"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12.
Lately, a political blog I follow "Powerline", has had some articles about the growth of the food stamp program and also the recent changes to the welfare program. These articles have troubled me but I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. I believe that we should do everything in our power to provide for our families. I think I got this from my dad who taught us at a young age to work for what you get. We qualified for free lunch when I attended elementary and my father worked out an arrangement with the school that we would eat lunch and then clean the lunchroom floor when we were done eating, to earn our lunch. This was very embarrassing and not fun and truthfully we barely did it. But the fact that my dad, even though free lunch was offered, would not except it without some sort of payment was a great lesson to us.
Sometimes, we work, cut out spending-give up cable and high speed internet-and cut everything we can and yet we do not have enough in the end to feed our families. At these times outside help is necessary for our survival. I would hope we have more options than one to turn to. Hopefully, we have family, friends, and a church community we can go to for help in difficult times, but even the government is there if needed.
One problem with the government system today is that if you only need a little help, you don't qualify for any help. I heard a disturbing story from a friend about a friend who needed help with her daycare payments. She petitioned the government for help and was told she did not qualify for any funds, but if she were to quit her job, she not only could get help for daycare (which she wouldn't need anymore) but would get housing money, food stamps, and more. She is now a stay-at-home mom dependent on taxpayers.
Is the government interested in helping people? It seems like they are not trying to help people better their lives, but create a large dependent lower class. Why?
The more I thought about the governments interest in welfare the more troubled I became. It seemed to me there was an underlying agenda that I was missing. So I asked the question. Why? Why would the government want the welfare system to grow? We should want families to help themselves and not live off the taxes of others. So why would the president want to grow these programs? Part of the problem is the economic hardships occurring right now. These programs are partially growing on their own because of, obviously, the poor economic times. But why is he actually pushing-advertising for more people to get on food stamps and removing the work requirement to the welfare program? Well an obvious answer is VOTES!! It is an election year and voters hit the voting booths in just a few months. That must be the answer.
My feelings, however, kept telling me there was more to this. So I asked a different question. Why does the government want so many people dependent upon them? The answer that came made me gasp. If the people are dependent on the government for financial needs and for food they don't need to depend on anyone else. That is a scary thought because the list includes: themselves, their family, their friends, their church, and last but certainly not least, THEIR GOD!! When that thought entered my mind the last 3 and 1/2 years, even longer than that, suddenly made sense. Not so subtle and sometimes very subtly the government has been making this country something it is not and never should or will be. This is a very radical thought and I will lose many readers, if I have any, but I am convinced that this president and those pulling the strings want a communist state.
Now if you are still with me let me explain. I have been doing research on this the last few days. I read a lot of the communist manifesto. Yeah, I went there. Let me share with you a little of what it is says. "The theory of communism may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." What does that mean? The poorest of the poor have no property such as homes and cars. In order to abolish private property all together, the state takes it from the middle class and upper classes. Communism in a nutshell is the lower class, with the help of the political elites, abolishing by laws, taxes, war, and what have you the middle and upper classes. There is a little bit more I think worth noting. Communism abolishes not only private property, but families,countries, nationalities, eternal truths including religion and all morality. This is in their manifesto.
So what is the plan. His plan so far has been to 1. create a class warfare. Remember the Occupy movement. "The 1% are bad and don't pay their fair share and we should have what they have." Big business is bad (even though it is businesses that create jobs and boost the economy). He did not create this movement, but he certainly supported the occupiers. 2. Put government in charge of more of our lives, Affordable Care act. 3. Make people dependent on government and not on a supreme being. Religion needs to be abolished for communism or socialism to thrive. It is very difficult to wage a full out attack on religion because there are so many religious people in this country. So the attack must occur slowly and subtly by removing the need to rely on God for help and demonizing religious persons.
So what can we do to stop it. Well to stop the current president we vote him out. What about the next communist or socialist who wants to change America, how do we put a complete stop to it? I have a 2 fold plan. 1. Elect men who believe in God . Who speak about Him as well as feel accountable to Him. Was it in doubt that our founding fathers believed in God? No! They might have had many names for Him, but they believed He was the power behind winning the revolutionary war and behind the creating and ratifying of the constitution. They wrote about him, spoke openly about him and lived his precepts. We need those type of men in the offices of congress and president today. 2. This part of the plan is found in 2 Nephi 25:26 "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophesies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."
I searched google for "religion and communism" and found some quotes I wanted to share. The quotes come from an article by Leslie Mason "The Forum: The Conflict Between Communism and Religion A reply to Baldwin" It was written in the communist review June 1924 Vol 5. no. 2. He says "...judging from the words of Christ, True Christianity and pacifism lull into inactivity the best fighting elements of the working class. Thereby leaving them entirely at the mercy of the capitalist class, without the will or the means of resisting. Would Lenin have accomplished the Revolution if he had adhered to the christian doctrine of pacifism instead of waging the class war? Will the communist parties in the various countries overthrow capitalism by the christian doctrine of love and gentle persuasion instead of by the use of force? No decidedly not! No one can be consistently both a christian and a communist. A true Christian believes in turning the other cheek, resisting not oppression, returning good for evil. It would be madness for a communist to adopt such an attitude towards the oppression of the capitalist class." Then at the end of the article he quotes Trotsky "And therefore, we adopt a ruthlessly irreconcilable attitude to anyone who utters a single word to the effect that mysticism or religious sentimentality might be combined with communism. Religiousness is irreconcilable with the Marxian standpoint. We are of the opinion that Atheism, as an inseparable element of the materialist view of life, is a necessary condition for the theoretical education of the revolution. He who believes in another world is not capable of concentrating all his passion on the transformation of this one."
So how do we combat communism? We teach the doctrine of Christ. Love your neighbor as yourself. Who is your neighbor everyone. "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you" St. Matthew 5:44.
Also we bring to remembrance the goodness and mercy of God which he bestows on all His children who keep His commandments and believe in His Son, Jesus Chris. We remember the Israelites and their afflictions in Egypt and Moses bringing plagues down in Egypt by the power of God. We remember the crossing of the red sea on dry ground and then the Egyptian army being drowned in the sea. We remember Moses smiting a rock and water coming forth to quench the thirst of the children of Israel. We remember the mana and quails that fell from Heaven to feed them. We remember how they were led by a cloud during the day and a pillar of fire by night. We remember the fiery flying serpents and the rod they were to look at for healing. We remember the battle of Jericho. We remember Elijah, the prophet being fed by ravens. We remember the widow woman that had enough food for one last meal and prepared it for the prophet Elijah and her oil and flour never ran out. We remember Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego who were saved from being consumed in the fire. we remember Daniel in the lions den. We remember Jesus feeding the 5 thousand and the 4 thousand with a few loaves and fishes. We remember Him healing the blind, the deaf, the sick. We remember Christ's sacrifice of death and suffering for us. We remember the revolutionary war and how it was won by the hand of God. We remember that we are Gods children and that He loves us and is willing to bless us according to our faith in Him. We remember that He gave us our agency in the beginning and desires His children to be free. And we remember that Christ will return. Wickedness will be destroyed and righteousness will remain and He will be our King. We remember that this is the time to prepare to meet God to be judged of our works, desires, and the intentions of our hearts. We remember that liberty and justice for all are not just pretty words, but what this country stands for. In the name of Jesus Christ amen.
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