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RobertRinger.com : The Arrogance of the Prom King

Mon, 9 May 2016 10:55:58 +0000

Women are not the same as men, no matter what NWO military chiefs say. Made different. Men are created to look and initiate and woo, women created to attract, select, and sometimes invite. Trump therefore sounds genuine. Can't expect Christian behavior from him, but he looks to be a MUCH better protector of women and Christians in the U. S. and abroad than any of the candidates he won against and certainly both Dems.including Cruz the Wall Street-Fed-CFR mob.

RobertRinger.com : The Arrogance of the Prom King

Mon, 9 May 2016 10:45:45 +0000

Prenatal infanticide the "lesser of two evils"???

RobertRinger.com : The Arrogance of the Prom King

Mon, 9 May 2016 10:31:56 +0000

+11

RobertRinger.com : The Arrogance of the Prom King

Mon, 9 May 2016 10:30:54 +0000

As if the fed courts were sane???? God is not mocked. America's sins blowing back...

The Humble Libertarian : Libertarians and Martin Luther King Jr. --was Martin Luther King Jr. a Libertarian?

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:27:44 +0000

Pooling material resources in a "voluntary communism" only worked for what is called "the Early Church", as laid out in the scripture, Acts 2:42-45 and Acts 4. Eleanor Roosevelt was an almost outed Communist and engineer of a number of such experimental "voluntary communes" in the Southwest, and they all flopped, word has it, miserably. The Pilgrims tried it their first year in the new continent, and got very little harvest. One of the first returns in a search from the History Channel on this group merely mentions "harsh conditions". The first year everyone plowed, sewed and reaped together, and they got a poor crop. For the second year, Governor Bradford and presumably advisers divided the land into plots, with each family responsible for its own crops. The result was a tremendous bounty with enough to spare and share.

News From Antiwar.com : US Lobbying Fails as Allies Flock to China-Led Bank

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 01:36:49 +0000

Christian prophet predicted this in 1973, this is only the beginning. In his dream, he saw Europe as a bride in a marriage ceremony with groom Russia.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Private Law - Robert P. Murphy - Mises Daily

Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:28:40 +0000

That's called "government". People would immediately stop doing business with him, offended relatives would have great incentive to collect support for a counter-attack. The insurance company that provided the blowback against Mr. (Bad) Rich Guy might double their business overnight, for both security and moral reasons. In a society with strong respect for "Thou shalt not steal", "thou shalt not kill", such a "rich man" would soon meet his comeuppance with other players. "No more Mr. Rich Guy". During the book of Judges the only law they had were the laws of Moses. Several times there were foreign bad guys, kings, that sent armed soldiers to forcefully collect "tribute" from the agrarian Israelite farmers who were settled in their lands. One Philistine king after a conquest imposed "sword control" on them: Israelite blacksmiths were illegal. One of the farmers, Mr. Anybody, would hear a call from God to organize an army to expel the oppressors. Mission accomplished, during that time, after victory they would abandon arms and go back to the farms. During that time, neighbors or two parties in dispute would bring their matter to a person with a reputation for fairness. Often that was the guy who led the armies, but it was really anybody who earned it. The situation devolved finally into a monarchy with two developments in social traditions. One, apparently, the tradition developed to regard the office of judgeship as something of an inherited office. Maybe it developed over two or three generations in which the offspring showed the same sense of justice and truth as the ancestor. I say this because Samuel became judge because the people had rejected the sons of Eli who took bribes in their decision to tilt to one or the other, they got a corrupt reputation. This implies that they had expected better of the next generation. The expectation of hereditary "judgeship" was a laziness on the part of the people. They should have looked around for someone more fitting. Or someone(s). The rabbis were also expected to fill this role. But in the book of Judges they had left off obeying the (government-free) law of the land several times, and that was when they were weak enough to conquer. Two. When Samuel began reaching his old age, the people noted that his sons were also corrupt. The people were in another stage where they were looking too much at the nations surrounding them and getting covetous for what they saw as "glory". Or something. So they sent the elders to Samuel demanding he select out a king for them. To fight their battles and stuff. Samuel warned them. A king is going to extort outrageous taxes from your farms. Forget thinking you'll get away with fudging on your tithe! A king will also take your sons to fight his wars (translation: there will be more wars, because he can). A king will also take your daughters to his palaces bake him some nice delicacies. You're going to be very sorry you did this. Sure enough, it started off with Saul, the first one. Samuel prayed a little harder for the retry, and let God have more say on the second one, David. Sure enough, then Solomon, not content with the wisdom and riches God gave him, proved out Samuel's warning. He started coveting the princesses that admiring heathen pushed in front of him, took more wives and concubines than the could afford, started listening to these women who worshiped false gods and built temples to their false gods. One of them was Molech, whose priests were documented earlier and later as doing sacrifice of babies to a burning pile inside a giant idol. He did more than he could afford so he just raised taxes. When he died the people begged for relief from the burdensome taxation. The son listened to the wrong (young) advisers and flippantly told him he'd make it worse for them. So the northern ten tribes all split off from the kingdom. The kings were terrible, most of them.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Fri, 4 Jul 2014 16:04:46 +0000

History does not hide Declan in Ireland, who did not spread the word all that much. The why is lost to history, but Patrick obviously came back to the island with a Christ-like love for the people and won almost every one to Jesus Christ (not a church organization) and the result was a transformation for the Irish that reverberated back to Britain and the continent, and through the ages.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Fri, 4 Jul 2014 16:00:55 +0000

Just before the verse that has the only claim of the Papacy to leadership succession, Christ had asked Peter who did he think he was. Peter answered "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." That's when Jesus told him that God had revealed that to him, and with reference to the name of Peter, said "Upon this rock I will build my church". The rock of Jesus being "Christ, the Son of the living God". Peter was sifting sand during those days, he was not a "rock". David said the Lord was "the rock of my salvation". Not Peter. Peter knew that there is "only once intercessor between God and man, the man Christ Jesus". Jesus said "By their fruits ye shall know them".

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:53:05 +0000

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It does not clarify why the fish. Maybe they just didn't have it at the time, Jesus did not keep more than he needed day to day I don't think. They had their "treasury", but he lived "Take no thought for the morrow", too, teaching them how to spread the Gospel by faith (Luke 10, Matthew 10). They weren't "evading" the tax collector, nor did they "make him think they payed him". They got the tribute and they paid the guy. Period. That's what it says and it's the Bible, right? ;)

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:41:22 +0000

"THe State" has no claim to "acting for us all" any more than any Mafia does. No matter that the majority "those that go in thereat" might pick the lead Godfather, or so they think. As to sodomy, adultery, all that, they all remain as vile evils. God will take care of them just like at Sodom and Gomorrah, but I would rather they repent and join the saints. In the Bible God himself made exceptions from his laws, except for the two greatest commandments, and male sodomy. It's not so clear in the case of women. It's easier to win them (and any sinners) if they don't have the Inquisition dangling any more than it kept the Inquisitors from sinning.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:25:55 +0000

Remember Bertie, today's Pope does not have any more claim to be "God's man" on earth any more than Caiaphas had a claim to Aaron's heir, or Israel to Abraham's seed, as Jesus said. There is only one intercessor, Jesus said even his mother and his brother were the ones that heard from God and followed him. Where "two or three" are gathered.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:22:36 +0000

No matter, it's better to choose to be chosen. "Whosoever will, come", Not "Whosoever I will, come." Or "Whosoever God wills, come".

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:18:32 +0000

Or, "those who act as their own gods".

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:02:58 +0000

I use that all the time, Roger. God told Samuel that Israel had rejected HIM not Samuel and not even Samuel's sons. God only acceded to the demand because they were going to do it anyway, and God had more plans for Israel. Man makes mistakes but God does not make mistakes. All of Samuel's warnings to them came true of course, the same warnings and descriptions that Austrian economists and anarcho-capitalists voice about governments today. "Libertarian's dream". Well said.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:42:15 +0000

I think they got the coin to pay in Matthew 17 exactly like Jesus said. Peter immediately told the tax collector that they paid taxes but then he came in to tell Jesus. But there's no reason to think that Peter did not do what Jesus told him to.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:34:33 +0000

Romans 13 is a requirement for governments, not just subjects. I think it was meant in the sense of Psalm 75:7: But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. Psalm 75:7 David prayed for protection against his enemies, even at the same time he was acknowledging that they are "thy servants". God said Nebuccadnezzar was "my servant" to serve his purposes, not that ever law he promulgated was just. Also, Paul was speaking in the present verb tense at the time of writing it, and apparently as a guideline. But note that Peter and John told the Sanhedrin they had to obey God and not man, and note too that Paul was later beheaded by the emperor, the state authorities, Peter was crucified, and John was boiled in oil and exiled. And Jesus told the disciples to pay the taxes demanded (the Bible uses the more accurate term "tribute", an extortion), not for some spiritual reason, but "lest we offend them". Meaning pay the tax to keep them off your back so you can continue to do God's work. And he did NOT pay that tax until he had to. And lest we forget, remember what he did with the cheating, thieving, false-balance money changers. Where do you think Andrew Jackson got his epithet when he vetoed the central bank?

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:17:39 +0000

On taxes, it's not just Matthew 22, but one day it occurred to me that in Matthew 17, Jesus talked about taxes even more clearly, saying the KINGS and their children are "free", obviously pointing to their corruption, and meaning the rest of us are subjugated and not completely free, except in a spiritual sense. And that they were thieves. Matthew 17:24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? 25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? 26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. 27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee. In another reference, God told Samuel that the people had rejected GOD not Samuel by demanding a king. The leaders had pointed out to Samuel that his sons were corrupt and badly behaved, therefore they wanted a king! (Get the joke?) It doesn't explain when the Hebrews had begun to view these judge-ships as hereditary, but it wasn't so during the book of Judges. That's when they resolved disputes by seeking out "judges" who had earned reputation as being fair to all and using solid reasoning. The laws of Moses made ZERO provision for any government or even facsimile thereof. The force of "the law" was only the people's following it out of the "fear of God", NOT the fear of man. No taxes, no police force to support, no prisons, none of that. Even the "tithe" depended on their faith. That's why the people wanted a king. To avoid answering to God directly or having to pretend they had to. They saw the vanity and prosperity of kings of neighbors and thought they needed one to rule them rather than godly judges. They could have asked for a different person to serve as "judge", or just selected one, but no. And Samuel told them everything that today's Austrian economists and libertarians tell them. They'll lay burdensome taxes on you, they will take your sons and send them to war, they will take your daughters to their palaces to serve them, they'll take whatever they want from you. BUT the laws of Moses were inadequate, and Paul said they were only meant to bring us to the grace and mercy of Christ, and God's forgiveness. Salvation is not to be found in works of devotion but in living the Law of Love. Works follow love.

Ludwig von Mises Institute : Early Catholic Social Teaching: The State as Robber - Bryan Cheang - Mises Daily

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 13:43:39 +0000

In reality, all of us need some moral, ethical, and logical guidance sometimes. Otherwise, the instant we realize that the NAP is the minimum requirement for relating to other humans, we would not need help from Cheang, Walter Block, Ron Paul, Rothbard, St. Augustine, St. Patrick, or anybody else.

Information Clearing House - News you won't find on CNN : Putin Calls Kerry a Liar on Syria

Sun, 8 Sep 2013 15:19:15 +0000

The article directs attention to Kerry lying about the al-Qaeda dominating the "rebels" factions, but the first thing came to me was KERRY LIED ABOUT WHO USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.