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America’s Fall: The Modern-Day Roman Empire
Townhall.com ^ | September 2, 2013 | Matt Barber

Posted on 09/02/2013 10:53:13 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/02/2013 10:53:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Spot on ^5
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2 posted on 09/02/2013 10:56:42 AM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Kaslin
This is my take as well.

We either turn this ship of state around, or we're done for.

It will come sooner than we think too.

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3 posted on 09/02/2013 10:57:37 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Kaslin
The Apostle Paul likely wrote his letter to the Romans about 25 years after Christ’s death and resurrection (sometime between A.D. 55-57). Throughout the book of Romans, Paul warned of God’s unfolding wrath against the Roman Empire – indeed, all of humanity – for mankind’s embrace and practice of pagan morality. It is unbridled hubris that presumes America – lest she depart the wide path to ancient Rome – will not suffer that empire’s same fate.Well, God seemed to work pretty slowly back then.

Depending on how you figure it, his judgment against Rome too 400 or 1400 years to work out.

4 posted on 09/02/2013 10:59:30 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Kaslin

If you track NASA’s accomplishments, you can almost see America’s rise and fall. The Apollo missions were the high point for America and we’ve declined since that time. The female liberation movement and ‘the single mom’ began the emasculation of boys (including 0bama himself) which is now deeply entrenched.. just the way the tyrannical government wants it. No one available to fight back. Goodbye America.


5 posted on 09/02/2013 11:02:46 AM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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6 posted on 09/02/2013 11:04:41 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Kaslin

President George Washington and our founders knew how important the favor of God is to have a successful outcome.
This current regime and so many arrogant know-it-alls snub their noses thinking they don’t need Him. A dangerous and destructive way of thinking.


7 posted on 09/02/2013 11:05:50 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: Kaslin; PowerBaby; NattieShea
As written by FReepers PowerBaby and Nattieshea: Liberty Follows Virtue: How Personal Values Ordained the Rise and Fall of Rome
8 posted on 09/02/2013 11:07:53 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America; fieldmarshaldj

The 60’s hippies started messing up the country before the Apollo 1.

And of the makings of modern big government started way back in the 1910’s.


9 posted on 09/02/2013 11:15:49 AM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Carry_Okie

Proud member of the Masada Wing of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy..

Be careful how much freedom we give our elected officials less they end up hanging us all.. CONgre$$ has become irrelevant,, at least when GOP interests prevail,, otherwise, most leaders are gutless, sold out, pension secure, sad

Salute to my brother in the hills, we may be joining y’all real soon.. Too bad Bart don’t go there..

How you say in Latin

W.A.S.S.


10 posted on 09/02/2013 11:22:37 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: DoughtyOne

I fear it’s too late.


11 posted on 09/02/2013 11:23:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

Rome’s depravity grew as the Empire grew, as the power of the City of Rome grew, as the power of Caesar grew, as its people became subjects vs. citizens.

To fix this problem in the USA, we need to end the growth of the American Empire, limit the power of Washington, restore freedom, and above all, restore responsibility to the citizen.


12 posted on 09/02/2013 11:23:23 AM PDT by PGR88
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Someone give this writer a history book. He can start with Gibbons. Nothing burns my rear more than someone spouting comic book history. The actual facts are fascinating. It can be said the Western Roman state collapse, the Eastern lasted to the discovery of America, was insignificant in that Roman culture endured. The new “barbarian” kings might have replaced the old political order, but they considered themselves a part of Roman culture, not a replacement. Every time you pass a Roman Catholic Church you are seeing a piece of the late Roman Empire.


13 posted on 09/02/2013 11:24:37 AM PDT by gusty
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So do I. Believing in the Bible as I do, it seemed to me this day was coming. I just can’t believe how fast we went from Reagan to Clinton to Obama.

It’s almost impossible to fully grasp the significance.


14 posted on 09/02/2013 11:25:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (This post coming to you today from behind the Camelskin Curtain. Not the Iron or Bamboo Curtain...)
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To: Carry_Okie

Great work


15 posted on 09/02/2013 11:27:59 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Overall, a good article, but I would take acception to his comment that God has written His truths on the hearts of EVERY man, woman, and child...Jew, Gentile, and pagan (Romans 1:18-20.

Rather, the passage is speaking about men who have a knowledge about God that is based on His creation, and who have suppressed in in unrighteousness. This knowledge about God is evident within [Or, among] them, God having made it evident to them by what He has made. This knowledge is described in v. 20 as God’s invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, that have been clearly seen and understood through the creation, so that they are without excuse. These are men who worship and serve the creature rather than the Creator, v. 25. Their practices are described in the passage.

God has revealed Himself in 3 ways: 1) Through Creation, 2) Through His Word, the Bible, and 3)Through His Son.

As far as God’s writing on the hearts of men [within]—this is a promise of the New Covenant to the remnant of Israel in the last days, described in Jeremiah 31:31-34:

31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.

33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

This is the same new covenant that all believers since the cross, both Jew and Gentile, up to this very day, come into by Christ’s sacrifice on our behalf for the forgiveness of our sins. All who repent of their sins and turn to God through His only provision for forgiveness, the Lord Jesus Christ, enter into the new covenant. The new covenant is in Christ’s blood, which was poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.

The promise to the Jewish nation, of the law within, written on their hearts, is yet to be fulfilled. It will be fulfilled when Yeshua returns. Jeremiah is not the only passage in the Old Testament that speaks of this; Ezekiel 36:25-38 also speak of the same day...and there are other passages as well.

God has not forgotten Israel and will fulfill ALL of His promises to the believing remnant—AND the church HAS NOT replaced Israel (read Romans 9, 10, and 11).


16 posted on 09/02/2013 11:40:07 AM PDT by TurkeyLurkey
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To: Kaslin

The American nation has grown.

But the arrogance and ego of our politicians has grown exponentially.

They have come to believe they ARE the nation.

To them the citizens are like milk cows who sometimes forget their place.


17 posted on 09/02/2013 11:47:41 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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Ever read 'The Harbinger'? The author lays out exactly what is going to happen, and when, based on some verses in Isaiah. It's pretty clear-cut: We're screwed, barring national revival.
18 posted on 09/02/2013 11:52:53 AM PDT by Othniel (No, I don't have a plan. And doesn't that scare you to death?)
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To: Kaslin

The Modern Romans? Garner Ted Armstrong, call your office...


19 posted on 09/02/2013 11:56:55 AM PDT by MSF BU (n)
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thanks, they were 12 & 13 at the time they wrote it.

One is now doing microbiological research at Stanford. The other is on a full academic scholarship at Utah State, a teaching fellow at the age of 19.

20 posted on 09/02/2013 11:57:54 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers choices: convert, submit, or die.)
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