Evan Jellicoe said in post #1:
Why should Christians care about politics?
Christians
shouldn't care about politics. For politics are just part of the only-temporary stuff that doesn't matter eternally (2 Corinthians 4:18).
Nonetheless, it's hard for Christians to ignore that America's own government (in its Deep State) wants to restore George III's tyranny, by ignoring the Fourth Amendment, Constitutional right to privacy from unreasonable searches. That is, it wants to be able to continually spy on everyone without a warrant, just like George III wanted to do.
And now the U.S. government has gone after the First Amendment's freedom of religion by requiring Christians to support abortions and same-sex marriages. For example, a Christian pharmacy has to sell the morning-after abortion pill, and a Christian bakery has to make a cake for a homosexual wedding.
But the government's anti-Christian agenda will hopefully abate for a few years under Trump. Yet it will still eventually return, and reach a crescendo, possibly under a President Elizabeth Warren and a Supreme Court she will have packed with anti-Christian justices (after enough conservative justices have had "heart attacks", like poor Scalia too-conveniently did right before an important case which would have severely limited abortion access).
For the Supreme Court will eventually outlaw even
speaking against homosexuality or abortion, calling it "hate speech", thereby further negating the First Amendment. The way this will be done is by claiming speech against homosexuality or abortion presents a "clear and present danger" (Schenck v. U.S.) to homosexuals and abortion clinics, as such speech could lead to violent attacks against them, such as the mass shooting at the Pulse gay-nightclub in Orlando, or when a man attacked an abortion clinic claiming to be "a warrior for the babies". Of course, from a pacifist's point of view, nothing about Romans 1:26-27, for example, contradicts Matthew 5:39. So simply saying homosexuality is a sin in no way supports violence. But the connection could still be made by a future, anti-Christian Supreme Court as a means to squelch Biblical Christians' Constitutional rights to free speech and religion.
Could then the war-makers among the U.S. populace (that is, as opposed to its pacifists) call for a "NEW American Revolution", this time a violent overthrowing of the U.S. government, especially its Supreme Court, in order to restore the Constitutional freedoms of religion, speech, and privacy?
Or, the war-makers could just be more patient, and wait a little bit longer (peacefully) for Jesus Christ to return from heaven and rule the world (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6).
For any violent rebellion against the U.S. government will simply be quashed (compare the pathetic end of the Burns, Oregon standoff). For Obama's firing of hundreds of generals, and then the JADE HELM exercises, could all have been precisely to prepare for the day when the U.S.'s own federal military forces will be ordered to wipe out all armed militias throughout the U.S. (thereby negating yet another amendment, the Second), calling the militias "an imminent threat to national security", that is, an imminent threat to a future, anti-Christian federal government, which will want to help prepare the way for the future Antichrist's world takeover (Revelation 13:7-18).
But before the Antichrist takes over the world and makes armed rebellion against him impossible (Revelation 13:4b,7), and even before the U.S. government has wiped out all armed militias in the U.S., could such militias unite across the country, and rise up together at the same time, declaring their all-out rebellion against the federal government, because of its tyranny? And could they try to justify their rebellion in a document, which could have points laid out in a structure and wording similar to the Declaration of Independence, which they could call the:
"NEW Declaration of Independence
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the People of a great nation to dissolve the political bands which have being placed upon them by a federal power, and to restore the freedoms which the Laws of Nature and Nature's God have entitled the People, it is reasonable to expect the People to declare the specific causes which have impelled them to violent rebellion.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
"That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Freedom and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a Government, and to provide new guards for their Freedom and Happiness.
"Such has been the patient suffering of the People of these United States, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to abolish their present system of federal government. The recent history of this government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the People of these United States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world:
"The government has refused its assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. For the government has trampled upon even the highest laws of these United States, embodied in our Constitution. For the Fourth Amendment declares the right of the People to be free from all unreasonable searches, and no warrants shall be issued except on probable cause. Yet the government now, with the help of computers and compliant corporations, continually spies on all the People, and without any probable cause. For it tracks everywhere the People go through their cell phones, via 'stingray' devices and compliant cell phone corporations, and through license-plate reading cameras set up at major intersections and on patrolling police cruisers. And the government tracks every letter, magazine, catalog, or package the People send or receive through the U.S. Mail, Federal Express, UPS, DHL, or any other courier, through the compliance of these companies. And the government tracks everything the People buy with a credit or debit card, through compliant bank, credit card, and retail companies. And it tracks the People's Ad Choices and Catalog lists, and even sometimes makes insulting additions to them.
"And the government tracks everything the People watch on cable TV or the internet, through compliant cable, telecom, ISP, and internet companies and forums. And it tracks everything the People post on the internet. And it tracks every website and web page they view. And it tracks every phone call they make. And it tracks everything they say or hear on every phone call. And it tracks everything they do in public places by employing facial recognition and spy cameras in almost every store and restaurant, and while walking along public streets. And it listens in on everything they say in their homes, cars, or anywhere else, by remotely and secretly tapping into the microphones on their cell phones, landline phones, computers, televisions, smart speakers, home-security devices, automobile-navigation devices, etc., so that the Fourth Amendment right to Privacy for the People has been completely obliterated by the government.
"Also, the government has taken advantage of compliant intelligence and oversight committees in Congress, and a horrible FISA bill which created a secret, rubber-stamp, FISA court, a veritable Star Chamber, without any effective oversight by the People, in order to take away the People's Fourth Amendment rights, under the guise of 'judicial warrants'. The FISA bill also allowed for unlimited, unwarranted, 'backdoor' snooping on U.S. citizens through its Section 702 loophole. So the U.S. government (like the Stasi before it) has created extensive dossiers on tens of thousands of its citizens who are completely innocent legally. (The Founders are turning in their graves.) Also, these dossiers leave these citizens open to blackmail regarding private matters, by unscrupulous people in the government (even very high up), and by unscrupulous people in government contractors who are given access to these dossiers.
"Also, the government has secretly handed over the personal information (including the weekly and daily schedules) of some U.S. citizens to 'friendly' foreign intelligence agencies who see these citizens as potential threats to their national security. In this way, the government has exposed these U.S. citizens to surveillance and possibly even murder by foreign intelligence agencies operating (with the knowledge and consent of the government) on U.S. soil. The government allows such a setup as this so it can, in turn, surveil, and even murder, citizens of foreign 'friendly' nations, in their own countries, if it deems these foreigners to be dangerously hostile to U.S. national security.
"Also, the government has trampled the First Amendment, which declares the government shall institute no law which prohibits the free exercise of religion. For the government has created and enforced laws, through the Supreme Court, with no assent from the People in Congress, requiring Christians to support abortions and same-sex marriages. For example, a Christian pharmacy has to sell the morning-after abortion pill, and a Christian bakery has to make a cake for a homosexual wedding.
"Also, the government [will] have trampled on the First Amendment's declaration the government shall institute no law which abridges the freedom of speech. For the government [will] have created and enforced laws, through the Supreme Court, with no assent from the People in Congress, forbidding any speech which says homosexuality or abortion is sinful, calling it 'hate speech', even though the Bible shows homosexuality is sinful (Romans 1:26-27), and unborn children have consciousness (Luke 1:41).
"Also, the government [will] have trampled on the Second Amendment, which declares the government shall institute no law which infringes on the right of the People to keep and bear arms. For the government [will] have created and enforced laws, through the Supreme Court, with no assent from the People in Congress, forbidding any civilian to own or use any firearm at any time.
"In every stage of these Oppressions, we the People have petitioned for redress. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A government which is thus marked by every act which may define Tyranny is unfit to rule a free People.
"We, therefore, the People of these United States of America, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World, the Almighty God, for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the People, solemnly publish and declare the Freedom of the People, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the U.S. federal government. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor."
At some point in our future, could millions of "patriots" in armed militias across the U.S. add their John Hancocks to such a document as this, not realizing by doing so they will only make themselves liable to being arrested, tortured, and murdered by the federal government?
Better to leave politics alone, and be arrested, tortured, and murdered not for being violent, or for promoting violence, but rather for being a pacifist, and for promoting the peace, love, and faith of Jesus Christ and His Biblical Gospel (Matthew 24:9, Mark 8:34-38).
Maranatha, Come, Lord Jesus Christ, and rule upon the earth (Revelation 19:7 to 20:6, Revelation 22:17a,20).
1 Peter 1:24 ¶For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
