Left Aims to Smite 'Theocracy' Movement

Wanna know why I'm a conservative? Because all the things my parents predicted the social revolution of the 60s would bring have come true... rampant VD, pregnancy, ignorance, illiteracy, lack of morals, killing of innocence, calling good bad and bad good. The world has turned upside down, and there are those democrats telling us it's better this way. In a pigs eye it's better this way. I wouldn't mind a theocracy at this point, because we have to get things under control and it's going to take a strong man to do it. I suggest that those that don't like it taste the sting of the lash. But maybe that's just me.

And once again I say - there can be no Christian theocracy until The Christ reigns on earth. It's a silly discussion these Leftists like to have, without any understanding. Besides, who told them to fear the coming wrath, anyway?

Well, that depends on whether the Jesus we worship is a guru, or Lord. A "guru" exerts influence over the inner/subjective/private/imaginary/spiritual realm. A Lord demands public fealty, in every zone of life.

For the record, the vanishing legacy of common law is explicitly theocratic, and assumes that a jury of 12 randomly selected "good men and true" who swear an oath to the God of the Bible, with their right hands on the Bible, to uphold the standard of justice found in the Bible, can be trusted to administer justice.

True, as Harold Berman demonstrates, common law has been systematically and deliberately supplanted over the last 150 years or so by statute law, the law of the lawyers, rather than the law of God. Rather than 10 commandments, and around 600 case law applications of those commandements in the Bible, we get a telephone book's worth of new lawyer-made laws every day taht all of us are theoretically obliged to obey. Rather like the Nazi and Soviet philosophy of law -- make enough of them to ensure that everyone is always guilty of something.

Jesus rules today, directly in answer to our prayers, and indirectly through fathers, pastors, and magistrates. Pre-1789 America was a confederation of 12 explicitly Christian nations, and one humanist republic.

The whole world (and the world's system) is under the control of the evil one today. (I John 5:19)

We will not see a real theocracy until Messiah reigns on earth. That is not the case in this age, with the exception of those in whose hearts His Spirit now dwells. And those who live under rules of a guru, gods, or idols do not attain a theocracy for the simple fact that there is One higher than any of these - a God above all gods. I don't even count the rule of law BASED on the laws of God to be a theocracy, because these are administered by sinful man who knows nothing close to the perfect justice that is a Holy God.

I suppose the argument could be chalked up to semantics, but those on the Left have no idea what they are talking about when they throw around the term "theocracy." When they use the term, they bring it down to a level they can understand and then attack. If they truly understood what it was to live under the authority of the High King of Heaven, they would beg for it. Instead, they reject Him, want nothing to do with Him, and will therefore be granted their heart's desire in that day.

"And I saw a beast rising out of the sea..." Revelation 13:1

The "sea" is interpreted as the realm of politics. The beast is the AntiChrist.

"The beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words..." Revelation 13:5

The people working against the "Christian" threat are the children of the beast.

To the left the word "evangelicals" conjures up images of Bible thumping charlatans. They think the word has the same effect on the masses.

I believe you are right, that the Left think "evangelical" and "Religious Right" are pejorative terms to the mainstream voter. What they fail to realize, is that a majority of the voters either ARE evangelical, by self-description, or at least are perfectly comfortable with them. It's sort of like the intellectualoids who think they are insulting GW by calling him a "cowboy."

Most of us plain Americans like cowboys, and evangelicals, just fine, thanks.

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