#059 What Would You Say If I Told You That America Was A Theocracy, and Always Has Been? -Further. Every. Day.


#059 What Would You Say If I Told You That America Was A Theocracy, and Always Has Been? -Further. Every. Day.


When we allowed secularists to rewrite history, they wrote our history books so that the American Founders were secularists too. We lost the nature of the founding of America to a narrative of a secular enlightenment.

We left Europe for a New World to escape a monarchy that dictated your job and class, how much they could take from you, and what you would believe. What are we headed towards again? An America where you have to appeal for a license to be a plumber or lawyer, where your money is either taxed or devalued in your hands (inflation is hidden taxation), and where dissent from the secular humanist orthodoxy is a prison level offense (look to Australia's laws concerning prayer as conversion therapy and you'll see where America is headed.)

If you don't believe me, just try to be legal counsel for someone else without having a license to practice. Ofcourse having a guarantee of education is important, but that's what a degree is for. Why do I have to apply for a license, permission to do something that isn't my right to do, so that I can pursue a career in law? My clients should be able to ask, “Did you go to law school? What are your recommendations?” They ask these things anyway, they usually assume the license. This means that the government, and not God, has decreed what occupation you may consider. This is why we left Europe 400 years ago.

And what about taxes? If you can tax a right, is it a right? Your income is yours, why should the government have it? If you paid for it, you have a right to your homestead. The government was never meant to garner money by taxing its citizens, but by trade and tariffs (yes these are a tax, but on foreign goods). Our government ran without income tax until 1913. This came with an enormous expansion of the government and an increase in welfare by the State, instead of the Church. This means that the government “allows” you a portion of your income, and they “allow” you to stay on what you think is your land, try not paying your property tax some time and you'll see whose land they think it is. This again, lends back to the Feudal System that the Founding Fathers were seeking to escape. Yet, we put ourselves back into bondage when we forget our history and our God.

On the note of religion, many cultures have allowed “Christianity” to exist, as long as the Christians didn't hold Christ as the exclusive Truth. If you bowed to the State and/or local religions, many cultures never cared if you also believed in Christ. But if you refused to bow to the government or false gods, it was a different story. The Church of Smyrna mentioned in Revelation endured this.

Biblical Scholar William Barclay on Smyrna: “Emperor worship had begin as spontaneous demonstration of gratitude to Rome; but toward the end of the first century, in the days of Domitian, the final step was taken and Caesar worship became compulsory. Once a year the Roman citizen must burn a pinch of incense on the altar to the godhead of Caesar; and having done so, he was given a certificate to guarantee that he had performed his religious duty...All that the Christians had to do was to burn that pinch of incense, say, ‘Caesar is Lord,' receive their certificate, and go away and worship as they pleased. But that is precisely what the Christians would not do. They would give no man the name of Lord; that name they would keep for Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ alone. They would not conform.”

If you do not believe that we are or will be shortly facing this sort of treatment, know that Australia is legalizing imprisonment for people who pray for LGBT individuals. The same movement wants to duplicate this in the United States. Parents are having their children removed for not chemically castrating teenagers and preteens with so-called “gender affirmation treatment.”

That is a long winded way of saying that we are seeing the regression back to a centralized government built on man's law and not God's Natural Law. But how did we get a free and prosperous United States of America? What made her exceptional?

When the Pilgrims came from the Old World to Plymouth Rock on November 11, 1620, they were coming from a feudal system. They weren't familiar with individualism, they were used to quotas and hard labor. They had lived all of their lives under tyranny. This led to some unfortunate circumstances which included a “Common Storehouse System” where the fruits of the community's labor were stored. Some worked hard and others didn't. This led to a famine and eventually a new reading of 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.” This was the basis for the “Protestant Work Ethic”. This is where we understood that your food is your own. Your income is your own, not someone else's. Charity is commanded by the Bible, entitlements by definition are antithetical to the Scriptures.

Now that we've covered the basis of the individual work ethic, formed out of the Bible and Human experience, the next question is where did we get our government structure? Well, our legal system is founded on “Common Law” or God's Natural Law. A University of Houston study found that of 15,000 documents from America's Founding Fathers, 34% of the quotations used were directly out of Scripture. No other source was so widely quoted. For a group of atheists and deists, this is an interesting pattern.

In fact, these men founded a nation on the concept that the majority of the individuals in the nation had the Spirit of God in their hearts, or at least understood the same moral code. This led to the Federalist ideal that limited government at the Federal level so that the states, counties, and individuals would have more freedom. This system relied on citizens to be Spirit Filled or at least Biblically virtuous. Just to give you some quotes back up that claim:

John Adams to the Massachusetts Militia in 10-11-1798:

“Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge, or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”



"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness -- these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."

George Washington

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."

Patrick Henry

We have always been framed as a soft theocracy. Just remember that when pseudo-intellectuals attempt to inform you about the secularist nature of our America's founding.




Notes on Smyrna:

https://www.bible.com/events/43944

John Adams' Letter to the Massachusetts Militia:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102

Bible Most Quoted Document by Founders:

https://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/the-bible-and-government

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mtj1.046_0212_0213/?st=gallery