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The Ten Antithesis
The Ten Antithesis
Pastor Jeff Black
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church
Sermon Titled: Reject God and You Will Have Socialism
or as I would re-title it: War of the World-Views
To define Socialism simply consider the antithesis to each of the Ten Commandments.
The First antithesis – The State is not under the jurisdiction of God and must not reference the Word of God in any of its policies, decisions or programs.
The Second antithesis – The State shall manufacture images of itself and demand their prominent display in public. No symbol of any alternative authority will be permitted on public property.
The Third antithesis – Oaths ought not to reference the True God of the Bible and when taken are to be understood as meaningless tradition.
The Fourth antithesis – Since God doesn’t exist there is no day in which He has a special propriety. Therefore business shall operate without hindrance on Sunday.
The Fifth antithesis – Since God doesn’t exist He doesn’t define family so the State may define it as it serves the State’s goal. The Rights of the Child must be pressed into law so that the authority of mothers and fathers will be undermined.
The Sixth antithesis – Thou shalt murder millions of human babies for the goal of a sustainable culture. Those who murder born humans shall not be executed but understood and sympathized with because of their unhappy environment, which conditioned them to such behavior.
The Seventh antithesis – Since God doesn’t exist He doesn’t define marriage so the State may define it as it serves the State’s goal. Since there is not any ultimate morality we must recognize that sexual activity and expression has neither bounds nor limits, except as may serve the goal of the State.
The Eighth antithesis – Private property must be abolished in the interests of the State. No citizen-subject shall be permitted to develop his independence from the State. Everyone must be moved onto the Government Plantation.
The Ninth antithesis – There is not any absolute standard of truth. Truth must be in the service of the State, therefore anything may be communicated if it serves the goal of the State.
The Tenth antithesis – Thou shah covet your neighbor’s estate and confiscate it for redistribution as seems good in the eyes of the State
When “Christian norms and values were deemed appropriate”
Now that Christian norms and values concerning the family are not considered appropriate by our legal system the flood gates are open. First gay marriage and now…once they are opened you can’t tell the water where to go.
Canada’s anti-polygamy laws are relics of a bygone era when “Christian norms and values were deemed appropriate,” a British Columbia Supreme Court judge will hear during a much-anticipated constitutional reference hearing that begins on Monday. Such values are outdated and conflict with today’s multicultural attitudes and with Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. So argues Vancouver lawyer George Macintosh, appointed to challenge this country’s 120-year-old polygamy ban. The Charter and the ban are irreconcilable, he says.
The Influence of John Calvin on Economic Thought
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
I don’t know why I’ve been so interested in politics lately, but today while wondering around the used bookstore I found a brand new copy of The Road to Serfdom by Hayek. You can read an ol’ cartoon verison by clicking the picture below.
Spooner and Taxation
The last four months or so I’ve been devouring everything I can find on the American Civil War, or the War of Northern Aggression, and Lincoln. In my reading I stumbled across the works of Lysander Spooner.
Here’s a link to audio on taxation.
Great Quotes
from Sir Wilfrid Laurier:
If I were not French I would choose to be – Scotch.
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.
I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
The good Saxon word, freedom; freedom in every sense of the term, freedom of speech, freedom of action, freedom in religious life and civil life and last but not least, freedom in commercial life.
Like this:
The Invisible Hand
…every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
From Wiki: In economics, the invisible hand, also known as the invisible hand of the market, the term economists use to describe the self-regulating nature of the marketplace, is a metaphor first coined by the economist Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. For Smith, the invisible hand was created by the conjunction of the forces of self-interest, competition, and supply and demand, which he noted as being capable of allocating resources in society. This is the founding justification for the laissez-faire economic philosophy.
China turns to Adam Smith
“What is more unexpected is that it is China that has an appetite for the father of modern capitalism, while the West is rediscovering Marx.” Telegraph.co.uk
Gun Laws
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms…disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes…”
- Thomas Jefferson
