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Thread ID: 18134 | Posts: 17 | Started: 2005-05-07
2005-05-07 14:50 | User Profile
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[font=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][color=#000000]"*From Alexander the Great to the present, the world of polytheism has no means of a common truth and order except by imperialistic conquest. In such a world, neither order nor meaning have a universal sway; hence, force tries to bind those factors which are held to lack the cohesiveness of truth and a common Creator*." Dr. Rousas Rushdoony
[/color][/font][color=#000000][font=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif] [/font][/color][font=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][color=#000000]Polytheism is the "belief in or worship of many gods, or more than one god". It is a term commonly applied to the several gods of ancient Greece or to the array of deities common to Hinduism.
Monotheism is the worship of one god. Christianity is a monotheistic religion. We worship one God in Trinity - The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost.
God intended ancient Israel to be a monotheistic nation. A truly Christian nation must be monotheistic.
During his April 28th, 2005 news conference our President, George W. Bush, proclaimed before the nation that he seeks a polytheistic society:
[/color][/font] "Role of religion in our society? I view religion as a personal matter. I think a person ought to be judged on how he or she lives his life or lives her life. And that's how I've tried to live my life: through example. Faith plays an important part in my life individually. But I don't ascribe a person's opposing my nominations to an issue of faithââ¬Â¦.The great thing about America is that you should be allowed to worship any way you want. And if you chose not to worship, you're equally as patriotic as somebody who does worship. And if you choose to worship, you're equally American if you're a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim."[font=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][color=#000000]
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[font=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][color=#000000]First, our President believes that religion is a private matter. Second, he believes faith has no bearing on support for his Supreme Court nominations. Third, Americaââ¬â¢s highest visible authority grants equality to Judaism and Islam (and implicitly to other religions) in the public arena.
When the Framers crafted our founding documents and appended the First Amendment, American citizens were overwhelmingly Christian. However, subsequent to the landing of the Pilgrims, Christianity was splintered and various versions proliferated. The Framers were concerned with preventing the government from supporting a particular Christian religion, as had been the case in England.
The Enlightenment had already invaded the fertility of many good minds and several of the Framers were Deists. As a result, the founding documents failed to place the nation under the authority of the Christian God.
President George W. Bush continues to exhibit this inhibited, puerile Christianity.
Jesus said that He would not acknowledge before His Father in Heaven those who fail to acknowledge Him in the public square. The Christian religion is not a private religion. God seeks public recognition and deference.
Throughout the Old Testament His people were chastised for allowing the incurrence of other religions. The First Commandment specifically maintains the singularity required by the One True God. He created everything in Heaven and on Earth - all falls within His dominion. Attempts to confine Him to the interior of churches and the privacy of ones domicile are blasphemous. He is the exclusive God of everyone and everything and should be given first consideration in all phases of public life including the Family, the Church, and the State.
Since law forms the religious base of society, Polytheism is built into the system by the existence of humanistic laws. Humanistic laws enshrine the creature rather than the Creator. When the courts legalize what God forbids, they are not only setting up a foreign religion and a foreign god but are making it impossible for Christians to please their God. The practice of Christianity requires a righteous environment!
President George W. Bush is denying his Savior by recommending His name be a private matter. In a Christian society all other religions would be private and have no bearing on the social order.
Most Americans and many Christians believe with our President that United States should be a polytheistic society. Freedom of religion is interpreted as meaning that America should welcome and embrace citizens of all religions, allowing each to compete with the other - a sort of religious Balkanization.
It is the exclusivity of true Christianity that rankles pagans, nominal Christians, and many American patriots. Secular diversity forces us to recognize and assent to the existence of the gods of other religions. We are forced into henotheism.
Non-secular Jews retain the spirit of the Pharisees. They blindly continue to work out their own salvation in spite of the rebuke of the Diaspora. Practicing Pharisees and many nominal Pharisees who exert great power in American society have been instrumental in fostering polytheism.
Ecumenical movements are essentially polytheistic. They seek to find common ground in the theological realm and to create peace through a dialectical process.
In 1974 David Miller, a professor at Syracuse University, wrote of, "the demise of a monotheistic way of thinking and speaking about God and a monotheistic way of thinking and speaking about human meaning and being generally". Though Miller is a neo-pagan in search of man-made gods he has captured the essence of our dilemma - polytheism is everywhere.
Not only is it futile to attempt to bring righteousness into a polytheistic social order but most of those involved in the attempt do not know exactly what righteousness they seek to restore.
The Rushdoony quotation at the beginning of this essay is taken from the first chapter of his book Christianity and the State published in 1986. Today, we can plainly see Polytheism bringing about imperialism in America. We have embarked on a course of tyranny at home and military conquest abroad.
All religions seek exclusivity. The nature of belief in an ultimate source of power requires separation from those who believe otherwise. A diverse, multicultural agenda popular today among elite intellectuals is compatible with polytheism and since it is impossible for Christians to live a righteous life under a heretical plan, the Christian Church has been extensively afflicted.
Dr. Rushdoony writes in the First Chapter of The Institutes of Biblical Law, "To hold, as the churches do, Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, Calvinist, and all others virtually, that the law was good for Israel, but that Christians and the church are under grace and without law, or under some higher, newer law, is implicit polytheism".
There is One God and He has given us One set of Laws. The Paraclete provides forgiveness and advocates for us but the blessing of God requires obedience and obedience requires Law.
God seeks exclusive power over His creation and over His people. American Christians and the churches they attend are lost sheep. They have strayed. He reaches out to stubborn sheep who, though stupid, regularly refuse the wisdom of His Fold[/color][/font]
2005-05-07 18:19 | User Profile
=== The Framers were concerned with preventing the government from supporting a particular Christian religion, as had been the case in England.
Supporting? Establishing was more like it.
2005-05-07 23:48 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robert ]Diluting Belief In Sovereignty of One True God - By Al Cronkrite
God intended ancient Israel to be a monotheistic nation. A truly Christian nation must be monotheistic. [/QUOTE]Worshiping the Semetic God is fine for Israel! As Pope Pius XI stated: "Anti-Semitism is inadmissible, spiritually we are all Semites."
Once again, we are told that we MUST choose either the Judeo-Christian tradition, the New Age movement, or secular humanism as our faith, - Great choice - Thanks - But No thanks!
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[QUOTE=askel5]=== The Framers were concerned with preventing the government from supporting a particular Christian religion, as had been the case in England. Supporting? Establishing was more like it.[/QUOTE]TJ was a very wise man!
[color=navy]Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.[/color] [color=navy]-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT., Jan. 1, 1802[/color]
[color=navy]History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.[/color] [color=navy]-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.[/color]
[color=navy]They [the clergy] believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion.[/color] [color=navy]-Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800[/color] [color=navy] [/color]
2005-05-08 00:28 | User Profile
[B][I] - "As Pope Pius XI stated: "Anti-Semitism is inadmissible, spiritually we are all Semites." [/I][/B]
Stupid statement in itself, as if an anachronistic linguistic term ("Semites") would have anything to do with spiritual matters anyways.
Petr
2005-05-08 01:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Petr] - "As Pope Pius XI stated: "Anti-Semitism is inadmissible, spiritually we are all Semites."
Stupid statement in itself, as if an anachronistic linguistic term ("Semites") would have anything to do with spiritual matters anyways.
Petr[/QUOTE][color=blue]The Pope[s] are many things, but "stupid" they are not![/color]
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[/size] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=navy]The mandate for the Second Vatican Council to study thoroughly the relationship of the Church to the Jewish people came from Pope John XXIII. It expressed more than a mere gesture of goodwill and sympathy. There was a theological understanding there, which Pope John expressed when he received, in October 1960, a group of American Jews, and greeted them with the biblical words, "I am Joseph, your brother". [/color][/size][/font][size=2]
[/size] [font=Verdana][size=2][color=navy]In a certain way, Pope John echoed then what Pope Pius XI had told a group of Belgian pilgrims on 6 September 1938, namely that we Christians are spiritually Semites; and he anticipated what Pope John Paul II would tell the Jews of Rome during his visit to their synagogue:[u] "You are our dearly beloved brothers and, in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers".[/u][/color][/size][/font] [size=1]
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2005-05-08 13:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE] Worshiping the Semetic God is fine for Israel! [/QUOTE] There is only one God, Knute. And like it or not, He demands that you bow the knee to His Son.
Deism is a one-way ticket to Hell.
I tell you, I'm not holding out much hope for the white race. I agree that whites should stand up for themselves against all the bullying of the Jews, blacks and Mexicans. But until whites bow the knee to Christ, they have no meaningful alternative to offer. As whites turn to paganism, they become just as much a part of the problem as all these other groups.
2005-05-08 15:45 | User Profile
[I][B] - "But until whites bow the knee to Christ, they have no meaningful alternative to offer. As whites turn to paganism, they become just as much a part of the problem as all these other groups."[/B][/I]
That is the harsh truth, Robert. You can't defeat something with nothing.
Petr
2005-05-08 18:13 | User Profile
So true Petr. I'm just feeling compelled to tell people the truth in blunt terms. Our civilization is at a crossroads. And that Satan, he's a sly one. Use the Jews to attack Christian civilization. But, then, deceive whites into believing that Christless philosophies are the way to strike back. Satan is snaring people right and left, and dragging them down to Hell.
For instance, I've come down hard on Angler lately. I don't hate or dislike the guy. But I feel like he needs a sledgehammer to the head to wake up.
People have got to hear the honest truth whether they like it or not. Jeremiah had to tell the Hebrews the truth, and they hated him for it. There were times he wanted to quit. But God's truth burned within him, and would not let him rest. And just like Jeremiah, we can't rest either.
2005-05-08 18:51 | User Profile
[B][I] - "And that Satan, he's a sly one. Use the Jews to attack Christian civilization. But, then, deceive whites into believing that Christless philosophies are the way to strike back. Satan is snaring people right and left, and dragging them down to Hell."[/I] [/B]
[I]A pincer movement[/I]. Satan might indeed be using Jews to drive desperate Whiteys straight into the arms of paganism.
Never think that the Adversary can attack on one front only.
Examples of classic devilish two-front offensive: the mock fight between legalism and antinomianism, between atheistic materialism and pantheistic mysticism.
Petr
2005-05-09 23:57 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robert] [font=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][size=1][color=#2f4f2f]Diluting Belief In Sovereignty of One True God [/color][/size][/font][font=Palatino, Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif][size=1][color=#000000]By Al Cronkrite [/color][/size][/font]
Hey, if you want to worship the God of Israel that's OK by me.[/color][/size][/font]
[font=Book Antiqua][size=3][color=navy]Worshiping the Semetic God, or not, is fine if you are a Jew...[/color][/size][/font]
[font=Book Antiqua][size=3][color=navy]But if you are not a Jew carefully consider this quote.[/color][/size][/font]
[font=Book Antiqua][size=3][color=navy][font=Verdana][color=purple]"How odd of God to choose the Jews. Yet odder still for those who choose ** a Jewish God but spurn the Jews." [/color][/font][/color][/size][/font] [font=Book Antiqua][size=3][color=navy][font=Verdana][color=#800080][/color][/font]**
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2005-05-10 00:11 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robert]There is only one God, Knute. And like it or not, He demands that you bow the knee to His Son.
Deism is a one-way ticket to Hell.
I tell you, I'm not holding out much hope for the white race. I agree that whites should stand up for themselves against all the bullying of the Jews, blacks and Mexicans. But until whites bow the knee to Christ, they have no meaningful alternative to offer. As whites turn to paganism, they become just as much a part of the problem as all these other groups.[/QUOTE]
Well Robert, like Jesus I am also the son of God but of course like Jesus I am unable to show any birth certificate. maybe you have his and my birth certificate handy?
2005-05-10 01:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]Well Robert, like Jesus I am also the son of God but of course like Jesus I am unable to show any birth certificate. maybe you have his and my birth certificate handy?[/QUOTE] Ponce, you can become a son of God if you give your heart and life to the Son of God. But until you turn to Christ, you are not a child God. If you reject Christ, you will remain a bastard.
2005-05-10 01:19 | User Profile
Knute, you have been deceived. Turn around.
2005-05-10 01:34 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robert]Knute, you have been deceived. [/QUOTE][color=Navy]
Robert,
I ask you to, please, be specific as to what you think I have been decieved about.
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2005-05-13 04:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Robert]Knute, you have been deceived. [/QUOTE][color=navy]
Robert,
I ask you to, please, be specific as to what you think I have been decieved about.
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2005-05-13 14:01 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Knute][color=navy]
Robert,
I ask you to, please, be specific as to what you think I have been decieved about.
[/color][/QUOTE] You do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
2005-05-15 02:49 | User Profile
[font=Book Antiqua][size=2][color=navy] [font=Arial]Hey, if you want to worship the God of Israel that's OK by me.[/font][/color][/size][/font][size=2]
[/size] [font=Arial][size=2][color=navy]But if you are not a Jew carefully consider an aryan alternative. There are many... here's a very good one.[/color][/size][/font]
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[left]**[font=arial, helvettica][color=#800000]Cosmotheism[/color][/font][font=arial, helvettica][color=black] is a religion which positively asserts there is an internal meaning and purpose in life and in the cosmos. There is an essential unity, or consciousness that binds all living beings and all of the inorganic cosmos, as one.
[/color][/font][/left] [left][/left] [left][font=arial, helvettica][color=black]And what our true identity is this:
[/color][/font][/left] [left] [/left] [left][font=arial, helvettica][color=black]We are the cosmos, made self-aware and self-conscious by evolution. Our undeniable human purpose, is to know and to complete ourselves as conscious individuals, and also as a self-aware species, and thereby to co-evolve with the cosmos towards total and universal awareness, and towards the ever-higher perfection of consciousness and being.
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