Posted on 05/24/2014 6:48:40 AM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine
They try to confiscate my land, and they will cease to be.
“We have no intentions of ever being a democracy we will be a a Republic.”
You have a strict religious requirement, as specific as picking and choosing ‘correct’ church doctrine or one particular religion, in order to participate. That’s a theocracy by committee.
The vote for Maine to secede is going to be on June 12, 2018. 100,000 signatures will be needed to get the secession vote on the ballot, for whether the next governor of Maine is Paul LePage, self declared homosexual John Baldacci, or Cutler, a challenge is expected at every turn. Once on the ballot, 12,000 armed and determined members of Maine State Militia will provide secure at the polls to ensure the integrity of the polling places by checking the ID of everyone coming to vote before allowing them in to vote. Those who will not produce ID will be prohibited from entering to vote, their photos are to be taken and sent to a central clearing house. The day of the vote instructions will be given on how to handle absentee ballots.
Hmm, a private pro-secession army will control access to the polls by the public when the very ballot proposal at issue is the secession movement they support.
That sounds great, doesn't it?
Their oath contains a specific reference to the King James Bible too.
What about Seventh Day Adventists and others who consider Saturday to be this Sabbath?
Smell the freedom.
Hmm, let's see.
Our oath; "I pledge my allegiance first to the God of the Bible, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, the one true, and living Triune God. Then to my family and then to Maine. I will not knowingly violate the word of God as articulated in this, my King James Version of the Holy Bible, nor any part of the Constitution of the State of Maine that does not violate God's word."
Looks like the Douay-Rheims Version and the New American Version need not apply.
Hmmm. If I use the NKJV or the NIV, am I unable to take the oath?
You should ask the militiamen blocking the door at your local polling place.
If you are not a Born Again why would you even care? You probably would be happier in the Sudan, or perhaps Israel, or maybe China, India, France or the USA.
I think we know this is going nowhere. In all seriousness, I believe in benevolent autocracy too, with the Lord Jesus Christ as the autocrat. It’s called the Kingdom of God, or the millennium. I’ll be ready when He is. Until then, we need to keep sharing the good news about the Kingdom, and thank God for the freedom we still have.
Post 49 refuted your mistaken assumption that religion will be enforced by a militia; therefore all your complaints in your prior post to me are invalid.
Let us discuss your notion of freedom. Political freedom does not mean that the individual gets to reinvent the absolutes we are born into, such as gravity, physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, and other cosmic forces. These powerful forces were grouped by the U.S. Founders under the name "Natural Law," in recognition that all organic life has transcendent natural attributes and limitations. Unlimited freedom from the moral absolutes arising from Natural absolutes is not humanly possible in the long term. All humans can do, as we are doing presently in the U.S. with fictions such as gay marriage and multicultural equality, is invent legal fictions to suspend the consequences of moral transgressions indefinitely; but the scales will be balanced by the Creator eventually.
The Republic of Maine proposal is for volunteers for freedom in Christ, not freedom from Christ. Those educated in Christianty understand that volunteers in such a project are committed to refounding a Christian nation, as the U.S. was once a Christian nation for its first several centuries, during which it flowered and its people prospered -- unlike now.
That is not to say that this project can and will succeed automatically. There will be great struggles ahead, inevitably, for all mankind now that all nations are globally interconnected 24/7. But I do appreciate the mental exercise of attempting to envisioneer such a project.
We have not finished the land use section, but I can assure you no level of govt is going to confiscate your land.
One week is fine, no one is going to get upset over one week.
It is our plan to give Portsmouth to NH.
What makes you think Fuzz isn’t born again? I didn’t get that impression at all.
This is not a debate forum, it is an invitation for Born Again Christians to move to Maine. As for my casting aspersions on someone's supposed place of origin I have done no such thing. If you read such a thing into it, you are a fool or a trouble maker or have simply made a mistake.
You are wrong.
Happy birthweek to you, happy birthweek to you, happy birthweek, happy birthweek, happy birthweek to you.
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