Religious Freedom ~ Clay Christensen

The basic premise of the video is correct - that Democracy works because people are inspired by God to follow laws declared and undeclared. At the end of the video, Mr. Christensen asks the question 'what happens when a democracy loses its religion?' The answer is plain to see in America today. Unfortunately, the United States is no longer a democracy. As a result we have not only lost our traditional financial freedom, but that of our political freedom as well. As America has forgotten God, so we have lost our liberty and our wealth. The United States has become a fascist police state and we are proud of it.(*)

IF GOD DOES NOT JUDGE AMERICA, HE WILL HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
- Shanghai curse August 1937

I submit that divine judgment has been rendered and that divine punishment is upon us. May God have mercy upon those who are called by His name.

and that's just me, hollering from the choir loft...

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"The United States no longer has a functioning democracy."
- President Jimmy Carter (reported by Forbes Magazine, Der Spiegel and the Daily Beast)

A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy namely, that it no longer exists.
Asking "[w]ho really rules?" researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argues that over the past few decades America's political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites wield most power. Using data drawn from over 1,800 different policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, the two conclude that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of or even against the will of the majority of voters.

"Democracy as an end in itself favors demagogues who would use it for non-democratic ends."
- CIA officer Miles Copeland THE GAME PLAYER

"The assessment that political parties are corrupt is derived from both an awareness that their
funding is often derived from forms of corruption, and that the governments which they form
are wide open to influence by the same funders."
- LAURENCE COCKCROFT
Co-Founder of Transparency International (TI)
The Cicero Foundation

"The Republican and Democratic parties are two heads of the same snake."
- anonymous

"In any election, the only real winner is the government."
- Mark Twain

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democracy = government by the people;
Greek dēmokratía = popular government.

Democracy implies that the man must take the responsibility for choosing his rulers and representatives, and for the maintenance of his own 'rights' against the possible and probable encroachments of the government which he has sanctioned to act for him in public matters. [Ezra Pound, "ABC of Economics," 1933]

[source: www.dictionary.com ]

God does not feature in a democracy. Democracy is mob rule.

You hear the phrase, "The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land." That's not what the Word of God says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). Did the Constitution create the heaven and the earth? So how could it be the law of the land? Only He who creates, God, is the Law of the land. "And he is before all things, and by him all things consist" (Colossians 1:17). Christ is before the Constitution, and by Jesus, not the Constitution, all things consist.

All things were created by God and for God, not "by the people, and for the people" (Democracy); not for our enjoyment, not for our wants. We were created for God. John 1:3, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."

Colossians 1:16, "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"

The sole purpose of constitutions is to free human beings from God's Law in order to chain them to the morality of the State dictated in its codes, rules, regulations, ordinances, statutes, public policies, executive orders, laws, etc. All constitutions were created by the fallen reason of the natural man, and are molded by the "reasonable interpretation" of human beings wearing black robes. Private rights are always weighed against the greater public good and are regulated by the "police power".

Those who thus rely upon the words of any constitution for support are leaning upon a broken reed; and their sense of security is a false one. The Constitution does not protect persons or property against unjust invasion, or prevent government control and regulation of business. After all, this depends on the interpretations and applications of the courts. Constitutional law is the morality of fascism and comes from the vain imaginations of men. It is a code, rule, or regulation for the dead thing it brings into being. Corporations are dead, at law. The United States is a Federal corporation. Thus, the United States is a dead thing.

“We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.” Charles Evans Hughes, Supreme Court Justice, in Dictionary of American Maxims (1955), p. 88.
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Poor poor man.

He believes the lie of democracy in the US.
And that Americans have a deep history of church attendance.

So sad.