Posted on 12/02/2012 2:12:33 PM PST by Mount Athos
There are only two classes now: Christians and Romans.
If you are called an extremist, if you revere an old document created long ago by people known as founders, if you lack that old motivation to produce because of unending taxes, fees, regulations and other barriers, if you have to pay more attention to rules than customers, and if you are disillusioned enough to consider going underground, searching for ways to hide or reduce your business, your income, or just preserve your wealth (whats left of it), then you are a Christian regardless of any religious affiliation. The Tea Party is Christian.
For modern Christians, for the moment, welcome to the Catacombs of 2013. Underground has taken on a new meaning, but the purpose is the same: survive, wait for an opportunity, pick them off from time to time, and be patientthey will be defeated by their own doing.
The ancient Romans persecuted Christians ruthlessly for hundreds of years while becoming so arrogant, and so immune from reality that they self-destructed financially, having destroyed themselves morally generations prior. It took the Christians about 300 years to be able to leave their catacombs behind, replace Christianity where Romans used to rule, and to ultimately dominate the culture and landscape of the West.
America has wandered so far from its founding principles as to be unrecognizable. What used to be a tapestry of individuals accomplishing little things by themselves, and big things collectively, all done freelywith self-determination and creativity propelling them to greatness has become (temporarily) a collective controlled by masters of perception. This cycle of control will fail out of its sheer weight of stupidity, immorality and applied ignorance.
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In the end the Roman Empire became Christian so that Romaoi = Christian
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