable -- at least to those who have been taught the facts of history.

Most Americans in the 21st century have not.

If you enroll in the PeacemakerCoaching Program, you will learn the story of the "Vine & Fig Tree." You will learn that the Bible says the purpose of the first Christmas was that "the knowledge of the Lord should cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." (Isaiah 11:9; Habakkuk 2:14). This has been going on for 2,000 years now. This is a wonderful story that isn't being told.

Some people sincerely believe that the Bible says that everything is going to get worse and worse until God finally destroys everything and then starts over. (Why He would want to go through failure again is not disclosed.)

You will read a different story in the Bible when you enroll in the PeacemakerCoaching Program, and have a coach pointing out things in the Bible that you may have missed.

Perhaps you're reluctant to pay your tuition for a class that teaches something very different from what you've always heard. So we'll give you the entire year-long curriculum. We want to make it clear that simply reading the class outline in a week, or even a month, will not give you the same result as you will have if you enroll in the PeacemakerCoaching Program and study a little bit each day, think about it, study more the next day, pray about it, and take an entire year to complete your reading of the “Vine & Fig Tree” story. It just won't be the same.

But you wouldn't be a good shopper if you bought a product without knowing what it delivered. So if you're doubtful about our agenda, here are two ways to survey the story of the Bible that you'll learn in the year-long PeacemakerCoaching Program.

The first way is a 12-day study entitled "The 12 Days of Liberty." It's modeled after the "12 Days of Christmas, which take place from December 25 to January 6. You've never heard the Christmas message like this:

• The 12 Days of Liberty
• Day 1: Incarnation and Liberty
• Day 2: I'm Dreaming of a Large Christmas
• Day 3: The Birth of the Anti-King
• Day 4: Defeating the Enemies
• Day 5: Peace on Earth
• Day 6: Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Capitalists
• Day 7: Kingmas: Christ = King
• Day 8: Let's Keep Christmas Commercialized
• Day 9: A Christmas Nagocracy
• Day 10: Christmas for the Lowly
• Day 11: "All Flesh Will See the Salvation of God"
• Day 12: The Christmas Millennium

This study is obviously not a review of the entire Bible, though many other parts of the Bible are reviewed besides the Christmas narratives in the Gospels.

Here, then, is a review of the entire Bible. Again, it is no substitute for the Berean model of searching the Scriptures daily. And reading them all in an afternoon is not the same as reading one a day and thinking about it prayerfully over a period of time. But just so you can see an example of the worldview of the PeacemakerCoaching Program, here are 95 Bible Studies, patterned loosely after Martin Luther's "95 Theses," somewhat-humorously called “The 95 Days of Christmas”:

Welcome to “The 95 Days of Christmas” | View

The Importance of Luther's 95 Theses | View

The Origin of These 95 Theses | View

Introduction: Taking the Bible Seriously | View

Thesis 1: Christ the Word | View

Thesis 2: Christ the Creator | View

Thesis 3: Creation, not Evolution | View

Thesis 4: Omniscience, Predestination, and Provide... | View

Thesis 5: “Self-Evident Truths” | View

A. “Vine & Fig Tree” BEFORE THE FALL | View

Thesis 6: The Biological Basis of Patriarchy | View

Thesis 7: The Dominion Mandate | View

Thesis 8: Patriarchy and “the Extended Family” | View

Thesis 9: “Vine & Fig Tree” and the Sanctions of the Covenant | View

Thesis 10: The Priority of Agrarianism | View

Thesis 11: “Vine & Fig Tree” and the Mountain | View

B. “Vine & Fig Tree” BEFORE THE FLOOD | View

Thesis 12: The Fall Of The Angels | View

Thesis 13: The Fall of Man | View

Thesis 14: The Purpose of Cain’s “Suspended Sentence” | View

Thesis 15: Cain’s City: The Autonomy of the State | View

Thesis 16: The Demonic Roots of Violent Tyranny | View

C. “Vine & Fig Tree” BEFORE SINAI | View

Thesis 17: The Post-Flood Absence of The Institutional Church | View

Thesis 18: The Patriarchal Power Of “Capital Punishment” | View

Thesis 19: Nimrod: The First Politician (Post-Flood) | View

Thesis 20: “Vine & Fig Tree” vs. Political Slavery | View

Thesis 21: Demonic Activity At   Babel | View

Thesis 22: The Division of The Nations | View

Thesis 23: Evangelism In The Old Covenant | View

Thesis 24: “Vine & Fig Tree,” “National Defense,” And Military Socialism | View

Thesis 25: “Vine & Fig Tree” and “Sacraments”: Circumcision | View

Thesis 27: “Vine & Fig Tree”, Precious Metals, and Money | View

Thesis 26: The Myth of The “Separation Of Church And State” | View

Thesis 28: Salvation is Political | View

D. “Vine & Fig Tree” UNDER MOSES | View

Thesis 29: “Vine & Fig Tree” and Resistance to Tyranny in the Early Days of the Old Testament | View

Thesis 30: As With All Angelic Activity, No State Action Is Coincidental or Random | View

Thesis 31: Ceremony, Ritual, Liturgy, And The “Pedagogical Law” | View

Thesis 32: “Vine & Fig Tree” and “Sacraments”: Passover | View

Thesis 33: Patriarchs And “Elders” | View

Thesis 34: The Need for a Pedagogical Legal Structure | View

Thesis 35: Angels And The Pedagogical Legal Structure | View

Thesis 36: The Promised Land | View

Thesis 37: The Temporary Character of The First “Church Officers” | View

Thesis 38: “Vine & Fig Tree” and the Temple  | View

Thesis 39: Patriarchy and Education | View

Thesis 40: “Vine & Fig Tree” and Oaths | View

E. “Vine & Fig Tree” AND THE RISE OF THE STATE | View

Thesis 41: The Character of “gods” | View

Thesis 42: National Security Without a State | View

Thesis 43: The Prohibition of Monarchism | View

Thesis 44: The State as the Answer to the Prayers of Rebels | View

Thesis 45: The Inferiority of Old Covenant Typological Mediators | View

F. “Vine & Fig Tree” AND PROVIDENCE : THE STATE | View

Thesis 46: Romans 8:28 and The State | View

Thesis 47: God’s Sovereign Ordering of Every State | View

Thesis 48: The State Serves God by Sinning | View

Thesis 49: The State As Sanctified “Servant”/“Deacon”/”Minister” | View

Thesis 50: The State Does Not Serve God Self-Consciously | View

Thesis 51: Only One King Self-Consciously Serves God | View

Thesis 52: Judgment of the State in Heaven and Earth | View

Thesis 53: Moloch-Worship and the Nature of Idols | View

Thesis 54: War, Capital Punishment, and “The Sword” | View

Thesis 55: The Throne of David | View

G. “Vine & Fig Tree” AND THE MESSIAH | View

Thesis 56: Statism At The Time Of Christ | View

Thesis 57: Kingship, Citizenship, and The Gospel | View

Thesis 58: The Civil Authority of The Pastor: Christ The Shepherd | View

Thesis 59: Jewish Opposition To The Kingdom | View

Thesis 60: Christ’s Binding of Satan | View

Thesis 61: True Power vs. Political Power | View

Thesis 62: Agrarianism As Environmentalism | View

Thesis 63: Christ’s Ascension to the Throne of David | View

Thesis 64: The Camaraderie of “Church” And State | View

Thesis 65: Fox News and the Coming of the Kingdom | View

Thesis 66: The Anointed King vs. Political Kings | View

Thesis 67: Jesus The Nazarene | View

H. “Vine & Fig Tree” AND THE EARLY HOME-CHURCHES | View

Thesis 68: Extremism Vs. Neutrality | View

Thesis 69: Sons of God and Pedagogues | View

Thesis 70: Judgment and the Church-Courts of Christ | View

Thesis 71: The Apostolic Church and the Spread of Power | View

Thesis 72: “Vine & Fig Tree” and the House-Church | View

Thesis 73: “Vine & Fig Tree” and the “Sacraments”: Baptism | View

Thesis 74: “Vine & Fig Tree” and the “Sacraments”: “The Lord’s Supper” | View

Thesis 75: Self-Ordination | View

Thesis 76: Salt and Statism | View

Thesis 77: Political Authority and Kingdom Citizenship | View

Thesis 78: “Vine & Fig Tree” and Resistance to Tyranny in the Last Days of the Old Covenant | View

Thesis 79: Taxation, Kingdom Citizenship, and Overcoming Through Suffering | View

Thesis 80: Violence | View

Thesis 81: Vengeance | View

Thesis 82: Creationist Anarcho-Socialism and Darwinian Archo-Socialism | View

Thesis 83: Pedagogy and The Powers | View

Thesis 84: The End of Archists: The Pedagogues Judged by the Church | View

Thesis 85: The Last Days of the Old Covenant | View

I. “Vine & Fig Tree” IN “THE MILLENNIUM” | View

Thesis 86: “The Millennium” | View

Thesis 87: “Ruling with Christ” | View

Thesis 88: Salvation as Light and Social Healing | View

Thesis 89: Edenic Restoration | View

Thesis 90: The New Heavens and New Earth | View

Thesis 91: The Unconverted In the “Millennium” | View

Thesis 92: The Last Acts of Earthly Archists | View

Thesis 93: The City of God | View

You need to go through the entire year-long program to appreciate these studies. You do yourself a disservice if you try to judge any one of the studies without studying the entire series. Real change will take place when you work through the entire Bible systematically, daily, prayerfully, thoughtfully, over the course of a year. The change in your thinking -- the change in your worldview -- will not come about because we forced you or tricked you. You will experience those "Aha!' moments when the lightbulb goes on and you're never able to look at the Bible the same way again.

The significance of most of these studies will become clearer after you become acquainted with the four other works that we'll be covering in the PeacemakerCoaching Program.

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This is not a UFO support group.

We're not here to debate arcane theories. We're not here to survive paranoid conspiracies.

This is for people who are open-minded; willing to listen respectfully to the ideas of Samuel Adams, Adam Smith, George Washington, America's Founding Fathers, colonial America, and the five great works that you will be reading in the next 365 days. You don't have to agree with every detail, but your goal must be to help yourself and others become:

  •  an extraordinary American

  •  an extraordinary Christian

  •  an extraordinary Human Being

If you're an atheist, your goal must not be to get Christians to renounce their faith, but to help them become more like Jesus Christ -- even if you don't believe He existed. You must agree to be in pursuit of the character qualities listed below.

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Biblical Character Traits

• accomplishment
• accurate
• alert
• amiable
• analytic
• anarchist
• aspire
• available
• bold
• calm
• cautious
• charity
• chaste
• cheerful
• compassion
• composed
• concentration
• confident
• contemplate
• contentment
• contents
• cooperative
• counsel
• courage
• courteous
• creative
• decisive
• deference
• dependable
• determined
• diligent
• discern
• discipline
• discretion
• earnest
• efficient
• emotions
• endurance
• energy
• enthusiasm
• expressive
• faithful
• flexible
• foresight
• forgive
• frank
• frugal
• generous
• gentle
• goal1dir
• goal2app
• goal_app
• goal_dir
• grateful
• honest
• hope
• hospitality
• humble
• index
• industry
• initiative
• interest
• joy
• justice
• kind
• love
• loyal
• manners
• mature
• meek
• memory
• motivate
• music
• neat
• non-violent
• obedient
• objective
• order
• overcome
• parent
• patient
• perfect
• persevere
• persuasive
• planning
• punctual
• purposeful
• reader
• recovery
• relax
• resolute
• resourceful
• respectful
• responsible
• reverent
• security
• self-assured
• self-disc
• self-educauted
• self-respecting
• self-starting
• sensitive
• sincere
• speech
• success
• thorough
• thrifty
• tolerant
• touch
• truth
• virtue
• wise
• work
• babylon

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Each day as we read the Bible we're going to focus on things that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Samuel Adams focused on in their studies: virtue, morality and character.

 

Not the kind of character that makes a person a prissy priest or clergyman.

 

But the kind of character than can create entrepreneurs, CEOs, and heroes; build businesses and hospitals.

 

We'll study the character traits you see at left, and we will begin developing them into habits in our own lives.

We'll discover a program to develop extraordinary habits in the next great work we're going to read.

Thomas Jefferson, despite his criticisms of clergy and ecclesiastical corruption, would want to be remembered as one who lived and encouraged a life of virtue and morality. He would not take credit for the army of people who champion "separation of church and state" as a cloak for selfish immorality and a lack of virtue.

The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society, He has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus, and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in his discourses. — TJ to James Fishback, Sept 27, 1809, Bergh 12:315. (1809.)

Jefferson had written in 1819, "I never go to bed without an hour or half an hour's reading of something moral, whereon to ruminate in the intervals of sleep" -- to which Randall adds, "The book oftenest chosen . . . was a collection of extracts from the Bible." Henry Wilder Foote, "Introduction," The Jefferson Bible, 23

He was passionately devoted to the gospel of Jesus, which stirred him to the depths of his being and was the most powerful motive force in his life. Donald S. Harrington, "Foreword," The Jefferson Bible, 11

Speaking of "the widespread denunciation of him by his political opponents as an anti-Christian infidel or atheist," Foote observes,

[I]t is one of the minor ironies of history that such slanders should have been so generally and so long believed about the man whose knowledge of and admiration for the teachings of Jesus have never been equaled by any other President. Henry Wilder Foote, "Introduction," The Jefferson Bible, 18

It was not, however, to be understood that instruction in religious opinion and duties was meant to be precluded by the public authorities as indifferent to the interests of society. On the contrary, the relations which exist between man and his Maker and the duties resulting from those relations are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation. -- TJ, Report to the Visitors [school boards] Oct 7, 1822

America's Founders were agreed that religion and morality were an essential part of a public school education.

This is because good character, which is the embodiment of religion and morality, was essential to liberty and a free Republic. If everyone thinks he is his own god, and can steal, enslave, or kill anyone who stands in his way, you cannot have ordered liberty. People of bad character will clamor for a strong government to take vengeance against other people of bad character. Soon you have totalitarianism and lawlessness.

Read the Founders on the connection between morality and liberty here.

Continue to Westminster Standards

Over the course of 365 days, you'll begin internalizing Christianity as a worldview.

You will begin applying Christian principles to every area of your life. Christianity will no longer be a private belief for you, but a public matter. You will become your own "City upon a Hill."

"In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, that is Mine!"

If Christianity is relegated to Sunday school, then Monday through Friday we can deny justice, infringe on liberty, and destroy the life, liberty and property of others. It is because the Westminster Standard viewed life as a whole, all of it under the jurisdiction of God and His Laws and morality, that America became prosperous and admired. Americans Christianized business, science, the arts, and every area of life. This made America a great place to live.

Consider your alternatives:

An atheistic Soviet Union

Buddhist Sri Lanka

Most people would rather live in America, a Christian nation.

It was Calvinism that shaped America.

The second
most popular work in colonial America
(after the Bible)

was the Westminster Standards.

This comprised a Confession of Faith, a Larger Catechism and a Smaller Catechism.

The Smaller Catechism was for children. The Larger Catechism for teens. Both exceed the depth of most seminary graduates in the 21st century.

At a time when the total population of America was only four million people, it is estimated that some five million copies of the "Westminster Shorter Catechism" were available in the colonies. Historian Richard Gardiner writes:

The Westminster Catechism was not only a central part of the colonial educational curriculum, learning it was required by law. Each town employed an officer whose duty was to visit homes to hear the children recite the Catechism. The primary schoolbook for children, the New England Primer, included the Catechism. Daily recitations of it were required at these schools. Their curriculum included memorization of the Westminster Confession and the Westminster Larger Catechism. There was not a person at Independence Hall in 1776 who had not been exposed to it, and most of them had it spoon fed to them before they could walk.

It takes approximately 11 minutes per day to read through the Bible from cover to cover. It only takes a couple of minutes a day to read through the Westminster Catechisms and Confession in a year. They were written around 1645 and the drafters unequivocally opposed our brand of political libertarianism. But they believed that God is God, and denied that the State is God, a necessary first step on your road to becoming an extraordinary American, an extraordinary Christian, and an extraordinary human being..

And from the Westminster Standards we're going to discover a program that will rapidly and profoundly change our personal character and habits.

George Washington would see that we need to abolish the current tyranny, and replace it with nothing but "the Invisible Hand" of 100% unregulated, Laissez-faire capitalism.

You're thinking: "Those greedy capitalists will exploit the poor!"

As if greedy politicians don't.

But your moral concerns are valid.

That's why George Washington and America's Founding Fathers believed America had to be a Christian Theocracy.

That's right. Theocracy. This is

The third most important work in the

history of America and Western Civilization

It is not a single book, but a concept.

It’s a concept that transformed barbaric pagan

Empires into limited governments and a

Land of liberty:

And yet for all the good it has done the world, the word is hated even by many Christians.

 

That word is
Theocracy

America became the most prosperous and admired nation in history because it was a nation "under God." In short, America was a Christian Theocracy. Today the word "theocracy" conjures up images of Islamic terrorists and mullahs. People think of "theocracy" as a police state governed by priests. This is inaccurate. The word "theocracy" comes from two Greek words, theos, meaning "God," and a Greek word meaning "rule." A theocracy where God rules is a nation "under God." America has always been known as "one nation under God," and therefore America has always been a Christian Theocracy.

But there are good theocracies and there are bad ones. A nation can be attempting to be a Christian Theocracy and do a very poor job of it. We do not believe that a good Christian Theocracy is a police state. We believe a good Christian Theocracy is one where all the priests and princes have resigned and gotten real jobs where they serve others.

Only weeks later, Washington signed his first major federal bill [30] - the Northwest Ordinance, drafted concurrently with the creation of the First Amendment. [31] That act stipulated that for a territory to become a State, the "schools and the means of education" in that territory must encourage the "religion, morality, and knowledge" that was "necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind." [32] Conforming to this requirement, numerous subsequent State constitutions included that clause, [33] and it still appears in State constitutions today. [34] Furthermore, that law is listed in the current federal code, along with the Constitution, the Declaration, and the Articles of Confederation, as one of America's four "organic" or foundational laws. [35]

Washington would be appalled that today's Supreme Court says it is "unconstitutional" for children in public schools to be taught that Christianity is "necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind." Every single person who signed the Constitution believed that it was, and intended for government to endorse that idea.

In his Inaugural Address, Washington, speaking publicly and officially as the new President of the United States, said:

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to the Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.
      In tendering this homage to the great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And, in the revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with a humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.

President Washington could not have said these things to children in a public school classroom. (And not just because American public school students are generally illiterate and wouldn't understand half of what colonial teenagers would have understood.)

Is the Constitution a Secular Document?

Any government that will not acknowledge itself to be under God is a government that believes it is God.

• Holy Trinity Church v. United States (1892)
  • The United States Supreme Court officially recognizes that America is a Christian nation.
• Promote Christianity
  • The Reason Why America was Founded
• The "Organic Law" - America's Founding Charters
  • Public schools should teach that Christianity is necessary for good government
• The Northwest Ordinance
  • A foundational charter of American government that recognizes that religion and morality are essential for good government
• "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"
  • The Bible, the Laws of God
• The Ten Commandments
• "Liberty Under God" Means "Theocracy"
  • It is government's duty "to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God . . . the great Lord and Ruler of Nations"
• A Nation "Under God"
  • This phrase pervades American history; it was not invented in the 1950's
• "A Firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence"
• The Christian Roots of Education in America
• Why America's Leaders Should be Christians
• The National Duty to Not Be "Secular"
• Religion and Traditional Values: Foundation of a Free Society
• The Blessings of Liberty
  • they come from God
• Christianity and Liberty
• America, a Christian Nation - Christ, the Root of Our Liberties
• A City upon a Hill
• Government-Sponsored Prayer
• "Founding Presidents Not Christian"??
  • A response to a columnist who repeats the "urban legend" that America's Founding Fathers were not Christian
• The First Amendment
• The Establishment Clause
• Free Exercise of Religion & The First Amendment
• "The Separation of Church and State"
  • A look at the prevailing myth
• "True Religion"
  • Not all religions are equal
• "In God We Trust"
• Piety and Virtue
• Missouri Farm Bureau - Religious Life
• America the Beautiful
  • This beautiful anthem is actually a national prayer
• Micah's Vine & Fig Tree Vision: The American Dream
• Creationism
• William Wilberforce
• Worldview: Your Philosophy of Life
• W.W.J.D.?
• Giving Thanks to God
  • A National Tradition
• Religion & Morality vs. Socialism
• The "Works of Mercy"
• Jill Lepore and the Myth of "the Separation of Church and State"
• Fundamentalism
• Western Civilization is Christian Civilization

False Religions

• False Religions
• Statism - The Worship of "the State"
• Politics as Salvation
  • The State as Messiah
• The Cult of the Omnipotent State
• The State as Priest -- The Myth of "Pluralism"
  • America's New religion?
• The Supreme Court's War on God
• Were the Founding Fathers "Deists," "Freethinkers," and "Infidels?"

• The Gospel of Judas and the Gospel of Bush
• Good Friday
• An Al-Queda Easter
• Are Unbelievers Believable?
• Christianity and Capitalism
• Is it a SIN to vote for Roy Blunt?
• Elton John: "Ban religion"
• St. Patrick: Christian Libertarian
• Jerry Falwell, 1933-2007
• Would Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?
• Phillies, Falwell, and Goldwater
• Conservative Christians for Hillary
• Advertising under God
• Providence and "The National Malaise"
• Stem Cells Endowed by Their Creator
• 1776-Style Theocracy
• Hindu Prayers in the Senate
• No Free Exercise of Religion
• "Do Violence to No Man"
• Conservative Christians Reject Huckabee
• Wilberforce: Role Model for Anarchists
• Thanksgiving 2007
• The 12 Days of Liberty
• Secularist Questions
• I've often wondered myself
• An Uninspiring Easter Message
• Battle of the Cults
• Who Owns the Holy Land?
• Slavery, Capital Punishment, and the Bible
• Cult Threatens Religious Liberty and Property Rights
• Worldview
• Why Atheists Should Elect a Christian Theocrat
• Sacred Civil Institutions
• Non-Denominational Theocracy
• Give Thanks to Our Redeemer - George Washington
• Celebrating Thanksgiving in America
• Give Thanks for Our Christian Theocracy
• "One Nation Under God"
• The Myth of the Separation of Church and State
• Two Prayers
• Obama's USSA
• More on the Myth of a "Secular Constitution"

You may have noticed many of the links on this webpage come from my campaign for U.S. Congress. This is a hobby of mine. It's a great vehicle to promote non-aggression. I get to be on radio and TV because I'm a candidate, even though as a radical pacifist, I would not be permitted to take the oath to "support the Constitution" in the unlikely event that I won an election.

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Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion, and Morality are indispensable supports.—In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men and Citizens. —The mere Politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them.—A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity.—Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.—Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure—reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.—

Washington - indisputably a constitutional expert - declared that religion and morality were inseparable from government, and that no true patriot, whether politician or clergyman, would attempt to weaken the relationship between government and the influence of religion and morality.

These statements clearly violate the modern-day Supreme Court's delusion that the government must be "separate" from religion, that believers not be favored over unbelievers, and the Humanist myth that religion be kept private.

To the extent that you believe in the modern myth of "separation of church and state," you are an inferior American, and George Washington would be disgusted with you. The program at PeacemakerCoaching will help you become a Christian Theocrat like George Washington and the rest of America's Founding Fathers.

Sam Adams said,

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

His cousin, John Adams, said:

[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Sam Adams wrote to his cousin John:

Let divines and philosophers, statesmen and patriots, unite their endeavors to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of men with the importance of educating their little boys and girls, of inculcating in the minds of youth the fear and love of the Deity. . . and, in subordination to these great principles, the love of their country. . . . In short, of leading them in the study and practice of the exalted virtues of the Christian system.

Letter to John Adams, 1790, who wrote back: "You and I agree." Four Letters: Being an Interesting Correspondence Between Those Eminently Distinguished Characters, John Adams, Late President of the United States; and Samuel Adams, Late Governor of Massachusetts. On the Important Subject of Government (Boston: Adams and Rhoades, 1802) pp. 9-10

This is exactly what PeacemakerCoaching will do for you. You can compensate for what the federal government denied you as a little boy or girl by enrolling in PeacemakerCoaching.

On the day after the Constitution went into effect in March of 1789, America as a whole and each one of the 13 united States was a Christian Theocracy.

A Christian Theocracy seeks to give God all the glory. It's hard to see that God rules today when the State claims to be the Messiah.

Americans today have been misled by the myth of "the Separation of Church and State." This mythical idea -- not found anywhere in the Constitution -- has come to mean the separation of God and State, with God being separated into the private world of fantasy and imagination, and the State having omnipotent power in "the real world."

In 1892 the United States Supreme Court unanimously declared that America was "a Christian nation." The Court went back to the discovery of North America by Columbus, and summarized all the official legal charters and documents that acknowledged our duty to God and created the American Theocracy, the most prosperous and admired nation in history. In 1989 the Court said, "This Court  squarely has rejected the proposition that the First Amendment is to be interpreted in light of any favoritism for Christianity that may have existed among the Founders of the Republic. "May have?" America is no longer a nation under God. As a result, America -- once prosperous and admired --  is now bankrupt and despised.

The great conflict in Western Civilization today is whether our world will become

•	an Islamic theocracy,
•	an atheistic theocracy (where man thinks he is his own god, but the omnipotent secular State wields total, crushing power),
•	or whether America will again be a "City upon a Hill," persuading the world to become a peaceful, global Christian Theocracy -- the kind described by the Prophet Micah.

The third reading assignment will be the history of Christian Theocracy and "Western Civilization."

Hundreds of years before Christ, the prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, the birth of the Messiah in the days of the Roman Empire. That empire was destroyed, and Christian Theocracy began growing. The Emperor Justinian began Christianizing the Eastern Roman Empire, and in the West kings like Alfred and Ethelbert made the 10 Commandments the basis of new legal systems. The "Common Law" began, with a Christian foundation, and eventually found its way into the Constitution of the United States, "a Christian nation." No one book adequately chronicles this history, so we will read from a number of books that try:

           

Excerpts from these books are freely available on the Internet. Only one of the authors agrees with our radical conclusions (described below), but their arguments lead to our conclusions if consistently held.

There are two stories that need to be told:

The first is how Christianity destroyed the slavery and paganism of the Roman Empire and inaugurated "Liberty Under God," the foundation of "Western Civilization"   (476 A.D.- 1517 A.D.).

The second story is the story of America, and how

• Calvinism created America  (1517-1787)
• America apostatized into an atheistic empire  (1787-2012)
• and -- hopefully -- how America repented and became an anarchist-theocracy (2012 - ????).

To begin this second story, George Washington would assign the reading of the Supreme Court's opinion in the 1892 Decision Holy Trinity Church vs. The United States and all the historic legal documents cited by the Court.

The fourth book
of the five most important books in the history of America and Western Civilization is about

Capitalism

Capitalism or socialism?

This is the second great question of our age. It is a derivative of the first great question, Theonomy or Automony?

It's all about violence.

If you want to help the poor, can you justify the use of government violence, or must you rely on acts that come from the heart, voluntarily, spontaneously, or as a result of persuasion, education, enlightenment, and faith?

The Wealth of Nations

Many Americans today believe that the government produces wealth. Others want the government to redistribute wealth ("spread the wealth") to special interests -- the most special of all interests, of course, being "ME!"  Such people wouldn't even entertain the idea of abolishing the current tyranny, much less actively work toward that goal, because that which America's Founders described as "tyranny" many in our day would praise as a big benevolent brother. "The government can give us whatever we want if we just vote the most generous and compassionate politicians into office," they believe.

Those who disagree or resist will be wiretapped, arrested, fined, imprisoned, or executed.

Adam Smith would be appalled at such ignorance and immorality. Smith taught ethics at the University of Glasgow and wrote a Theory of Moral Sentiments. In the same year as the Declaration of Independence was written (1776), Adam Smith wrote a book entitled An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations, widely regarded as the first treatise on capitalism.

Capitalism is unquestionably one of the most important features of Western Civilization. Capitalist nations enjoy health and prosperity. Socialist nations enjoy sickness and poverty, to the extent they do not receive foreign aid or the fruits of capitalist nations.

"Capitalism" is the opposite of "socialism."

Socialist nations can't spread the wealth, they can only spread the poverty by compulsion and threats of violence. Socialism -- government intervention in the economy -- is not just inefficient and wasteful, it is immoral.

Smith's Wealth of Nations is not easy reading, but Samuel Adams and George Washington would insist that no true American can be without a basic understanding of capitalism and the laws of a free economy. Fortunately, in our day a more recent treatise on capitalism as been written which is wonderfully illuminating and readable:  Capitalism by Prof. George Reisman.

George Washington would assign Reisman's text to any American who wanted to become an extraordinary American. Consistent socialism is maximum government. We believe consistent capitalism is the exact opposite.

If you thought "Theocracy" was controversial, please have a seat. The odds are good that you are a victim of

The Biggest Government Lie in all of Human History.

George Washington was the father of a nation "under God" -- a Christian Theocracy. He was also the father of nation of "LIBERTY UNDER GOD." And if he could see the progress (and regress) of the last 200 years, he would advocate

100% pure laissez-faire capitalism

You might not be offended at that idea. Yet.

It means the absence of all socialism. Every trace.

If you think about that for a minute or two, you'll realize that another word for the complete absence of socialism is "anarchism."

That word is explosive. That's because you've been brainwashed. That's because you are a victim of

The Biggest Government Lie in all of Human History.

Pure capitalism is anarcho-capitalism, the absence of government force. Prof. Reisman disagrees with us, but his book will help us prove our point with credibility and impeccable logic. 

Are you a socialist or a capitalist?

You probably haven't even begun to answer this question.

"Trust No One"

How do libertarians respond to the accusation that they do not have enough trust in government? John Adams wrote in 1772:

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."

Should libertarians have more confidence in their government? Thomas Jefferson, 1799:

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.… In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

James Madison warned the people of Virginia (1799):

the nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

Madison added in Federalist No. 55,

[T]here is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust. . . .

Trusting government, having "confidence in government," is un-American.

The British historian Lord Acton put it this way:

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

The exercise of political power is problematic. We should assume that "great men" -- that is, powerful men -- men who wield the force of "the government" -- are morally corrupt. This assumption should be considered confirmed if he increases his own power during his time of "public service."

Why Bad Men Rule by Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters ... but they mean to be masters."
~ Daniel Webster

In 1776, America's Founding Fathers proposed a form of government which scandalized many. A government with NO KING.

It was unprecedented.

How can a nation preserve social order -- how can a government govern -- with no king? It would be like a headless horseman!

It got worse. America's government would be a government characterized by "the Consent of the Governed."

This turned the entire concept of "government" on its head. When the king has a "divine right" to govern his subjects, the subjects have no right to disagree with the king. Every decree of the king is assumed to be valid, even if the subjects don't like it. But in America, every action of the government would be presumed to be INVALID unless the governed consented to the government's act.

We The People would govern ourselves.

And -- We the People would govern the government.

We the People would tell the government how to govern!

Breathtaking.

It rocked the world.

Only a Theocracy -- a people "under God" -- can be trusted with self-government -- capitalism and a Free Market. And if religion and morality hold sway in a nation, then we can safely criticize America's Founding Fathers for replacing one government with another. They themselves taught us not to trust civil governments for social order, but to trust in religion and morality. If you're having second thoughts about enrolling in PeacemakerCoaching, read the quotes on that page. Take a glance at the linked pages on that page. After reading the Bible, the Westminster Standards, the history of Theocracy and Western Civilization, and Reisman's treatise on Capitalism, you will be ready for the next paradigm.

It will be bigger than "consent of the governed."

If you and I don't follow the lead of George Washington, the next generation will be engulfed in socialism and the darkness of "false religions" (to use the words of James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution").