Inflation and the Love of Money

Rev. R.J. Rushdoony

According to D. B. Knox, “The view of the Old Testament and of the New Testament is that wealth is a blessing from God.”¹ A statement like that is very upsetting to many modern churchmen, who are bent on establishing wealth as a mark of sin. Some ministers have maintained that to make more than $30,000 a year is sinful; other churchmen, whose salaries perhaps approach that sum, have set the sinful level somewhat higher! Abraham, blessed by God, was made rich (Gen. 13:2). Psalm 112:1–3 declares,

1. Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
2. His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
3. Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever.

Men are called to be faithful in the use of wealth (Luke 16:11), and to be liberal toward those in need (1 Tim. 6:18). Riches are a blessing to be enjoyed, but with a sense of responsibility (1 Tim. 6:17–18). We are not to trust in our wealth but in the Lord (Ps. 62); those who trust in their wealth or riches are denounced (Luke 6:24–25; James 5:1–6), and their trust is productive of evil.

However, the Bible does not say that wealth leads to sin; rather, man’s sinful heart uses wealth at times to increase the scope of its sin.

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A Video Demonstration of the Credit Crisis

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

War is Impotence

“War is a sign of impotence. A system or philosophy of life which has no power to convert becomes imperialistic. For the zeal and faith of peaceful missionary work it substitutes brutal terror. A failing faith resorts to war, because it lacks the contagion of faith and conviction and can only force men into its own system. War is the resort of those who lack true power and are declining.”
~ R. J. Rushdoony, Roots of Reconstruction, p.17

posted by Chris Ortiz at 6:22 AM  

http://www.chalcedon.edu/blog/2008/10/war-is-impotence.php

The Next Housing Crisis/Collapse – You Have To See This….

Watch how more government intervention and socialism will make this recession worse. FDR’s socialsim took a recession and transformed it into a Great Depression in the 30’s. Glenn Beck reveals how Obama’s socialism is now forcing you to spend an extra $100 per month to pay the house payments for thso who don’t pay themselves. You would think that the collapse of the Soviet Union would have taught us that socialism has always failed in history.

Obama as Hitler

by Kevin McCullough

 

This week in a bold move the President broke a barrier that his supporters should be quite concerned about. For in doing so he has broken a barrier that should always be seen as sacred. However, this will likely be marginalized by the leftist media that offers it’s blind support regardless of any mastery of facts.

Case and point… Rachel Maddow.

She is MSNBC’s less funny and perhaps more butch version of Keith Olbermann. And on this past Friday night she did an entire “bit” on anyone who would compare Obama’s policies to socialism as “not very serious people.” Of course people seeing the “bit” were a good deal uncertain of Maddow as she herself kept interchanging the terms socialist and communist. But liberals often are confused by facts and frequently either do not understand what they are discussing, or discuss it purposefully with deception. Whatever the case Maddow thought herself witty.

We’re supposed to believe her because… …well… …she said it. It does not matter to Maddow if President Obama’s policies are in substance moving us towards centralized control where the Government becomes the caretaker/nanny and the individual is lulled into mind-numbing moronic infancy suckling off the government’s “all-sufficient” teet.

But if she got that worked up over a few people calling Obama’s socialist policies by name, imagine what she will say about the title of this column?

And yet simply because Maddow, and others who defend their loyalty to Obama in irrational ways, still contend that he produces nothing but rainbows, ponies, and butterflies, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t compare what Obama is doing with others in history who have already tried those policies.

Which brings us to this point: This week President Obama exercised for the first time a policy decision that shares a trait held in common with Adolf Hitler.

The headline was leaked late in the Friday afternoon news cycle so that as few people as possible would pay attention, but here’s the crux of a very real problem: President Obama is moving policy on public health into the direction of doctors being forced to act against their conscience. (For liberals educated in public schools, a conscience is that little voice inside you that used to inform you as to what was right or wrong.)

President Obama wants them performing abortions, whether they believe it to be an immoral thing or not. And while the comparisons to Hitler are made either on eugenist or racist grounds–but you cannot escape the impact.

 

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