Congress should:
- serve the public by eliminating government restrictions on private service
- not serve the public by attempting to duplicate private service with compulsory tax-financed "national service."
PRIVATE SERVICE CREATES PUBLIC ORDER
Politicians are often called "public servants." They are seldom of genuine service to society, and usually undermine true service.
It is not enough to say, with Jesus (Mark 10:42-45), that we should not be "archists." Jesus does more than prohibit us from being like the Gentile kings. He gives us a positive command as well. In the passage where He tells us not to be archists, He commands us to be "servants."
The command to be "servants" is the well-spring of social order, not "the government."
Many who hear a proposal to eliminate zillions of "government programs" are rightfully and properly shocked, because they have been trained to feel this is a disregard of important social duties, such as education, care of the poor and elderly, and checking crime. Our criticism of the State is not a disregard of these or any other "civil" functions, but a belief that the State is creating disorder in each area where it intervenes in
an attempt to create or maintain these civil functions.
Our goal is to encourage greater personal responsibility for the functions of "civil government" and ensure that these functions are carried out efficiently and humanely.
Social order is neither created nor maintained by the coercive apparatus of "organized government." Social order is not the result of threats and negative sanctions. Social order begins in the Family. Social order never leaves the home to take up residence on Capitol Hill. Decentralized social order beginning at home creates, nurtures, and permeates society, and expands spontaneously. Washington D.C. is a force for disorder.
- Abraham our Model
- "Civil Government" begins at home; "Patriarchy," not Politics
- • What Needs to be Done
- • How it Can be Accomplished Without "The Government."
- • How To Make Your Home a Community Center
- Who Counts the Most Important Things of All?
- Not Washington, D.C.
- Trusting God rather than the State
- "Vengeance is Mine," saith the LORD; so is social order
- How Should We Then Live?
- Long-forgotten paths which generate social order
- Voluntary Associations
- A more potent source for social order than coerced action
- Gary North on "social overhead capital"
- Significant expenses not always found on the ledger books
- America's Founding Fathers recognized this
- Statism: The Idolatry of our Age
- Obedience in Life
- pleases God more than Ritual and Sacrifices in Church
- Virtue in a State-free society
- Morality, not coercion, creates social order
- Morality in a Church-free society
- Education must be religious
- Ordinary is OK
- In an Extraordinary way
"Volunteerism" which is
• required by law
• paid salaries with taxpayers' dollars . . .
is not "volunteerism."
Power Corrupts - Archism Poisons Volunteerism
Servile Nation
- All working Americans are engaged in acts of service. These acts of service are valuable enough that other people voluntary pay money for them.
- All homemakers are engaged in supremely important acts of service to their families.
- Liberal elites believe that these acts of service are not of value because they have not been approved by the government. This idea led to Hitler and Mussolini. Where will it lead in the 21st century?
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ALERT
G.I.V.E.
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BOTTOM LINE
Service, not "government," makes the world a better place.
The world would be a better place without archists.
If mankind would make a collective self-conscious rejection of murder and theft, even (especially) murder and theft committed by "the government," repudiate the claims of moral legitimacy made by archists, and cultivate the heart of a “servant” as commanded by Jesus,
- We would enjoy a higher standard of living
- Education, literacy, learning, and philosophy (literally, "love of wisdom") would increase
- There would be less crime
- There would be less violence
- There would be less immorality
- There would be more harmony and peace
- There would be more glory to God.
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