At the core of a rather pieced together rant is the thought that Jesus was Crucified specially for speaking out against taxes on the Jews. Although there is some thought to the contrary.
The author then uses this reason to extol Christians to stand up to the United States Government and it’s “illegal taxes” (with out any evidence that taxes ARE illegal, which is slightly remedied in the comments) to over throw the “corrupt leaders.” The case for Revolution is thin, but the use of Gerald Celente’s predictions of a revolution by 2012 anyways help ease the conscience somewhat.
The really scary part of this rant happens in the comment section. The most pointed one being from “Michael” who claims that the NSA’s mind control weapons would make Revolution impossible anyways.
While on the surface no or lower taxes would be a good thing, the problem is that those Taxes provide a lot of services that are severely needed by the country. Services that got us into the position of being a First World country. Without the Highway system, goods could not move as fast as they do. Response times to emergencies would be much longer.
We would also need to worry about the lack of a Police force or Military. Like it or not, a lot of the World IS out to get us. Without taxes to pay for those services we would much closer to anarchy then many other countries. The Wild West was wild for a reason. Imagine that multiplied by even a fraction of today’s population and things would be looking VERY bad for the United States in general.
Is a revolution needed? Not yet I say. Obama hasn’t had time to start making a difference yet. Want to have a revolution? Do it on the political side to disrupt the least amount of people’s lives. There are many people who are fine with it the way it is.
Just remember to keep the religion out of the politics, and the politics out of the religion.
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Comments well taken. I think we are approaching a time when the people must take their government back. I also think we are or were great because we are or were good, and our goodness flowed from the Judeo-Christian ethic. It is a nuanced argument that would have our greatness preserved by this ethic without violating separating church and state, but informed and reasonable people understand and embrace that nuance. Otherwise, the words of John Adams echo forward and apply:
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.”
John Adams, Thoughts on Government 1776
PS: We need to keep it simple. There is enough to deal with without going off on all these crazy rabbit trails and your point is very well taken there too.
Onward!
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