The document argues that socialism is opposed to biblical principles for three main reasons:
1) The Bible's civil code does not authorize wealth redistribution or socialism. While helping the poor is commanded, it is not backed by state enforcement or punishment.
2) Socialism violates biblical commands against partiality by confiscating wealth from the rich to give to the poor.
3) Socialism is a form of public slavery due to excessive taxation needed for wealth redistribution programs, which results in national enslavement.
A presentation given at the Hallam Justice and Peace Commission in Sheffield on 1st March 2014 by Dr Simon Duffy. The talk describes growing poverty and inequality in the UK today, the negative impact of 'welfare reforms' and some of the real reasons why we are in the current crisis.
A presentation given at the Hallam Justice and Peace Commission in Sheffield on 1st March 2014 by Dr Simon Duffy. The talk describes growing poverty and inequality in the UK today, the negative impact of 'welfare reforms' and some of the real reasons why we are in the current crisis.
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American Leadership Policy Studies (ALPS) is a for-college credit certificate program that teaches the fundamentals of American government. ALPS includes a custom tailored Political Science 1 – US Government course taught in partnership with accredited colleges to assure students receive college credit. The class is taught from the perspective of industry professionals who work in local/state/federal bureaucracies and/or political/union campaigns. This course program may operate at the site of a partnering college or instructor of record who licenses ALPS course materials from WestCal Academy or at WestCal Academy’s main campus in partnership with an accredited college. WestCal Academy
This slide covers the following:
1. America’s Elite Membership
2. Policy Changes and Innovations in America
3. Political Conflict
4. Stability & Instability
5. Power Of Exporting Corporate Elites
6. Corporate and Economic Power
7. Globalization
8. How Elites Exercise Power
9. John Locke’s “Second Treatise Of Government”
10. Capitalism & Democracy Are Similar
What do faith, work, and economics have to do with each other? Can Christians embrace economics? How do we think biblically about economic issues? Check out the five reasons why Christians should care about economic freedom, five reasons that promote human flourishing.
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Offer an alternative explanation for how these patterns of criminal activity and violence affected constitutional law and political freedom.
Having effectively established an early version of
Parlament
, the Anglo-Saxons created a "warlike" system founded on family bonds,
aggricultral
success, acquisition of funds and property, and control through legal means. (Roth, 2005) Crime was a serious matter as this could effect an individual's financial status/land holdings, family and personal reputation, and life. As each
kindship
/kingdom had their own laws; however, your "value" as a human would determine
werdild
(blood price) and options for punishments. (BBC, 2016) Blood
fueds
and vengeance based retaliations occurred. There were no police forces; however, there were "
tithings
" (groups of 10 to 12 men) who were responsible for each other and held accountable for each other's actions. (Roth, 2005) Therefore, if you were accused of
theift
, you and your tithing would appear before a community jury to hear a sentence of death or a fine; however, should you not appear you would then be stripped of your humanity/value and executed. (Roth, 2005)
If the Saxons were known for their death penalty, then the Norman's were known for verdicts of mutilation and forming the class system. (Roth, 2005) Unlike the Saxons, the Norman's legal system did establish a police system that was loyal to the monarch instead of the community or
kinship
. (Roth, 2005) Taking the power away from communities and families to uphold and
despence
the law,
constables
handed everything from "tax collection, arresting
malfectors
, transporting prisoners, and serving legal papers" to maintaining curfew and monarch regulations. (Roth, 2005) Instead of having to survive an ordeal, a
theft
would have to battle to prove his/her innocence or appoint someone to battle for them if the defendant was a woman, child, elderly, or ill individual. (Roth, 2005) If a woman stole an apple, her brother might have to battle the shop keepers.
However, the two systems were vastly different. In the Anglo-Saxon world, the kingdoms experienced more personal and kingdom based freedoms. Even though the death penalty was widely utilized, no positions existed that would be seeking out infractions or looking to punish someone (like a constable). A thief might loose his family and personal honor, face the wrath of his tithing, or have to endure his victim's family claiming their blood price. However, value and worth were placed on family honor, deeds, and contributions to the community. In the United States, this is similar to what we experienced before the civil war. The states had more power than the federal government over their laws and regulations; however, like the Saxons, there were major
inconsistencies
among states regarding policies, sentences for crimes, and even social attitudes towards certain crimes. The Anti Federalist movement in the United States is founded o.
THE CREATION OF FIAT MONEY (created by debt out of thin air, without backing)Jesus Gonzalez Losada
The creation of fiat money (created by debt out of thin air, without backing) is an instrument of control that gradually generates a system of slavery.
Konzervatívny inštitút M. R. Štefánika organizoval ďalšiu z cyklu prednášok CEQLS. Naším hosťom bol Daniel Klein, profesor ekonómie na George Mason University (USA), ktorý pri príležitosti 300-tého výročia narodenia Adama Smitha prednášal o jeho odkaze pre súčasnosť.
This presentation was done on 20 Nov 2014 in Quaid-E-Azam College Of Commerce, University of peshawar, Pakistan.
This was presented in Global Business Environment Class.
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this is due in 7 hours....... must have done in 7 hours....
must write at least 5 paragraphs
Essay Question:
How did the New Deal change the role of government in the economy and society of the United States? Why did the change come about? In your answer, make clear the major achievements and limitations of the New Deal and the political factors that led to its success. It will be helpful to use the concepts “social welfare state” and “laissez faire,” and to contrast the New Deal with earlier government policies.
Write an original essay of about five paragraphs that
makes use of the sources provided
to answer the prompt. Structure your answer with a clear thesis statement in the first sentence, and supporting examples and reasoning in subsequent paragraphs. Choose specific examples from the sources provided below (1-7). ONLY use the sources below. You can not use other sources
1. Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address" (1933)
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.
Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments, so that there will be an end to speculation with other people's money; and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
Source: Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address." March 4, 1933.
2. Franklin Roosevelt, "Statement on Signing the Social Security Act" (1935)
Today a hope of many years' standing is in large .
Slide 3 WestCal Political Science 1 - US Government 2015-2016WestCal Academy
American Leadership Policy Studies (ALPS) is a for-college credit certificate program that teaches the fundamentals of American government. ALPS includes a custom tailored Political Science 1 – US Government course taught in partnership with accredited colleges to assure students receive college credit. The class is taught from the perspective of industry professionals who work in local/state/federal bureaucracies and/or political/union campaigns. This course program may operate at the site of a partnering college or instructor of record who licenses ALPS course materials from WestCal Academy or at WestCal Academy’s main campus in partnership with an accredited college. WestCal Academy
This slide covers the following:
1. America’s Elite Membership
2. Policy Changes and Innovations in America
3. Political Conflict
4. Stability & Instability
5. Power Of Exporting Corporate Elites
6. Corporate and Economic Power
7. Globalization
8. How Elites Exercise Power
9. John Locke’s “Second Treatise Of Government”
10. Capitalism & Democracy Are Similar
What do faith, work, and economics have to do with each other? Can Christians embrace economics? How do we think biblically about economic issues? Check out the five reasons why Christians should care about economic freedom, five reasons that promote human flourishing.
Offer an alternative explanation for how these patterns of criminal .docxIlonaThornburg83
Offer an alternative explanation for how these patterns of criminal activity and violence affected constitutional law and political freedom.
Having effectively established an early version of
Parlament
, the Anglo-Saxons created a "warlike" system founded on family bonds,
aggricultral
success, acquisition of funds and property, and control through legal means. (Roth, 2005) Crime was a serious matter as this could effect an individual's financial status/land holdings, family and personal reputation, and life. As each
kindship
/kingdom had their own laws; however, your "value" as a human would determine
werdild
(blood price) and options for punishments. (BBC, 2016) Blood
fueds
and vengeance based retaliations occurred. There were no police forces; however, there were "
tithings
" (groups of 10 to 12 men) who were responsible for each other and held accountable for each other's actions. (Roth, 2005) Therefore, if you were accused of
theift
, you and your tithing would appear before a community jury to hear a sentence of death or a fine; however, should you not appear you would then be stripped of your humanity/value and executed. (Roth, 2005)
If the Saxons were known for their death penalty, then the Norman's were known for verdicts of mutilation and forming the class system. (Roth, 2005) Unlike the Saxons, the Norman's legal system did establish a police system that was loyal to the monarch instead of the community or
kinship
. (Roth, 2005) Taking the power away from communities and families to uphold and
despence
the law,
constables
handed everything from "tax collection, arresting
malfectors
, transporting prisoners, and serving legal papers" to maintaining curfew and monarch regulations. (Roth, 2005) Instead of having to survive an ordeal, a
theft
would have to battle to prove his/her innocence or appoint someone to battle for them if the defendant was a woman, child, elderly, or ill individual. (Roth, 2005) If a woman stole an apple, her brother might have to battle the shop keepers.
However, the two systems were vastly different. In the Anglo-Saxon world, the kingdoms experienced more personal and kingdom based freedoms. Even though the death penalty was widely utilized, no positions existed that would be seeking out infractions or looking to punish someone (like a constable). A thief might loose his family and personal honor, face the wrath of his tithing, or have to endure his victim's family claiming their blood price. However, value and worth were placed on family honor, deeds, and contributions to the community. In the United States, this is similar to what we experienced before the civil war. The states had more power than the federal government over their laws and regulations; however, like the Saxons, there were major
inconsistencies
among states regarding policies, sentences for crimes, and even social attitudes towards certain crimes. The Anti Federalist movement in the United States is founded o.
THE CREATION OF FIAT MONEY (created by debt out of thin air, without backing)Jesus Gonzalez Losada
The creation of fiat money (created by debt out of thin air, without backing) is an instrument of control that gradually generates a system of slavery.
Konzervatívny inštitút M. R. Štefánika organizoval ďalšiu z cyklu prednášok CEQLS. Naším hosťom bol Daniel Klein, profesor ekonómie na George Mason University (USA), ktorý pri príležitosti 300-tého výročia narodenia Adama Smitha prednášal o jeho odkaze pre súčasnosť.
This presentation was done on 20 Nov 2014 in Quaid-E-Azam College Of Commerce, University of peshawar, Pakistan.
This was presented in Global Business Environment Class.
this is due in 7 hours....... must have done in 7 hours.... must.docxkbrenda
this is due in 7 hours....... must have done in 7 hours....
must write at least 5 paragraphs
Essay Question:
How did the New Deal change the role of government in the economy and society of the United States? Why did the change come about? In your answer, make clear the major achievements and limitations of the New Deal and the political factors that led to its success. It will be helpful to use the concepts “social welfare state” and “laissez faire,” and to contrast the New Deal with earlier government policies.
Write an original essay of about five paragraphs that
makes use of the sources provided
to answer the prompt. Structure your answer with a clear thesis statement in the first sentence, and supporting examples and reasoning in subsequent paragraphs. Choose specific examples from the sources provided below (1-7). ONLY use the sources below. You can not use other sources
1. Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address" (1933)
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.
Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced. It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical, and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character. There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and act quickly.
Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments, so that there will be an end to speculation with other people's money; and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.
Source: Franklin Roosevelt, "First Inaugural Address." March 4, 1933.
2. Franklin Roosevelt, "Statement on Signing the Social Security Act" (1935)
Today a hope of many years' standing is in large .
1. The Bible Opposes Socialism
by Steve C. Halbrook
http://theonomyresources.blogspot.com/
The Bible’s civil code does not authorize socialism
The Bible’s civil code (in the Older Testament) does not authorize rulers to redistribute
wealth. While helping the poor is commanded, none of the laws regarding helping the
poor are backed by a civil sanction.
For instance, the law about leaving gleanings from the harvest for the poor and the
sojourner (Leviticus 23:22; cf. 19:9) is not accompanied by a penalty to be enforced by
the state if the law is violated. (The main penalties the state is permitted to enforce for
certain sins include restitution [e.g. Exodus 22:1-4], flogging [e.g. Deuteronomy 25:1-3],
and execution [e.g. Leviticus 24:16]).
Of course, while the state is not to punish the sin of neglecting the poor, God nevertheless
does. Whenever we neglect the poor, we risk God’s judgment in this life (cf.
Deuteronomy 28:15), and we must answer to Him for it on judgment day (2 Corinthians
5:10).
Socialism violates the Bible’s commands against partiality
Since socialism confiscates the wealth of—and thereby punishes—the rich in order to
enrich the poor, socialism breaks the Bible’s commands against partiality:
“nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.” (Exodus 23:3)
“You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to
the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.” (Leviticus 19:15)
Note how in the last verse, partiality to the poor is contrasted with righteous judging.
Socialism is thus an unrighteous, wicked system.
Socialism is a form of public slavery
Because of its spendthrift nature, the socialist state tends toward heavy taxation and
borrowing. This results in enslavement of virtually the entire nation. When the elders of
Israel rejected God for a king like that of the pagan nations, Samuel warned of several
acts of tyranny by their future king, including ten percent taxation:
“
He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his
officers and to his servants.” (1 Samuel 8:15)
2. “
He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.” (1 Samuel
8:17)
Note how verse 17 ends—“and you shall be his slaves.” Ten percent taxation or more is,
or contributes to, national enslavement. Such enslavement socialism, with its excessively
high taxes needed for wealth redistribution and “welfare” programs, fosters. (Ten percent
taxation is actually modest by today’s socialist standards.)
Moreover, socialism enslaves the nation by the excessive borrowing needed for its
programs. Proverbs 22:7 says, “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave
of the lender.” In socialism, the state acts as the lender, and coerces the people into
becoming enslaved borrowers.
Thus, socialism is a form of public slavery, where the people, in the words of Eric
Holmberg, act as “the slave-labor force for some grand federal plantation.”
(Eric Holmberg in Vorthos Forum, “Government-Sanctioned Theft—the IRS,” YouTube
Retrieved April 29, 2009, from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UsuHlhWil8&feature=channel_page)
Socialism is a form of covetousness
Covetousness is foundational to socialism, since socialism is premised on politicians and
the poor coveting the wealth of the rich. But covetousness violates the 10th
commandment:
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s
wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or
anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:17)
Note that the commandment forbids coveting “anything that is your neighbor’s.” This
rules out the justification by socialists that “the rich don’t need all their money—taking
some of their wealth for redistribution won’t hurt anybody!”
One of the qualifications for being a ruler is to hate covetousness:
“Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God,
men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of
thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:” (Exodus
18:21, KJV) (emphasis mine)
This verse, as Daniel F.N. Ritchie writes, disqualifies from office those with socialist
leanings, since civil rulers require “the characteristic of ‘hating covetousness,’ and
socialism “is the politics of covetousness.” Daniel F. N. Ritchie, A Conquered Kingdom:
3. Biblical Civil Government (Saintfield, Northern Ireland: Reformed Worldview Books,
2008), 628.
The New Testament does not sanction socialism
As we discussed, the Bible’s civil code in the Older Testament does not sanction
socialism. Neither do we see any alteration to this rule in the New Testament.
There is not a whole lot in the New Testament about the duties of civil government. It
seems that if we were to find a biblical basis for socialism, Romans 13:1-7—with its
emphasis on the general duties of civil government—would be the place to look.
And what is the state’s duty? Is it to rob from the rich and give to the poor? No. It is to
terrorize and kill evildoers. (Not to terrorize and destroy the free market, as socialism
does.)
The state’s duty to terrorize evildoers is found in verse 3a: “For rulers are not a terror to
good conduct, but to bad.” The state’s duty to kill evildoers is found in verse 4b: “he [the
ruler] does not bear the sword in vain.”
(Obviously not every evil act can be considered a capital crime—the Bible is our sole
authority for determining what should be capitally punished, cf. Matthew 5:17-20, 15:4.)
These duties are why we pay taxes (Romans 13:6). Thus as far as Romans 13:1-7 is
concerned, taxes are intended to subsidize terror and destruction of the wicked—not to
subsidize socialism.
Socialism is idolatrous
Socialism tends to exceed taxation rates of ten percent or more because of the expenses
of wealth redistribution. But no institution has the right to claim a higher tax than God.
God requires a tithe (ten percent) of all income. When the state attempts a higher tax than
God, the state deifies itself, and is an idolatrous state.
Socialism is symptomatic of a lack of faith in God
When a nation lacks faith in God, it looks to civil government for its source of security,
including economic security. This is why socialism is so popular and appealing, despite
that it repeatedly leads to tyranny and economic instability.
For example, when the Israelites lacked faith in God, they yearned to return to the
enslavement of Egypt’s socialistic programs:
4. “They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to
the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the
second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. And the whole
congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the
wilderness, and the people of Israel said to them, ‘Would that we had died by the
hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate
bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this
whole assembly with hunger.’” (Exodus 16:1-3) (cf. Exodus 14:10-12; Exodus
17:1-3; Numbers 14:1-4) (emphasis mine)
Socialism opposes “The Golden Rule”
The free market system (capitalism) is based on a voluntary, willful means of exchange
between both parties. But socialism is based on a coerced means of exchange, backed by
the threat of violence—contrary to what we call “The Golden Rule”:
“And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.” (Luke 6:31)
In his sermon “Terrorism and God,” Joe Morecraft observes,
“[The free market] can be summed up in the phrase, ‘do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.’ That’s the basis of free enterprise. ‘You do something
good for me, and I’ll do something good for you.’ And in this kind of economy,
both parties in the exchange benefit.
“But in a statist economy, in a socialist economy, where the federal and state
governments control businesses and the marketplace, we have a violent means of
exchange, because in that situation, here’s what’s being said: ‘Unless you do
something good for me, I’ll do something bad for you. I will get the state to force
you to do what I want.’ And so violence is bred in our very socialist economy
itself.”
(Joe Morecraft III, SermonAudio.com, Terrorism and God (April 23, 1995). Retrieved
June 16, 2010, from
http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1229081635472.) (The portion of the
sermon cited begins at the 40:45 mark.)
The Book of Acts does not support socialism
Many support socialism because of Acts 2:44, 45:
“
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they
were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all,
as any had need.”