The hatred the left has for President Trump led to this. Democrats like Schumer, AOC, Pelosi, Maxine Waters, and many in the media are responsible for this as well due to all the hatred they’ve spewed towards him.
Biden’s Culpability
Christianity is not a retreating faith. Scripture presents God as a God of order and truth, and it consistently calls His people to uphold both, even when doing so is uncomfortable.
A political party that refuses to enforce its own national laws is not practicing biblical compassion; it is abandoning responsibility.
I don’t know who Abbie Conant is but she posted this cartoon to praise socialism and own the cons. She seems a bit prickly, ending the post with:
“It appears that Facebook manipulated the distribution of the post to include hundreds of people who are not my friends and who have rather ignorant, rightwing views. At any rate, their comments provide an interesting view of the USA and the bizarre narrowness of its political spectrum.”
Being an ignorant right-winger, I felt her statement was invitation to inject a little non-ignorance to the discussion, so I tagged her.
Here goes.
The cartoon is clever, but it rests on an assumption that falls apart the moment you spend thirty seconds thinking about it.
It invites the viewer to look at Paris—Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe—and conclude that socialism must be responsible because France today has a large socialist influence in its government. That is like pointing at the Golden Gate Bridge and arguing that Medicare built it because both exist at the same time.
Almost everything that makes Paris instantly recognizable predates modern socialism by centuries. Notre-Dame was built by the Catholic Church beginning in the twelfth century. The Louvre began life as a royal fortress under the French monarchy. The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned by Napoleon. The grand boulevards of Paris were carved through the city under Napoleon III. Even the Eiffel Tower—the youngest landmark in the cartoon—was built by Gustave Eiffel’s private engineering company for the 1889 World’s Fair, decades before democratic socialism became a meaningful political force in France.
Socialists did not build Paris. They inherited it.
More importantly, they inherited the wealth that made Paris possible. The city’s monuments, museums, churches, bridges, and boulevards were financed by centuries of commerce, manufacturing, private enterprise, skilled craftsmen, merchants, engineers, architects, religious institutions, and, yes, governments taxing an increasingly productive economy. Whether one admires monarchies or not, the wealth that produced these works was created long before the modern welfare state existed.
This illustrates a common rhetorical sleight of hand. Advocates of socialism frequently point to prosperous Western nations with generous welfare systems as evidence that socialism works, while quietly overlooking the fact that those societies became wealthy before they dramatically expanded redistribution. The prosperity came first. The welfare state came later.
That does not prove that every social program is bad. It does expose the dishonesty of claiming credit for a civilization that others built. There is a profound difference between creating wealth and redistributing wealth that has already been created. The meme intentionally blurs that distinction.
If someone wants to argue that modern France is better because of its social policies, make that argument. But don’t pretend socialism built Notre-Dame, the Eiffel Tower, or the Louvre. History simply will not cooperate.
Paris is not a monument to socialism. It is a monument to nearly a thousand years of religion, private enterprise, engineering, commerce, art, and accumulated civilization. Socialists didn’t build that city any more than Medicare built the Golden Gate Bridge. They simply arrived after it was already standing.
Just a reminder of what she was saying then. A very accurate statement.
A psychiatrist has related that many, if not most, affected “can be traced to an individual’s low self-esteem.
They resent the masculinity, success, and confidence that they themselves can never achieve.”
Of course there is a lot more in that study but the gist of it seems that the “participation trophy recepients” never learned self-responsibility.
U.S. Supreme Court stated in the 1892 case of Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, written by Justice David Josiah Brewer (143 U.S. 457-458, 465-471, 36 L ed 226): ” This is a religious people.
This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation.
The commission to Christopher Columbus…(recited) that
‘it is hoped that by God’s assistance some of the continents and islands in the ocean will be discovered’…
The first colonial grant made to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584…and the grant authorizing him to enact statutes for the government of the proposed colony provided
‘that they be not against the true Christian faith’…
The first charter of Virginia, granted by King James I in 1606…commenced the grant in these words:
‘…in propagating of Christian Religion to such People as yet live in Darkness…’
Language of similar import may be found in the subsequent charters of that colony…in 1609 and 1611; and the same is true of the various charters granted to the other colonies.
In language more or less emphatic is the establishment of the Christian religion declared to be one of the purposes of the grant.
The celebratedcompact made by the Pilgrims in theMayflower , 1620, recites:
‘Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith…a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia’…
– Pastor Ward Clinton
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Even the four that are recognized as Deists, used scripture in their personal writings which is well documented. The only reason they are they are even considered Deists is due to the fact those 4 did not belong or declare a specific religious church. But all them were well educated in scripture.
Thomas Jefferson later in life was part of a Baptist Bible study group and taught calvanist theology.
Benjamin Franklin called the Continental Congress to pray, which makes the claim that he was a deist rather questionable.
This really sums it up.
For years, we have been told that Christian values are the problem. They are too restrictive, too old fashioned, too judgmental, too limiting. The message has been drilled into the culture over and over again, freedom means removing every moral boundary, every inherited standard, and every inconvenient truth.
But the cartoon gets to the heart of the issue.
“I don’t want Christian values limiting my freedom in life.”
Then comes the answer.
“Ok, we got rid of them.”
And suddenly the path to “life” is broken, crumbling, and dangerous.
That is the part so many people miss. Christian values were never meant to be a prison. They were guardrails. They were the foundation that helped build strong families, honest communities, personal responsibility, respect for life, respect for marriage, respect for children, and respect for something bigger than the self.
Take those away, and you do not get some enlightened utopia.
You get confusion.
You get broken homes.
You get people chasing freedom while becoming slaves to impulse, ideology, government dependency, and cultural insanity.
The left has spent decades mocking the very values that held society together, then acts shocked when the results show up in the streets, schools, courts, and homes.
They wanted a culture without judgment, then wondered why standards disappeared.
They wanted freedom without responsibility, then wondered why chaos followed.
They wanted life without the values that protect life, then wondered why everything started falling apart.
That does not mean every Christian is perfect. It does not mean every church has always gotten everything right. But it does mean the basic moral framework that shaped this country mattered far more than our elites ever wanted to admit.
Maybe the “limits” were not the problem.
Maybe they were the only thing keeping the road from collapsing.
It was intended from the very foundation that the US of A would be a Christian nation. Our laws, from the outset, were based on the Holy Bible and perusals of the founders’ writings prove that to be a fact, much to the ACLU’s dismay, not to mention Freedom From Religion and other antichristian organizations. Furthermore, it is only persons of high moral fiber who are supposed ot be permitted to be in positions of “public service” according to the founders. It is not the (Anthony) Wieners and (Barney) Franks and the citizens are supposed to be watching and dictating to the government what its limits are while holding the politicians accountable for their actions. Unfortunately, too many citizens have abdicated their watchdog responsibility and allowed amoral, even immoral, hotdogs to sneak in to those positions of power. It is time to get busy and clean out all the slime from Washington, D.C. We have the internet, for now, where we can bypass the biased media to get the word out and mobilizing.
“There has been a systematic attempt to mislead Christians by disinformation generated by anti-Christian writers who have obscured or denied the Christian nature of our heritage and civil government and law.” (Archie P. Jones, Ph.D., Foreword to Benjamin F. Morris’ The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, 1864, reprint 2007 by American Vision, Inc) Back at the foundation of this nation, America, the people understood the lessons from the Holy Bible that civil government is used by God to work out His holy will in the lives of men and nations.
“Our forefathers in the faith did not retreat from involvement in society and politics. They did not turn civil government, the making and enforcement, and adjudication of laws, over to Satan and those who serve him.” (Jones) It was Christianity, not paganism or secularism which produced freedom and justice in the west and in America, it certainly wasn’t Islam. “’There is nothing,’ says Webster, ‘we look for with more certainty than this principle, that Christianity is a part of the law of the land. Everything declares this. The generations which have gone before speak to it, and pronounce it from the tomb.’” (Morris, p 245) “The statesmen of the Continental Congress, in their deliberations, officially recognized the Christian religion, and incorporated its principles into their legislative acts.” (Morris, p 245)
John Adams, in a letter to his wife describes the scene of the 1st Continental Congress “When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing first made a motion that it should be opened with prayer.” (Morris, p246) It was a non-sectarian, yet decidedly Christian, prayer which ended with “we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Savior. Amen!” (Morris, pp 249-250) “The state papers of the Continental Congress were also full of the spirit and sentiments of the Christian system,” (Morris, p 46). We have a great and Godly heritage in spite of what the ACLU and others of an anti-Christian mindset wish to profess and the documents are once again being brought out to the light of day for our studious perusal at this crucial point in time. Crucial, because we most definitely need a new awakening similar to that which brought the United States into existence.
We desperately need a Great Awakening in this country and 2nd Chronicles 7:14 provides the recipe for it.
–Pastor Ward Clinton
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