Jesus Manifesto iPhone App
My first iPhone App is now available – it’s a sneak peek of the upcoming book by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola, “Jesus Manifesto.”
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Government Indoctrination and Empty Promises
Interesting quote from an African-American pastor:
The neo-Marxist left has achieved cultural hegemony. Through the news media, government education, and the entertainment media, Americans have been shaped and molded into the kind of people who view Ron Paul as a political hack, while applauding gay marriage (one of the first lines out of Obama’s mouth last night was an acknowledgement of homosexuals), wealth redistribution, and government intervention in the free market! How ironic. We sent our children to Caesar for their education, and yesterday they voted just like Romans (the majority of 18-30 year-olds flooded the polls for Obama whether they were professing “Christian” or not). These young people believe hatred and racism are America’s biggest problems, and that the election of Mr. Obama is the cure (along with Hate Crimes Legislation). They believe America is evil because we don’t have universal healthcare like the Europeans. They believe homosexuality is innate, the existence poverty is a sin, and abortion is an ethical (and completely personal) means of birth control. They believe in anthropogenic global warming, Darwinian evolution, Gramscian Marxism, and Freudian Psychology. In short, they believe what they’ve been taught during their 14,000 hours of government indoctrination.
Kids are being taught by government, in government schools, that government is the answer. And many people in this country fully expect government to deliver.
Don’t buy it. If the left intends to fully deliver on their promise, they’ll run America into the ground, just like the stagnating European countries that have been playing around with socialism for decades. Most likely, though, they’ll just continue the path of corruption and do their best to entrench their own power. Maybe Republicans will learn their lesson and get it right – or maybe we’ll have to look to another party to accurately reflect the ideal of limited government. (Libertarian? Constitution? Another?)
No human government has ever managed to do what Obama is promising, not without significant tyranny and oppression of the opposition. In that sense, Obama’s promises are pretty much empty ones – Americans, most likely, do not have the political will to endure giving any politician that much power over them.
But I could be wrong about that.