Organized religion requires a government from the top down, priests and laity, etc. Christianity starts in the family with the husband as the priest.
One does not go to church to find God. One goes to church as a family because the family unit of two or three or more is the church or the living organism of the body of Christ. This is pure Christianity.
I do believe in politics that the family should be the most powerful organism that controls the organization of government. It starts at the bottom or with the family. The family is more important than any other bureaucracy.
Goldwater is an icon to me. I have never seen a person scare so many people, even though he was quite logical and believed in choice. I cannot understand why so many liberals fear libertarians and Christians when both seek to live and let live for others.
Many of the laws in this United States we have today do more damage to the family unit and especially the patriarchs than any other nation that I know of. Every left-wing government seeking, power hungry liberal and controller that I have ever met seeks to undermine the basic foundation of our country, the family unit.
God's laws made it hard for a woman to divorce her husband. There was a good reason for this. She could not rebel against God's authority in her husband without consequences. God never tried to control the prodigal. A godly husband will never try to keep a wife from leaving. That is her choice. She may learn from her mistake. The prodigal made it home. Some do not.
The lawyers and the legalist judges tempt women to usurp authority over their husbands and to empower themselves. Lawyers and moneychangers are very evil people at times. The politicians tempt women also by seemingly giving them power and telling them they are equal.
It is woman's influence that is powerful. She can wield that influence for good or for evil. When she wields it for evil, she will sometime receive her just dues, a weak and submissive husband.
Christ was our Heavenly Father in Spirit and the Son of God in His human nature. His church is the bride represented by ten virgins. A good husband knows how to be, in a sense, the spiritual father that his wife may have never had or he may be the spiritual father that she did have in principle from her natural father and continuing in the marriage.
Sometimes our wives need to be entreated as daughters. The problem comes when liberal men want their wives to replace momma and the whole family gets out of kilter. Sarah, in the bible, called her husband, lord(master). Today, that phrase is laughable when viewed by a liberal woman of progressive thought. No one lords it over me. Yeah, except those in government that you have elected to make sure you get your way, MS. whoever you are.
Everyone has a leader. A liberal woman looks to the law of man and the government for her needs, the bureaucracy. This is what went wrong with Israel. She started looking into the system and fornicating with the idols of power. It cost her a great deal but her husband did not try to hold her back.
There are many more older women in the world today that are very lonely. There are very few older men that cannot find a young bride or an older one if they have respect for him and like his authority and spirit and care.
No fault divorce has ruined these united States and turned them into the United States. The top has become the bottom and the bottom has become the top. Evil is called good and good is called evil. - StRadical
Commentary by Jacobs_Trouble
Let's only hope and pray that the young men are reading this. The young ladies would also do well to know the truth concerning their role as godly women but without the leadership of a truly Liberty loving husband they will only be forced or fall into the trappings of a lie as old as the serpent himself.
The term "liberal" is only another word that was horrendously distorted by the left wing politicians of our history books. Many people still erroneously associate this word with freedom when it no longer carries a promise in the mouths of the liars - I mean, the leaders. Politicians have lied on both sides of the table. To be frank, I have witnessed enough corruption between the alledged "left" and "right" to easily conclude that if the churches that claim the name of Christ were to discipline themselves with equal colusion, as do the Conservative and Liberal parties, they might even achieve a measure of desirable change - regardless of political policies.
The nations of both the United States of America and Canada need to stop looking to the left and the right and start looking up - especially if they believe in any hope of salvation. Without the standards (land marks) that God has set forth in scripture for all Man kind to live by, the land will only continue to invite a curse upon it. Of course many of the alleged "Liberal" thinkers would accuse me of making a legalist statement for having said as much. These so-called "Liberals" confuse liberty with licence. Too much of the Neo-Con government believes the same. After all, curses are merely superstition - until society manufactures them. Abortion is not a myth and neither is murder. Broken marriages and ruined homes are no superstition. Divorce is only too real. All of these sinful conditions (and many others) bring a spiritual dynamic upon a nation like a whirlwind sweeping through a field and devastating it. To call this a curse is accurate.
The family unit is the primary building block of any society in any nation. It isn't optional. I don't believe the Liberal backed (pro gay, pro abortion) leaders of our nations are oblivious to this fact. I don't think the conservative (pro overseas war, pro compromise, pro corporate welfare) Republicans are either. Just how these principles are negotiated at the table between the poles of compromise is something every voter should be aware of. Politicians can be very cunning in the political art of compromise. They'll trade whatever is on the bargaining table if they think that the delegation will suit their interests. Republicans love big government as much as Liberals do. The Liberals just happen to be more honest about it.
A society without social safety nets is a society without a conscience. The left plays this ethic like a fiddle while the elitist right continues to insist that corporate welfare and military spending are the only social safety nets worth having. How is it that so many right winged politicians seem to pretend that those who are unable to swim should only drown in a sea of debt generated by both sides? How can so many U.S. citizens ignore that the right wing government has spent more tax payers dollars than the left wing government before them? Is it time for the tables to turn again for the people to blame the debt on the Liberals once more? WAKE UP AMERICA. The good cop / bad cop routine is an old political trick! Ya'll are bein' suckered.
There is a scripture that I have come to love about a young ruler who loved the Lord.
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jedidah, the daughter of Adaiah of Boscath. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left. 2 Kings 22: 1-2
Here are a few more touching the subject of right and left government:
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. -Dueteronomy 28:14
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper withersoever thou goest. - Joshua 1:7
If I were a citizen of the U.S.A. I would vote neither Democrat nor Republican. I would be looking for some fresh blood that upheld biblical ethics and truly gave God the glory. I would be more concerned about what being a godly American meant to me than swinging to the left or to the right. The time has come to look up to the Most High and seek the will of God. Our politicians are only men.