As always man never learns anything from history, that's if he happens to be taught it at all. It is usually so generic or politically correct that it is useless. Thus man is doomed to always repeat.
I have been studying the French Revolution lately. And it is not hard to see, that that which Americans avoided and the English avoided, which is the type of revolution the French had, is coming. Everyone should read of the 'Reign of Terror' at that time.
I watched on PBS yesterday a political interview. One man made a very good point. He said, used to, Democrats and Republicans were political opponents. But now they are enemies. Once you opponent becomes your enemy, that's dangerous.
I believe this has affected the Democratic party more at this time, though the Republican party is affected also. This is why conservatives are viewed as deplorable. This is why Maxine Waters calls for the harrasment of anyone connected with Trump. The atheistic liberal left considers the Christian conservative right as an enemy. They are electing socialists to power. And eventually, what do you do with an enemy? You go to war and try and kill them.
Fransis Schaeffer in his book, (How Shall We Then Live", Fleming H. Revell Co., 1976)makes some very good observations concerning why the French Revolution turned into a 'Reign of Terror', and America's Revolution and England's Bloodless Revolution of 1688 did not. In short it was due to the affects of the Reformation upon the people of England and America.
A vast number of people were becoming born-again. Revivals went back and forth across the ocean. The countries laws were seen as being based on the absolute authority of God and His Words, The Bible. As Schaeffer says of the Reformation in his before mentioned book, "One of the greatest affect it had was the opportunity for tremendous freedom without chaos." (p.105)
He again says, "Thus the biblical insistance on the responsibility of people-even of monarchs-to God's law turned the political tide in those countries where the Reformation emphasis on the Bible as the only final authority took root." (p.108)
But today we turn our government away from the Bible. It is no longer the basis for our right and wrong or the way the government should work. France did not have the Reformation base to curb and define it's revolution. Thus it became chaos, and mass killings and murders. And now we are losing, or should I say, turning away from our Reformation base. Thus it is 'enemies' instead of opponents. And once something triggers it, it will turn into a Reign of Terror.
Stranger
I have been studying the French Revolution lately. And it is not hard to see, that that which Americans avoided and the English avoided, which is the type of revolution the French had, is coming. Everyone should read of the 'Reign of Terror' at that time.
I watched on PBS yesterday a political interview. One man made a very good point. He said, used to, Democrats and Republicans were political opponents. But now they are enemies. Once you opponent becomes your enemy, that's dangerous.
I believe this has affected the Democratic party more at this time, though the Republican party is affected also. This is why conservatives are viewed as deplorable. This is why Maxine Waters calls for the harrasment of anyone connected with Trump. The atheistic liberal left considers the Christian conservative right as an enemy. They are electing socialists to power. And eventually, what do you do with an enemy? You go to war and try and kill them.
Fransis Schaeffer in his book, (How Shall We Then Live", Fleming H. Revell Co., 1976)makes some very good observations concerning why the French Revolution turned into a 'Reign of Terror', and America's Revolution and England's Bloodless Revolution of 1688 did not. In short it was due to the affects of the Reformation upon the people of England and America.
A vast number of people were becoming born-again. Revivals went back and forth across the ocean. The countries laws were seen as being based on the absolute authority of God and His Words, The Bible. As Schaeffer says of the Reformation in his before mentioned book, "One of the greatest affect it had was the opportunity for tremendous freedom without chaos." (p.105)
He again says, "Thus the biblical insistance on the responsibility of people-even of monarchs-to God's law turned the political tide in those countries where the Reformation emphasis on the Bible as the only final authority took root." (p.108)
But today we turn our government away from the Bible. It is no longer the basis for our right and wrong or the way the government should work. France did not have the Reformation base to curb and define it's revolution. Thus it became chaos, and mass killings and murders. And now we are losing, or should I say, turning away from our Reformation base. Thus it is 'enemies' instead of opponents. And once something triggers it, it will turn into a Reign of Terror.
Stranger
