Every week a hundred
stories, if not a thousand, illustrate the truth that the Bible is the most
relevant and reliable book on the school’s library shelf. Having been a preacher for almost 50 years,
it is my purpose to pick a story each week that illuminates the impact the
Bible has had, could have, or should have on “modern” mankind.
The Olympic Games in
Sochi, Russia, made headline news. Bob Costas made news when he described
Russian Communism as a “pivotal experiment.”
PIVOTAL? How about FAILED
experiment! How about DISASTROUS
experiment! This “experiment” cost
around 50 million lives, plus millions sent to Siberia.[i]
The Soviet Socialist experiment failed at every level to produce the “paradise”
it had promised. So, great was the failure that a literary supporter wrote Animal Farm to ridicule the failures of
the Russian experiment—the pigs are in control! The Russian “pivotal
experiment” proved that Marxists are mad, Socialists are shams, and liberals
are lunatic.
The Olympics at Sochi
give a glimpse inside communism—where the water looks like urine and the
bathrooms don’t work—and an elaborate fireworks display and closing ceremony conceal
the “blessings of utopia.” Every liberal
should have to spend 10 years in a Russian gulag, 10 years in a Chinese slave
shop, and 10 years in a Cuban hospital. Every American student should have to
read Animal Farm and spend a semester
studying the reality of communism.
Over the years many liberals
have said that Jesus was a socialist/liberal and that the Bible teaches
communism. Exactly, what does the Bible say about this “pivotal experiment” in
history called socialism/communism/Marxism?
The founding fathers of
America were steeped in Biblical teachings. They founded this nation upon the Biblical
principle of free enterprise, not the ideals of socialism.[ii]
The Pilgrims actually
tried socialism first in American. They were under contract to a company in
London. The contract established a “socialist” style of government where all
land was held in common and the excess profits would go back to England to pay
for their passage to America.
The Pilgrims almost
starved to death, not because America was too harsh, but because many were too
lazy and would not work hard enough to make the crops or colony a success.
So, William Bradford
develops a plan. He simply gave to each
family a plot of ground and told them they would have to work it. If they
didn’t, then they would starve. The end
result is history: the Pilgrims prospered and passed the same idea along to all
the colonies—free enterprise and America began prospering.[iii]
The idea of private
property rights was very sacred to early Americans—influenced by John Locke—who
considered life, liberty, and property to be the basic God-given rights of all.[iv]
To these early Americans the phrase “pursuit of happiness” included property
rights and so much more.
George Mason wrote the
Virginia Declaration of Rights, just one month before the Declaration of
Independence was signed, in which he said, “That all men are by nature equally free and
independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a
state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their
posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of
acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and
safety.”[v]
A free society is based upon property rights as a
fundamental principle, not the Marxist ideal that government owns all property.
These two ideals are more than mere opposites; they oppose each other just as
light fights darkness. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx identifies the
bourgeois as the middle class property owner and says that this person must be
swept out of the way.[vi] Now, you know what the true objective of
liberalism is—destroy the middle class. Liberals/Marxist
want to destroy private property and family rights.
On the other hand, the Bible established property
rights in the Ten Commandments. Exodus 15:15 and 17. Thou shalt not steal. Thou
shalt not covet thy neighbor’s land etc.
These two commandments establish the right of individuals to own
property and to have their property rights protected by the government.
Not even the government has the right to steal or
covet their neighbor’s land. But as the Declaration of Independence states: “That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men,…”[vii] Across our nation, the government is abusing
“eminent domain” to rob individuals of their private property.[viii]
When God delivered
Israel from Egyptian bondage, He established the first truly free nation on
earth. The first lesson of that free nation was that freedom of worship was
central to liberty—they learned this at Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments.
Our Founding Father deeply believed that liberty depended upon freedom of
worship and upon God’s Word being the law—all man-made laws being based upon
those principles.[ix]
The second lesson that the
free nation of Israel learned was when Joshua gave to each tribe and then to
each family a portion of land. Each
family inherited land that would be the source to their happiness, safety, and
prosperity. Even if the family lost
their property through poverty, the property was to be restored to the family
in the Year of Jubilee—every 50th year.
Property rights are
fundamental to a free nation. However,
when a government can regulate property rights, then freedom does not
exist. Divine rights have now become
government “privileges” that are won or lost according to their whims.
The third lesson
learned by this newly freed nation was that the parents have the right and the
responsibility to educate their children, not the state, king, or government. Children
are God-given gifts to parents. Unknown to most Americans, the government took
the right to educate children unto themselves back in the 1970s when Carter
established the Department of Education.
Government bureaucrats consider parents as mere government agents who
have received the “privilege” to raise their children from the government as
long as parents meet the qualifications of government bureaucrats. Homeschoolers
are fighting for the parental right to educate their own children. However,
most students are doomed to the public—government controlled—system.
The parental right to
educate their own children could be returned immediately if Congress would pass
a Constitutional Amendment that gave vouchers to every student and gave the
parents the right to use the vouchers at any school of their choice:
homeschool, private, charter, or public.
This Amendment would put the right of education back into parents’
hands, where it belongs. The benefits of
this Amendment would be immeasurable.
American education and students would excel! Liberals don’t want success; they want
control!
Do Russians have more religious
and educational rights than Americans?
The International Association for Religious Freedom thinks so.[x] By the way, educational rights are property
rights because our children belong to the parents, not the government.
Remember the old
Wendy’s advertisement—Soviet Fashion Show—ridiculing Russian variety in
clothing—“Is Daywear.” There was no
variety. No matter what the announcer said, the model returned in the same drab
clothing. Watch here.[xi]
This is the liberal
answer to everything—only one choice—the government’s choice. “Is School
choice!” “Is Healthcare!” “Is America’s future!”
Beam me up, Scotty!
Liberals love to cite
the Bible and Jesus as supporting their lunacy. They claim that the early
church taught communism. It is true that
the early church at Jerusalem had people who sold everything and gave it to the
church, but it was never commanded that all the people give up their property
or that the government control all property.
This early exuberance made the church in Jerusalem so poor that Paul had
to take offerings back to Jerusalem to help the poor church. Acts 11:29. Socialism always brings abject poverty.
The early church was
not an example of communism, but charity. The church has been one of the most
dynamic forces for giving to help the helpless.
Multiplied millions of dollars every year are given through the churches
to minister to prisoners, to the homeless, to recovering addicts, to the sick,
to the hurting…and the list is endless.
Liberals also love to
misquote Jesus. They love to say he is the ultimate example of a liberal. Jesus never commanded the government to take
money from the rich and give it to the poor—he commanded individuals to give
their own wealth away. Besides, if Jesus
was truly a liberal, then the New Testament and especially the words of Jesus
would be required reading in all of the government schools. Instead, Bible
reading was outlawed by the liberals in the Supreme Court because the words of
Jesus rebuke the lying, lazy liberals.[xii]
Americans are not truly
free if they are not free in property. This includes your wages, money, and
savings. The Marxist progressive tax
system—oppressive income tax rates of almost 50%—is designed to confiscate
“property” from the rich and give it to the poor. Translate that: take from the hardworking and
give to the lazy and corrupt. Ironically, a lot of “poor” bureaucratic pockets
get filled as the money passes “through government hands.”
Have you ever added up
the amount of money you pay each year in income taxes, property taxes, sales
taxes, and the ubiquitous federal fees?
Have you considered how
much “property” you are losing through heavy taxation? How much land could you
buy with that 50%? How big would your
retirement be if that 50% went into your Roth IRA?
Where is the
Constitutional right to own property, when the government can tax at will
without limit ad nauseam?
The Olympics ended with
a big bang. Not the fireworks show, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Putin used his iron fist to grab the iron
hammer to crush the enemy and then the iron sickle to cut down all opposition. Communism is back in the news. Thanks to Obama’s Lilly-livered liberal rhetoric,
the Cold War is back on the front page news.
Welcome to the 21st
century! Where the Bible is the antithesis and antidote of all the lunatic
ideals of liberalism/socialism/Marxism/Communism!
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