There is a great deception that rights come from government. The masses are falling for this deception and are, therefore, surrendering their liberties for something grander — seemingly better. But how can there be anything better than total liberty?
That “something better” they seek masquerades as freedom, but when unmasked is simply collectivism — also known as international socialism, global democracy and the New World Order. In recent times, it has also been known as Marxism, Fabianism, the New Deal, Nazism and communism. In ancient times, when the religious basis of political manipulation was more fully acknowledged, it was known as Orientalism, Babylonianism and Baalism.
All of these “isms” have in common an effort by government to maximize its power by forcibly leveling every human individual to the same status of conformity, egalitarianism and serfdom. But governments have no rights except those granted it by the people; and they, therefore, cannot grant what they do not possess. However, when the masses come to accept that government grants them their rights, the next step is that they accept that government can take away the rights of the one in order to bring him down to the level of the other under some misguided idea of altruism.
But our rights come from God, not government. And as such, they cannot be taken away unless and until man is deceived into giving them up, as Thomas Jefferson stated in his Notes on the State of Virginia.
He said, “[C]an the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever . . . .”
It is for this reason the godless state and its statist propagandists are working so hard to remove God from the public discourse. And it is for this reason the Christian cannot succumb to the bullying tactics of those who would deny Him and see Him swept from the public sphere.
