My real purpose in campaigning is not to raise millions of dollars and plaster campaign ads all over the media and landscape in order to unseat the 2nd most powerful Republican in Congress.
My real purpose is to change people's worldview and vision for "government."
Please become acquainted with the concept of a "worldview" if you are not already. One's worldview determines the fundamental categories of interpreting the facts of our world.
Human Nature: Do human beings need to repent of rebellion against God, or are human beings impersonally and naturally evolving into perfection?
Eschatology: Should the world be abandoned to "tribulation" and imminent catastrophe while we await a "Rapture," or should we be making plans to create peaceful and orderly human societies which will last for millennia into the future? The position on "government" in this campaign is written from an "optimillennial" rather than "pessimillennial" perspective. We look forward to a global "Christocracy."
Law: Our position on "government" is written from a generally "theonomic" pro-law perspective.
Society: Our position on "government" is written from an individualistic rather than collectivist perspective. A "capitalist" perspective rather than a "socialist" one.
Government: I believe that the greatest progress in human culture will take place when the entire concept of "the State" is as distant a memory and as absent from the planet as "animal sacrifices," though both once dominated human society.
Ultimately this issue will not be resolved by the exegesis of a handful of Bible texts or clauses in the Constitution. This is really an entirely different way of reading the Bible and looking at human society. It is a classic "worldview" issue.
"The State" owes its existence to extortion and threats of violence ("taxation"), and its core purpose is vengeance, both of which are forbidden by God's Law.
There is no legitimate human social function which cannot more efficiently and more humanely be carried out without "the State." Self-government, family government, schools, hospitals, grocery stores, insurance, home security, dispute resolution and other businesses will all thrive without "the State."
They have in the past; they must in the future.
Among anarchists there is a debate as to whether our present huge global multinational corporations would exist without the State, e.g., whether Exxon would have its present form without the full resources of the million-man nuclear-armed military forces of a superpower State (the U.S.) overthrowing the government of Iran in 1953, raising up Saddam Hussein's army to battle Iran for over a decade in the 1980's, overthrowing Soviet-influenced governments in Latin America, creating "al Queda" to counter the Soviet Union's disruption of oil pipeline construction in Afghanistan, and myriad other ways in which a "Free Market" in energy has not existed since industrialists like Rockefeller created today's "Administrative State" to annul the Constitution and carry out their corporate policies. (Pro-special-interest regulation was once "progressive" and "populist," but regulation is now often carried out in the name of "de-regulation," and new regulations proposed to deal with the inevitable bad effects of prior regulation.)
"The government" continues to create popular support for its own existence by manipulating education and the media to create the widespread popular belief that without "the State," "criminals" would "take over." We have all been trained to believe from our youngest days that "The State" protects "Life, Liberty and Property."
If we remove our patriotism-colored glasses, it will immediately become apparent that "the State" destroys more lives, enslaves more individuals, and confiscates or destroys more private property than all the "anarchists" and "criminals" in the world combined.
The entire concept of "the State" is unBiblical and supremely dangerous.
Our worldview needs to exclude the whole idea that a group of people have the right to confiscate wealth ("tax") to fund acts of vengeance against their competitors. We do not allow this idea to become socially accepted in the world of business. The idea must become as socially unacceptable in the field of "government."
The future of the human race depends on this conversion.
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