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Dave Roth is currently serving as the Director of Multihousing Ministries for the York Baptist Association in Rock Hill, S.C. and as Pastor of Midtown Ministries, a new church plant in Rock Hill. He also runs the Seeker's Network website on which he publishes a daily Bible study.
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Thanks to the new universal healthcare bill, America is finally waking up to the heinous plots of many politicians to completely subvert the Constitution of the United States in favor of a new socialist system. Tea Party "Patriots" are taking to the streets and crying, "We the people! We the people!" but what do they really want?
At the Kill the Bill rally in front of congressman John Spratt's office in Rock Hill, SC, I had the opportunity to observe the people who are taking to the streets with their protest signs. As I looked around, I tried to determine why they were there and what they really wanted. The majority of the people were senior citizens, wannabe politicians, and representatives of groups with single issue agendas such as the fair tax. Most of them had no clue to what it would mean to return to the rule of law.
Let me explain. The seniors were there for one reason. They did not want their medicare to be cut and they found the constitutionalist stance to be a useful weapon against the healthcare bill. But, medicare is pure soocialism and, to a pure constitutionalist, is unconstitutional. Where does the constitution authorize the federal government to provide healthcare for seniors? I cannot find anything concerning healthcare among its enumerated powers. If I were to tell these people that abolishing all forms of socialism would mean getting rid of medicare, they would be demonstrating against the constitution. I promise you that everyone of them is collecting a Social Security check every month, too. So what kind of "constitutional" government do they want? The Soviet Union had a constitution, too.
To be fair, some of these seniors were there because of their concern for the out of control spending. They are concerned, and rightfully so, for the future security of their children and grandchildren. But, controling spending, while absolutely necessary, is not going to solve our problems.
Continue reading "Socialism: Pick Your Brand"
 I do not know at what point a civilization begins an irreversible collapse? I am certain, however, that its collapse becomes irreversible sometime after it can no longer answer the question, "What is truth?"
Noah Webster defined truth as, "Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be. The truth of history constitutes its whole value. We rely on the truth of the scriptural prophecies." (Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary of the English Language) That definition has served our nation very well since it was written. I also like Blake's, "Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not believed." [William Blake Proverbs of Hell]
The problem our society has with truth is illustrated in the life of Pontious Pilate, "Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out..." (John 18:38) Pilate did not wait for an answer, because he did not want to know the answer. We have developed a more clever trick for avoiding the truth. We have invented the idea of different realities. Now truth conforms to whatever is real to me, which may not be the same as what is real to you. Now, I ask you how in the world can our nation stay unified with 260,000,000 people functioning in what they believe are 260,000,000 realities? What is truth?
Continue reading "What Is Truth?"
Anyone following politics nowadays knows that the title Liberal has been replaced with the name Progressive. The name itself is not a problem providing that everyone realizes just what it means. In politics, Progressives want to move society toward a utopian existence through the imposition of "social justice," which is just a code word for the redistribution of the wealth. This can only be accomplished by a totalitarian government that is able to suppress the rights of the individuals for the betterment of the collective whole. It, therefore, must stand in opposition to everything Christian and its very existence depends on the suppression of the Christian faith.
Nations and kings have unsuccesfully attempted for over 2000 years to crush the Christian faith. It cannot be done! However, the church can be infiltrated and the tenets of the faith twisted in such a way as to deceive many people. But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
(2 Peter 2:1-2) This is done so gradually as to be unnoticed by most. Last night, for instance, I heard a young Christian man who wants to become a pastor telling a group that he thought a person who died for God's cause before he was born again would go to heaven. I corrected him, of course, by pointing out that you cannot earn your way into God's grace.
Continue reading "Progressivism in the Church"
There has been some exciting talk among the prolife and other freedom loving movements lately. It concerns a mostly previously ignored wording in the Preamble to our federal constitution. It renders Roe v. Wade and many other decisions and laws null and void. The problem will be getting someone to uphold it and honor their oath of office. Let's see if you can recognize what I am talking about."We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Did you catch it? The purpose of the constitution is to "...secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity!
Continue reading "Two Marvellous Little Words"
The founding fathers of our nation recognized God as the Creator from whom we derive our rights... rights that are unalienable, that cannot be separated from us. The unique thing about these rights of ours is that they can be exercised without the need to infringe on the rights of others. Of course, we don't live in a perfect world so there will always be someone who will try to violate the rights of others for their personal gain. Therefore, the founders wrote, "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." (Declaration of Independence)
In other words, the sole purpose of government is the protection of the God given rights of the people who created it. Whenever government tries to do more than this, serious problems arise. Everyone wants their most basic rights protected, but they will rarely agree on anything else. Those who do not want a particular government service are frequently forced by the majority to help pay for it anyway, even if it gives them absolutely no benefits. For this reason, the founding fathers gave us a republican form of governement instead of a democracy. In a democracy, it is too easy for the majority to tyrannize the minority. In a republic it is more difficult. Over the past century, however, shrewd politicians have learned how to slowly dismantle the republic and convert it into a democracy.
Continue reading "Our Generous Government"
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