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We ask you to read the five most important books in the history of Christian Civilization.
The first book is, obviously, the Bible. The four other books are designed to help you understand the Bible.
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western Civilization. It is also the book more people own but have never read. Yet these same people have dogmatic opinions about the nature of the Bible and what it says. Because you are a victim of educational malpractice, and lack a colonial American education, you may have erroneous pre-conceived ideas about the Bible that close your mind to the conclusions to which we are trying to lead you. You may doubt our credibility and reliability to the point where you will not be persuaded by anything we say about the Bible. Therefore we will require you to read four (4) other works which are widely regarded as being among the most important in the history of Western Civilization. Reading these four works, in addition to the Bible, will re-create a colonial American education in just one year. These four credible, reliable, and time-honored works will abundantly confirm our "anarchist" interpretation of the Bible and the human condition. We will show you how to download these works for free from the Internet.
Success experts like Brian Tracy say you should read for an hour a day in your chosen field to be successful (that's more than a dozen books a year). George Washington read the Bible for an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Your "chosen field" was chosen for you by God: to be an extraordinary human being. If you can't read just four of the most important books in the history of Western Civilization next year (in addition to the Bible), you'll never be a success in the human race.
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At a time when the total population of America was only four million people, it is estimated that some five million copies of the "Westminster Shorter Catechism" were available in the colonies. Historian Richard Gardiner writes:
The Westminster Catechism was not only a central part of the colonial educational curriculum, learning it was required by law. Each town employed an officer whose duty was to visit homes to hear the children recite the Catechism. The primary schoolbook for children, the New England Primer, included the Catechism. Daily recitations of it were required at these schools. Their curriculum included memorization of the Westminster Confession and the Westminster Larger Catechism. There was not a person at Independence Hall in 1776 who had not been exposed to it, and most of them had it spoon fed to them before they could walk.
It takes approximately 11 minutes per day to read through the Bible from cover to cover. It only takes a couple of minutes to read through the Westminster Catechisms and Confession. They were written around 1645 and the drafters unequivocally opposed anarchism. But they believed that God is God, and denied that the State is God, a necessary first step on your road to becoming an anarchist.
Many people today believe that the government produces wealth. Others
want the government to redistribute wealth ("spread the wealth") to special
interests. Such people wouldn't even entertain the idea of abolishing the
government, much less actively work toward that goal. "The government can give us
whatever we want if we just vote the most generous and compassionate politicians into
office." Adam Smith would be appalled at such ignorance and immorality. Smith
taught ethics at the University of Glasgow and wrote a Theory
of Moral Sentiments
Smith's book is not easy reading. A more recent treatise is: Capitalism
America became the most prosperous and admired nation in history because
it was a nation "Under God."
In short, America was a Christian Theocracy. Today the word "theocracy"
conjures up images of Islamic terrorists and mullahs. People think of
"theocracy" as a police state governed by priests. This is
inaccurate. The word "theocracy" comes from two Greek words, theos,
meaning "God," and a Greek word meaning "rule." A theocracy
where God rules is a nation "under
God." America has always
been known as "one nation Under God," and therefore America has always
been a Christian Theocracy.
But there are good theocracies and there are bad ones. A nation can be attempting to be
a Christian Theocracy and do a very poor job of it. We do not believe that a good
Christian Theocracy is a police state. We believe a good Christian Theocracy is one
where all the priests and princes have resigned and gotten real jobs where they serve
others.
A Christian Theocracy seeks to give God all the glory. It's hard to see that God rules
when the State claims to be the Messiah.
Americans today have been misled by the myth of "the Separation of Church and
State." This mythical idea -- not found anywhere in the Constitution -- has come to
mean the separation of God and State, with God being separated into the private
world of fantasy and imagination, and the State having omnipotent
power in "the real world."
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The great conflict in Western Civilization today is whether our world will become
| • | an Islamic theocracy, |
| • | an atheistic theocracy (where man thinks he is his own god, but the omnipotent secular State wields total, crushing power), |
| • | or whether America will again be a "City upon a Hill," persuading the world to become a peaceful, global Christian Theocracy -- the kind described by the Prophet Micah. |
The fourth reading assignment will be the history of Christian Theocracy
and "Western Civilization."
Hundreds of years before Christ, the
prophet Daniel spoke of the first Christmas, Christ's coming in the days of the
Roman Empire. That empire was destroyed, and Christian Theocracy began growing. The
Emperor Justinian began Christianizing the Eastern Roman Empire, and in the West kings
like Alfred and Ethelbert made the 10 Commandments the basis of new legal systems. The
"Common Law" began, with a
Christian foundation, and eventually found its way into the Constitution of the
United States, "a Christian nation." No one book adequately chronicles this
history, so we will read from a number of books that try:
Excerpts from these books are freely available on the Internet. Only one
of the authors agrees with our anarchist conclusions, but their arguments lead to our
conclusions if consistently held.
There are two stories that need to be told:
The first is how Christianity
destroyed the slavery and paganism of the
Roman Empire and brought "Liberty Under God," the foundation of
"Western Civilization" (476 A.D.- 1517 A.D.).
The second story is the story of
America, and how
• Calvinism created America
(1517 - 1787)
• America apostatized into an atheistic empire (1787 - 2008)
• and -- hopefully -- how America repented and became an anarchist-theocracy
(2010 - ????).
To begin this second story, we will assign the reading of the Supreme Court's opinion in
the 1892 Decision Holy Trinity
Church vs. The United States and all the historic legal documents cited by the
Court.
This book is simply a catalog of all New Testament prophecies concerning "the second coming." The result of looking at all the evidence will be a "paradigm shift."
Other objections will be prescribed an appropriate remedy on an individual basis.
