Capitalism and Socialism God Cares About Government so you
should too! 1
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Freedom or Free Stuff God Cares About Government so you should
too! 2
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Via Negativa Capitalism 3
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Current Bias Current Bias Germany Jew = hatred America
Capitalism/rich =hatred Christian school Being rich worse than
being criminal 4
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Capitalism and Socialism Im not interested in government or
politics or Christians/church should not be involved in politics
Family, Church any other of Gods institutions we should neglect?
Government and politics matter Biblically Colossians 1:15-20
Government is the Lords idea, he cares about it and so should we
Romans 13 Government is a human agent or vehicle for God to work
through Practically/pragmatically North and South Korea 5
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North Korea 6
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South Korea 7
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North and South Korea church South Korea Only the US sends out
more cross-cultural missionaries than South Korea: 16,616
missionaries to 173 countries. By 2030 the Korean church wants that
number to be 100,000. The capital Seoul contains eleven of the
worlds twelve largest congregations. The Yoido Full Gospel Church
is the largest single church in the world. Its 800,000 members
attend different services across dozens of campuses. Every year
they add 10,000 members North Korea no known Missionaries
Publication of Christian literature Churches Free worship 8
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Capitalism and Socialism 9
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A history lesson might help 10
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Dangerous times History is: 1.Lost or unknown 2.Rewritten
3.Apathy 11
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History lost or unknown Hes a cool dude Why is he cool? I dont
know, man, he did some cool stuff Do you know the evil that he is
responsible for? yeah, I heard something about that but you cant
trust that kind of stuff you dont even know if its true 12
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History rewritten Christianity under attack 1.Yes, evil has and
is done in the false name of Christianity (KKK, kooks, etc.) 2.Yes,
born-again, regenerated evangelical Christians can do terrible
things just asking King David 13
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History rewritten Christianity under attack 3.The claims
against religion, in general, and specifically against Christianity
are, by and large distortions, ignore and falsify historical
evidence and are highly exaggerated Prominent atheist have been
very successful convincing millions of people that religion has
been the bane of history religion and in particular, Christianity,
has given us stonings, witch-burnings, crusades, inquisitions,
Jihad, fatwas, suicide bombers and abortion clinic gunmen (Sam
Harris The End of Faith) 14
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History rewritten Christianity under attack 4.The horrors of
the lack of Christianity (atheism, Marxism, communism, etc.) are
unimaginably horrific 15
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History rewritten Christianity under attack Rethinking History
Islam Is a peaceful religion which has been hijacked by a few and
receives bad press. We need to take a look at Christianity as well.
Christians have done a lot of bad things in the name of Christ
throughout the ages Mr. xxxxx - history teacher in a Christian
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History rewritten Christianity under attack The Crusades a set
of world historical Christian crimes whose trail of violence scars
the earth in human memory even to this day James Carroll This is a
common theme religion is bad but Christianity is worse But is it
true? 17
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History rewritten Christianity under attack The Crusades
revisited Before the rise of Islam the region we call the Middle
East was predominately Christian More than 200 years after Islamic
armies conquered the Middle East and forced their way into Europe,
Christians finally did strike back Rallied by the Pope Urban II and
ruling dynasties in Europe, 11 th century Christians attempted to
recover the heartland Christianity and defended against militant
Islam These efforts are now called the Crusades this term is a
later invention was not used by Christians or Muslims who fought
the battles 18
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History rewritten Christianity under attack Who were the
crusaders? portrayed as murderous and greedy conquerors Their
rulers provided nothing they were expected to bring their own
supplies and equipment most expected and did come back poor then
they left yes there was looting and forging on the way 19
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History rewritten Christianity under attack The 1st Crusade was
a success and Christians captured Jerusalem in 1009 and held it for
several decades The Muslims regrouped and routed the Crusaders and
Saladin reconquered Jerusalem in 1187 Subsequent Crusades were
failures and Jerusalem remained under Muslim rule 20
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History rewritten Christianity under attack Crusades would be
better described as a belated, clumsy and unsuccessful effort to
defeat Islamic imperialism ithout the Crusades, Western
civilization might have been complete overrun by the forces of
Islam 21
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History rewritten Christianity under attack The Inquisition
contemporary historians have now established that the horrific
images of Inquisition are largely a myth concocted first by the
political enemies of Spain mainly English writers who shaped our
American understanding of that event the idea that the Inquisition
targeted Jews is fantasy Inquisition trials were fair and more
lenient than their secular counterparts not only in Spain but
across Europe 22
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History rewritten Christianity under attack The Inquisition
frequently the penalty was only a form of penance while the
unjustifiable death of every human being is tragic accurate
historical estimations are between 1000 and 2000 deaths over 350
year period of time not the overly sensationalized amounts conveyed
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History rewritten Christianity under attack Witch trials in
Europe no one knows how many were killed perhaps hundreds of
thousands or even millions Carl Sagan (citing no sources)
historical sources put the number at slightly less than 100,000
Numbers matter I scream and sin against my co-worker once a month;
I scream and sin against my co-worker 100 times a month 24
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Communism Myriads of lesser atheistic tyrants Fidel Castro Kim
Jong- ILL Ahmadinejad Pol Pot Leader of the Khmer Rouge (Communist
Party that ruled Cambodia from 1975 1979) Tortured and mass
murdered 1.5 2 million people using them for fertilizer 26
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Communism the big 3 1.Stalin 2.Hitler 3. Mao 27
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Comparing the big 3s of atheism and Christianity Stalin, Hitler
and Mao Zedung Collectively their atheistic regimes in a single
century murdered more than 100 million people Unmeasurable
suffering Crusades, Inquisition and Witch hunts 200,000 deaths
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Comparing the big 3s of atheism and Christianity 200,000 :
100,000,000 Deaths caused by Christian rulers over a 500 Year
period of time amount to only.002% of the number of the deaths
caused by communist atheists of Stalin, Hitler and Mao in a space
of a few decades Atheistic regimes operate without the moral
restraints that religion produces 29
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Communism 30
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Marxism The name comes from Karl Marx (1818 1883), a German
thinker born into a Jewish family that converted to Christianity
when he was born. He became an atheist before college. rejected any
notion of a Creator or transcendent being. The universe started and
sustains itself no outside force required. We created God and
religion in our image to meet our needs. Matter is the highest
reality evolved into mankind as its most elevated form. 32
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Marxism Since no transcendent Lawgiver exists, Marxism rejects
moral absolutes. It considers: mankind good, but believes in evil,
described as economic inequity and the ensuing abuse of power.
Human injustice results from class conflict between the haves and
have-nots. Private property amplifies greed, leading to social
ills, which must be corrected by revolution replacing the old
economic structures with new ones. The ends justify the means as
long as those promote the communist society Marxism seeks. 33
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Marxism The new society will have no wages, money, or social
classes, an eventually no state. Utopia is achieved when there is
eventually no state!?! 34
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Socialism 1.seeks to create immediate material equality for all
people by standardizing wages, confiscating from wealthier
residents much of their personal holdings and also highly
regulating and taxing industry. 2.legislates government control
over property, handing over production and delivery of material
goods to the state. 3.Marxists believe socialism is a temporary
half-life between capitalism and communism. 35
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Current Socialist Countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_countries Bangladesh
Republic of India Democratic Socialistic Republic of Sri Lanka
United Republic of Tanzania Syrian Arab Republic 36
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Previous Socialist Countries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_countries Algeria
Republic of Egypt Ghana Indonesia Iraq Kenya Libyan Arab Republic
Nicaragua Sudan Uganda United Arab Republic All currently one-party
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Socialism and communism Communism and Socialism describe a
progression of philosophies. The relationship between these
policies and Marxism is that they aim, in varying degrees, at
achieving the ends of Marxism 38
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Socialism and communism 39
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COMMUNISM 40
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Social justice A new name for an old enemy socialism 43
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Socialism 1.There is No Private Property, - the State Owns all
1.In Socialism, government holds all right to property ownership,
even if all goods are not yet confiscated 1.The Ten Commandments
form the center of the Old and New Testament law. Rules against
theft and coveting, contained therein, demand pre-existing private
property rights. 2.Knowing this, would Christ then still insist
government had exclusive legal claim to all property? 3.Yet, even
if government did own all property, would the Bible writers posit
the state would wisely allocate property according to Christs
standards? 45
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Socialism 2.Socialism Ignores Laziness Socialism financially
supports those refusing to work Proverbs 6:6-8 Go to the ant, you
sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no
overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and
gathers its food at harvest 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12 youFor even when
we were with you, we gave you this rule: If a man will not work, he
shall not eat. We hear that some among you are idle. They are not
busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the
Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the bread they eat.
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Socialism 3.Teaches all Authority belongs to the government Col
1 ; Rom 13; Matt 22 John 19:8-11, Pilate asks, Dont you realize I
have power either to free you or to crucify you? Jesus replied, You
would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above
Declaration of Independence - rights come from God In Acts 4:19-20,
when the Apostles were ordered to stop evangelizing, they
responded, Judge for yourselves whether it is right in Gods sight
to obey you rather than God 47
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Socialism 4.Branch of Humanism Socialism is an atheistic,
humanistic philosophical system Romans 12:2Dont conform any longer
to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mindto test and approve what Gods will is 48
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Socialism 5.Seeks to create heaven on earth by believing a
Utopia can be achieved by making everything equal Revelations
21:1-4Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven
and the first earth had passed away I saw the Holy City, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from GodThere will be no more
death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things
has passed away. Doesnt the Bible portray Heaven, or the New
Jerusalem, arriving after the return of Christ, as a perfect city?
If Paradise does come to earth, will it really be delivered by
secular atheists using Marxist doctrines? 49
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Socialism 6.The state replaces the church it is the primary
role of government to protect the people and have just laws Primary
role of the Church is to advance the Gospel which in turn help the
needy In Matthew 22:15-21, Christ says, Give to Caesar what is
Caesars, and to God what is Gods. Jesus separates civil government
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Current President 1.Childhood Indonesia 1. anti Colonialism
2.Mentored by Frank Marshall Davis 1. a card-carrying member of the
Communist Party, 1.John Drew, who knew him at Occidental College,
told Kengor (Author of The Communist) that Obama was already an
ardent Marxist when I met him in the fall of 1980. 3. Pastor -
Jeremiah Wright 1.Anti American Racist 4.Association Bill Ayers
1.Anti American terrorist 5.Favorite Prof Roger Boesche 1.Socialist
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Freedom or Free Stuff God Cares About Government so you should
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Capitalism an economic system in which investment in and
ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of
wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or
corporations, especially as contrasted to cooperatively or
state-owned means of wealth. 53
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Capitalism So, what ARE those Biblical principles that, if
adhered to, would produce a righteous form of Capitalism? 54
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Capitalism 1.Enables libertarian free trade and economic
association. 2. Punishes theft. 3. Honors property and intellectual
rights. 4. Enforces pre-established agreements and contracts. 5.
Enables upward mobility. 6. Rewards hard work, persistence, risk
taking, and entrepreneurship. 7. Benefits the population by raising
the standard of living. 8. Punishes monopolies. 9. Promotes good
stewardship of resources. 10. Promotes giving and charity. 55
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Capitalism A Capitalistic system that encompasses these rules
already exists. It exists right here in the United States of
America. It is our form of American restrained Capitalism given to
us by the faith, wisdom, hardship and blood of our largely
Christian Founders. Are there abuses, sure, but that does not argue
against the system it only points to evil hearts that abuse systems
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Government God created government and it is his minister or
servant With the exception of the coming theocracy, all governments
are fallen Therefore we must promote and facilitate governments
which will be the most reflective of biblical principles and
facilitate freedom of the gospel 57
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Socialism (soshe-lzem) noun 1. a. A social system in which the
means of producing and distributing goods are owned collectively
and political power is exercised by the whole community. b. The
theory or practice of those who support such a social system. 2.
The building of the material base for communism under the
dictatorship of the proletariat in Marxist-Leninist theory.
Communism (kmye-nzem) noun 1. A theoretical economic system
characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the
organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. 2.
Communism. a. A system of government in which the state plans and
controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds
power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in
which all goods are equally shared by the people. b. The
Marxist-Leninist version of Communist doctrine that advocates the
overthrow of capitalism by the revolution of the proletariat
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