Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
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Monday, July 3, 2017

Just Like Our Founders 241 Years Ago, We Need To Unashamedly Declare That Our Rights Come To Us From God - Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG


Posted: 02 Jul 2017  Michael Snyder  THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

Why do we celebrate the 4th of July?  

If you were to ask average people on the street this question, many of them would mumble something about “independence”, but the truth is that most Americans would not be able to tell you clearly why it is a holiday.  According to Wikipedia, the 4th of July “is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago on July 4, 1776.”  

Unfortunately, most Americans have never read the Declaration of Independence, and if a similar document was authored today it would be banned from our public schools because it mentions God four times.  We have allowed the liberal elite to gain such a stranglehold over our society that even our most cherished founding principles have become politically incorrect.

If you ask most Americans to quote from the Declaration of Independence, almost everyone will give you something from this sentence…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

This is one of the most famous sentences in the English language, but do most of us still proudly believe this?

And if you happen to be someone that does not believe in God, then where do your rights come from?

If they come from men, then men can take them away.  But if they come from God, then nobody can take them away.  This is a point that President Trump brought up in a major speech that he just delivered to a group of veterans
Since the signing of the Declaration of Independence 241 years ago, America always affirmed that liberty comes from our creator. Our rights are given to us by God, and no earthly force can ever take those rights away. That is why my administration is transferring power out of Washington and returning that power back where it belongs to the people,” Trump said.
“Our religious liberty is enshrined in the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights. The American founders invoked our creator four times in the Declaration of Independence,” said Trump. “Benjamin Franklin reminded his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention to begin by bowing their heads in prayer. Inscribed on our currency are the words: ‘In God We Trust.’”
It is so refreshing to hear a president talk like this, because these days most of our politicians are so careful to be politically-correct.  And I am not just talking about Democrats.  Many politicians that are supposedly “conservative” seem quite uncomfortable when matters of faith come up, and if you can get them to talk about God they usually want to switch topics as quickly as possible.

But in the old days, Republicans and Democrats both acknowledged the importance of faith in our society.  The following comes from an excellent article by Dr. Gary Scott Smith
Dwight Eisenhower insisted that the Founding Fathers “wrote their religious faith into our founding documents, stamped their trust in God upon our coins and currency, [and] put it squarely at the base of our institutions.” They strove to obey God’s commandments, live in freedom, and create a prosperous country. “The knowledge that God is the source of all power,” Eisenhower maintained, gave birth to and sustained America. Human dignity depended on the God-given rights that were “eloquently stated” in the Declaration of Independence.
Faith in Almighty God, John F. Kennedy contended, “was a dominant power in the lives of our Founding Fathers.” He urged Americans to “dwell upon the deep religious convictions of those who formed our nation.”
Ronald Reagan repeatedly stressed the religious commitments of the Founding Fathers, especially their contention that the United States would flourish only if its people acted morally. The founders, he declared, “believed faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America’s becoming a great nation.” Reagan regularly recounted how the founders, especially Washington, had relied on God in leading the nation. The Declaration of Independence, Reagan claimed, expressed America’s recognition of God’s power and authority. He noted that Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison all accentuated God’s providential guidance and the importance of prayer. The Founding Fathers ensured that Congress began each day with prayer, Reagan proclaimed, because they valued prayer so highly.
Of course in our day and time teens are actually being threatened with arrest for praying in school.

If we truly want to restore our Republic, we can’t throw out the principles and values that the Republic was founded upon.  The First Amendment guarantees that there will never be an official state church and that we will always get to worship God the way that we want, but there is absolutely nothing in there that says we must have a godless government.  On the contrary, our founders were more influenced by the Bible than any other book, and they quoted from it more than any other book.  Dr. Daniel L. Dreisbach is the author of “Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers“, and I have used this quote from him previously, but I wanted to use it again here because it fits my point perfectly…
The founders, as I document in my new book “Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers,” lived in a biblically literate society. Their many quotations from and allusions to both familiar and obscure biblical texts confirm that they knew the Bible from cover to cover. Biblical language and themes liberally seasoned their rhetoric. The phrases and intonations of the King James Bible, especially, influenced their written and spoken words. Its ideas shaped their habits of mind.
The Bible left its mark on their political culture. Legislative debates, pamphlets and political sermons of the age are replete with quotations from and allusions to the Bible. Following an extensive survey of American political literature from 1760 to 1805, political scientist Donald S. Lutz reported that the Bible was cited more frequently than any European writer or even any European school of thought, such as Enlightenment liberalism. Approximately one-third of all citations in the literature he surveyed were to the Bible. The book of Deuteronomy alone was the most frequently cited work, followed by Montesquieu’s “The Spirit of the Laws.” In fact, Deuteronomy was referenced nearly twice as often as Locke’s writings, and the Apostle Paul was mentioned about as frequently as Montesquieu.
The biggest reason why our federal government is such a mess today is because it has pushed God completely out of the picture.

So instead of defending life, our nation has murdered nearly 60 million children since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973.

Instead of defending liberty, the control freaks at the federal level are suffocating us with hundreds of thousands of laws, rules and regulations, and if you throw in the state and local levels, the number of laws, rules and regulations governing us is in the millions.

And instead of promoting the pursuit of happiness, all of us have to work several months each year just to pay the dozens of different taxes and fees that various levels of government impose on all of us.  But we don’t actually have to have such a system.  If we got rid of our debt-based financial system and went to a much smaller federal government, we could abolish the income tax, the IRS and the Federal Reserve.

Government is not the solution to our problems.

As Ronald Reagan once famously said, government is the problem.

If we work together, we can dismantle the monstrous federal bureaucracy that the liberal elite have spent decades constructing, and we can restore the Republic that our founders risked everything to establish.

It won’t be easy, but we can get there, and the first step is getting back to the principles and values that made America great in the first place.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

The Age of Radicals (Day 1) - David Horowitz on The Jim Bakker Show


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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It much be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. -Ronald Reagan

The battle is being waged now and it’s very vital and it’s going to be touch-and-go for the next generation. -David Horowitz
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John 8:32 MEV You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
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Monday, January 9, 2017

Voices of History - Ronald Reagan (Day 3) - The Jim Bakker Show


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Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker compare the times we’re living in now with the era of the Reagan Presidency. With special guests Doctor William and Robin Forstchen.



Quotes

What is the best elite school in Washington DC where all the elites send their children?  Sidwell Friends, it is a Quaker school.  That is where the president’s kids went to school.  Great, let them.  I think the poorest kid in Washington DC should have the right to go to the same school.  Not stuck in a school system that has utterly failed.  They are keeping parents in literally slavery.  -Doctor William Forstchen

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Psalm 122:6 MEV Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you!

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Thursday, December 29, 2016

Voices of History (Day 2) - The Jim Bakker Show


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Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker compare the times we’re living in now with the era of the Reagan Presidency. With special guests Doctor William and Robin Forstchen.

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The internet has always been the way for people to talk to people. Back in the 1500s how did we get word out about the Protestant reformation? It was printing presses. So people could read the truth. – Doctor William Forstchen
I believe that inflation, which is the basis of our economic problems, that and reduced productivity of our industrial machine has been caused by government.  And what government must do is become fiscally responsible.  Government should take a smaller percentage of the people’s earnings than it is taking.  Government should not be spending beyond its means.  It should balance its budget.  – President Ronald Reagan
The federal government, the 10th article says, shall do only those things specifically called for in the Constitution. All others shall remain with the states or with the people. – President Ronald Reagan
The fundamental thing every prepper needs is clean water. This ministry provides these types of remarkable filters that can literally save your life. – Doctor William Forstchen

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Ephesians 6:13 KJV Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
I Timothy 2:1-2 MEV Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone, for kings and for all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty

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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Voices of History - Ronald Reagan (Day 1) - Dr. William and Robin Forstchen on The Jim Bakker Show

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Pastor Jim and Lori Bakker compare the times we’re living in now with the era of the Reagan Presidency. With special guests Doctor William and Robin Forstchen.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Dinesh D'Souza Dropped the Mic on 'Never Trump' Christians - BOB ESCHLIMAN CHARISMA NEWS

Dinesh D'Souza spoke to students at Liberty University about their responsibility to vote. (Video Screenshot Image)

Dinesh D'Souza Dropped the Mic on 'Never Trump' Christians

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Bestselling author, documentary filmmaker, and accomplished debater Dinesh D'Souza spoke at Liberty University's Convocation, and he had an important message for the students—many of whom have been critical of their university president of late.
While much of the discussion focused on the subject matter of his newest book, What's So Great About Christianity, he also took the time to address the matter of Christians' responsibility to vote. It was, for lack of a better term, what the students themselves would've called a "mic drop."
There is a distinct difference between intentions and consequences, he said. And while a Christian might act out of the purest of intentions, it can still result in terrible consequences. He used the struggle of the abolitionist movement in the mid-1800s as his example, saying abolitionists—until they aligned with the Republican Party—spent much of their time burning copies of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution and criticizing the Founding Fathers for allowing slavery to begin with.
And even when they achieved their greatest victory, they did so with a president—Abraham Lincoln—who himself was not an abolitionist.
D'Souza then turned his speech to the topic of the 2016 presidential race. Those who vote choose not to vote in the 2016 election, are still—in essence—voting for Hillary Clinton, he said.
"You need to know that a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to swing the balance of the Supreme Court, virtually irrevocably, against us," he said. "A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to not only permit, but bring in federal subsidies for abortion. A vote for Hillary is a vote to put religious freedom, already precarious, into a much more endangered position, because the checks and balances of what would normally block the government are themselves being eroded. And, you are voting for a regime in which justice becomes increasingly discretionary, as I saw terrifyingly in my own case.
"In Hillary's America, I think it is an illusion to think that we as conservatives, as Christians, can retreat into our private spaces, drive our pickup truck to school or work, pray in church, and they will leave us unmolested. They will not do that. They have no intention of doing that.
"In a democratic society, as Christians—think about it, how did we lose the media? Not enough of us got involved. How did we lose academia? Not enough of us went to those schools. How did we lose Hollywood? Not enough of us make movies. We gave up that territory, and then we pretend to be shocked when they use their power to beat the heck out of us."
D'Souza said that in the nearly 40 years since Ronald Reagan was elected president, American politics has, more or less, been balanced. But, if Clinton is elected, "this ship is likely to go one side up," creating a very different America for everyone, especially evangelical Christians.
"We've seen the latest WikiLeaks emails," he said. "In them you see the kind of bigotry that the Democrats will indulge in privately against evangelicals, against Catholics. When you listen to it, you ask yourself this question: 'Will they ever say that about a Muslim?' Never.
"So, there is a selective prejudice in our society. It's already there. It's already in the culture. But to import to the highest level of politics—it's one thing if it happens anyway and we fought it and we lost, but for us to collaborate with them? To make it easy, to make it happen? This is why the English phrase was invented, 'Askin' for it.' For us to do that, in my opinion, is to ask for it."
D'Souza closed out his speech by telling the students he didn't want to tell them what to do. And, by nature of his imprisonment for campaign finance violations, he also can't tell them to follow his example. So, instead, he turned to their critical thinking skills:
"I urge you to think critically," he said. "I urge you to weigh the options. I ask you think about the American Dream, handed down to us from generation to generation, and ask what can you do preserve, protect, and defend that dream.
"In the immortal words of the '60s—I'll close with that saying from the 1960s, 'If not now, when? If not us, who?'"
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