Robert Lewis Dabney served as pastor, professor, Confederate Army chaplain, and Stonewall Jackson’s chief of staff. [2] Dabney used slightly different terms for the neo-conservatism and liberalism of his day; but his definition of the counterfeit conservatives in his day accurately describes the neo-cons of today:
Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends toThat accurately defines the GOP and their acolytes in the alternative, neo-conservative media, which includes nearly all outlets claiming to be Christian. Ten years ago William J. Bennett wrote a book: “Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals.” Five years prior to that Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote "Defining Deviancy Down," published in American Scholar, Winter 1993. The following excerpt is found on page 17:[4]
risk nothing serious for the sake of truth….[3]
The amount of deviant behavior in American society has increased beyond the levels the community can 'afford to recognize' and that, accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to except much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising the 'normal' level in categories where behavior is now abnormal by any earlier standard.
A decade prior to Moynihan’s recognition of reality, Dr. Schaeffer addressed the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida[5]and suggested that “Caesar is not to be put in the place of God.” Confused Christians promptly went out and made an American Idol out of the GOP and its Supremes on the Court, [6] which was largely responsible for “the Assault on American Ideals.”
They are in the process of transferring worship from Bush to McCain & his Ms. Vice President. Their worship, in violation of the Second Commandment, is polytheistic; because they profess Christianity and worship the evil GOP. For all political purposes, like the Democrats, they don’t care what God, the Constitution, or their conscience says. The Republican Party and its voters are “merely the shadow that follows” Democrats. Together, they are the domestic enemies of America. According to "The American National Election Studies Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior Party Identification 7-Point Scale 1952-2004" they represent about a third of the populace. The majority should exert itself against this rebellious, destructive minority and vote for Chuck Baldwin.
Laurence Vance accurately summarized the self-evident truth about both major political parties: “There is not a dime's worth of difference between the two major parties. They are both stupid and evil and no friend of liberty and limited government.”[7] McCain’s Ms. Vice President does nothing to change that irrefutable fact. It does not matter what she has said about abortion, if she has done nothing to close the extermination centers in Alaska. What makes anyone think that she will confront McCain, inches from her sniveling nose, when she has cowered in the shadow Bush cast from thousands of miles away? And what has her ostensibly godly pastor done to confront her with Samuel West’s sermon “On the Right to Rebel against Governors,” May 29, 1776? Currently, at least 36 states have fetal homicide laws, based on the same propositions that make abortion murder. Supreme Court majority opinions on murder (abortion) remain in contravention of that well established fact, the Constitution, and thirty states with unenforced abortion laws. Make no mistake, abortion is murder! If the woman doesn’t believe that, she is not competent to govern! She took an oath to the Constitution, not Court opinion in contravention of the authoritative text.
The following four factors prove Democrats and Republicans are anti-Constitutional:
- They oppose Article 3 Section 2 legislation removing jurisdiction from the U.S. Supreme Court on issues of faith, family and freedoms.[8]
- They support incorporation of the Bill of Rights against the States and all the evils that entails from the U.S. Supreme Court.[9]
- They oppose Executive Review of anti-Constitutional opinions issued by federal courts on faith, family and freedoms.[10]
- They oppose the First, Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the nullification[11] for which they stand against the federal government.[12]
- Salt and Light: “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:13-16). At a minimum, that must include Romans 13:9: “Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
- God’s Ordinance of Government: “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God….For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil….For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil” (Romans 13:2-5 ).And there is a precaution about getting good and evil confused: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter” (Isaiah 5:20)! They aren’t likely to get confused if they meet the qualification of Exodus 18:21: “Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness….”
Steven J. Keillor, “a rural, pro-life independent, long-time board member for a Christian school,” has a Ph.D in American History. He is adjunct assistant professor of history at Bethel University. His book, “God's Judgments: Interpreting History and the Christian Faith,” was published last year. He “argues that Christianity is an interpretation of history (not an alternative reading of it but an old-fashioned metanarrative interpretation) far more than it is a worldview or philosophy.” He doesn’t deny that Christianity has a weltanschauung (1 Corinthians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 10:5; 2 Timothy 1:7; Philippians 2:5); but thinking is only a part of being. Christianity is relationship to God through Christ, not religion. What he means by history occurs from Genesis 3:24 to Revelation 22:2, which is instantaneous compared to eternity. Judgment is God’s response to rebellion; and that which is attributed to providence is God’s response to submission. On page 86 he makes this observation: “The New Testament does not state that God’s judgments against the nations have ended, but it does not specifically identify them either. Obvious reasons for that silence argue against construing it as a signal such judgments have ended.” Professor R. J. Rummel maintains an Internet site with the results of his research on governments that have exterminated millions of their own citizens. “….the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will and sets over it the lowliest of men” (Daniel 4:17).
“Duty is ours, results are God’s.”
[1] http://conservativetimes.org/?page_id=2
[2] http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/dabney.htm & http://www.theopedia.com/R._L._Dabney
[3] http://www.amprpress.com/women
WOMEN'S RIGHTS WOMEN
By, Robert Lewis Dabney, American Presbyterian Press. Additional commentary can be found at http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/ Ladies Against Feminism was founded by Mrs. Lydia Sherman and Mrs. Jennie Chancey in 2002 as a way to publish thoughtful, biblical responses to feminism and to encourage other women in their God-given roles. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45654 Why women's rights are wrong
[4] http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/formans/DefiningDeviancy.htm
[5] http://www.peopleforlife.org/francis.html A Christian Manifesto, by Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer This address was delivered by the late Dr. Schaeffer in 1982 at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is based on one of his books, which bears the same title.
[6] John Fund’s “Miers Remorse: Conservatives are right to be skeptical,” appeared in the Wall Street Journal, October 10, 2005. “Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far? A Symposium,” Commentary, October 2003.William J. Bennett and Lino A. Graglia. Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush appointees make up seven of the nine Justices on the Court; but we have to thank this same Court for finding unconstitutional a Nebraska ban on partial-birth abortion, for approving racial preferences in a public-university law school, and for discovering in Lawrence v. Texas a constitutional right to sodomy.”
[7] http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022538.html
[8] http://nordskogpublishing.com/publisherscorner/TNA%232402_Cover_Story.pdf What Congress Can Do for This American. John Eidsmoe, January 21, 2008
[9] http://www.extremeink.com/appendix.htm How the First Amendment Came to Protect Topless Dancing A History of the Incorporation of the Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment, Why It's a Problem, and How to Fix It By Susan Shelley
[10] http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=442 Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
[11] http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo48.html From 1789 until 1865 the citizens of all states, North and South, made periodic use of the principles of nullification, interposition, and even the threat of secession, to protect themselves from federal judicial tyranny (and federal tyranny in general). They invoked the Jeffersonian judicial philosophy to oppose protectionist tariffs, military conscription, the War of 1812, the Fugitive Slave Act, the Bank of the United States, trade embargos, and other unconstitutional usurpations (See James J. Kilpatrick, The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia).
[12] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-306980173713337153 The States’ Rights Tradition Nobody Knows http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods44.html The States’ Rights Tradition Nobody Knows
[13] http://www.dividingline.com/private/Philosophy/Philosophers/Dostoy/dostoy.shtml Katharena Eiermann, DividingLine.com, home of the Realm of Existentialism, 1994 - 2008
