Fall

The confusion of Paul the Canadian

Paul from Canada believes he is "witnessing the fall of the U.S. empire. Would a civilized country limit health care and food assistance for the poor; leave crops rotting in the field; destroy educational system; target woman and attempt to eliminate their reproduction rights while refusing to help resulting babies; abuse desperate immigrants; pretend to believe in Christianity while perverting and debasing its tenets; refuse to protect the earth from destruction? The world is watching."

He may be witnessing the fall of the U.S. empire because some of the policies of the U.S. over the last century have been more and more following a pattern that the historian Edward Gibbons describes concerning the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I see the same pattern being reproduced in Canada and many other countries.

Paul is so misidentifying the elements that led to Rome's decline and fall that he is advocating the very things that brought it about.

Let us clear up the facts first.

No limits

First, Americans do not "limit health care and food assistance for the poor". There is no limit on charity and Americans have a record in the past of being some of the most charitable and giving people on the planet. I assume that Paul thinks that the U.S. government should be providing "health care and food assistance for the poor" but the government of the United States is not in the charity business. It can only give away what it first takes from others or borrows against the future of others. Although the United States government could take charitable donations and redistribute them to the needy, that is not the way it operates. It is an institution of force and authority.

As a Christian, I do not believe we should apply or depend upon men who call themselves benefactors but exercise authority one over the other because Jesus said we were not to be that way. He admitted that other governments of the world were that way but he clearly prohibited his followers from such covetous practices through the government as the socialist do.

The fall of Rome was attributed in part to the free bread given out by the government which changed the industry of Roman people to a state of indolence and self-indulgence. As the people developed "an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force" they grew so "accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others" they could no longer see the moral hypocrisy of their covetous practices. They would eventually "institute the rule of violence; until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch."

The Pharisees had fallen into the same way of thinking. Jesus condemned them for the hypocrisy of the Corban which made the word of God to none effect and advocated fervent charity and love instead.

Crops

As to his comment about leaving "crops rotting in the field" the opposite is true. Americans have outproduced most countries, feeding much of the world in the process. We have overproduced many years in a row. It is a good practice, for you never know when a crop may fail. We often take the extra to some of the elderly in the community and have often offered the surplus to everyone around us for the taking. Almost no one who receives a monthly government check could not find the energy to even glean surplus vegetables, much less dig free potatoes.

Education

As to his third item, "destroy educational system". The educational system for most Americans before the 1900s use to be home education and public education was provided mostly through the charity of the local communities. That is one of the things that made America great. The modern system of education has used Schools as tools in order to change the way "Americans think". Judging by the thinking of Paul, it is working in Canada too.

Reproduction

Paul has already become so accustomed to his socialist views that he has degenerated and he actually imagines the objection to abortion of children is targeting "woman and attempt to eliminate their reproduction rights". Abortion is not about reproduction rights. It is about killing children in the womb. It is a violation of the natural rights of the unborn child to keep them from breathing, growing, learning and living. It is about preventing them - mostly children who will become women - from ever enjoying their reproductive rights.

Refusing to fund the murder of preborn babies for the convenience of the parents is helping those babies. No one is refusing to help or withholding aid from the "resulting babies", but again if you are going to strengthen the poor and society you must help them through charity. Using children to get financial support is child exploitation, which is all too common in the socialist policies of today.

We would never have gotten to this condition of immoral depravity and abuse except for the camel in the tent. When did God or Jesus say it was okay to covet your neighbor's goods through the force of government. Forcing the sacrifice of the people for whatever cause has always been foolish.

Immigrants

The real "abuse of desperate immigrants" is open borders which have caused the death and exploitation of tens of thousands of women and children. But like the bodies of the dead babies you abort, you do not see the carnage. The leading cause of death in the world last year was abortion.

America is a land of immigrants and it welcomes more immigrants than many other nations combined. All the people in these financed caravans were offered food, aid, education, and asylum in Mexico, but they only wanted to come to the US, not because they are "desperate" but for an opportunity. Is it moral, is it fair, is it wise to reward the privilege of that opportunity to those who would violate its laws and throw rocks at those guards entrusted with orderly protection of the border?

Why should those who flaunt the law be privileged over those who seek to enter legally?

I know many immigrants that came into the country legally, including my son and daughter in law. They work hard, pay their own way, and support the whole community. I also know families that have entered the country illegally and were ruined through the self-righteousness of bureaucratic do-gooders who are more than anxious to spend other people's money and pretend they are charitable. They have been on welfare for so long that half their family cannot hold onto a job nor see any reason to do so.

Many people have remained in the country on welfare for decades until most of their family has been emotionally crippled and uselessly dependent upon the debilitating benefaction of the welfare state which not only fails to "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" but "runs to evil".

Before tyrants could rise in Rome there needed to be a break down of family values, voluntary community service, and honor. It was the rise of the welfare state producing the fall of a nation.

Those who are willing to learn from history would not be so easily manipulated by a biased media. The people themselves would not be so biased if they were not already so "accustomed to feeding at the expense of others and dependent for their livelihood on the property of others..."

But Paul the Canadian is right when he says those who "pretend to believe in Christianity while perverting and debasing its tenets" are very much the problem, for they are under a strong delusion. They think they are doing great works as followers of Christ by the promotion of socialism, but they are actually workers of iniquity.

There is a need of repentance for we are "in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:"

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