LibertyCzar
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I am especially glad that Ron Paul scolded Evangelicals in the same letter that he used to announce his endorsement of Chuck Baldwin.
Most people on this forum, and elsewhere, are not seeing the complete targeted point that Ron Paul is trying to make. From his letter endorsing Chuck Baldwin, quote:
I see here a level of frustration that Ron Paul has with evangelicals. He sees that it is clear that they have been deluded. So it is important to note that Chuck Baldwin is a pastor, and a key player in the Moral Majority. Who better to educate Christians than a Christian leader? Ron Paul's endorsement provides a conduit to try to offer Christians an effective means so that they can realize that their theory that "God has instucted us to militarize the Middle East" is absolutely wrong.
So I would like to pose a challenge to everyone to look at this from a prism beyond the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of Bob Barr. Chuck Baldwin certainly spreads Ron Paul's message, nearly in its entirety. Yet Chuck Baldwin also spreads the message to Christians to abandon interventionalism from the podium of government. Rather religious institutions should spread their doctrine through the mechanisms of churches, the missionary field, and other methods of evangelism. That would be in the spirit of the free market and a marketplace for competing religions and those that have no religion.
Our military should only be used for legitimate defense of this nation. Chuck Baldwin is a leader of their flock, and perhaps more than anyone, he can make evangelicals realize this concept. In fact, the book of Revelations in the Bible is one big warning against imperialism and the danger of global governments. Evangelicals need to realize that America has become "the great whore" that is referenced in Revelations. Chuck Baldwin is the only presidential candidate that can express our foreign policy in such terms.
So then we get back to Ron Paul's strategy. Sure, Bob Barr pissed him off. But Ron Paul realizes that a vast constituency of the status quo is the evangelicals. This is because they have been sold a fraudulent bill of goods. Indeed, I am looking forward to see if Chuck Baldwin can indeed bring Christianity back to its basic core.
Christians need to support more of the principles of Jesus Christ, and the Apostles, and less of the structures and tactics of the Roman Empire -- which was the same dominating government that was so problematic for the Christian church from the beginning, including Emperor Nero's scapegoating and persecution of Christian leaders such as Peter and Paul, authors of much of the New Testament of the Bible. Currently, our own Federal government is in the process of harassing leaders of alternative religions.
In my view, everyone has an equal stake in making sure a religion doesn't become intertwined with a monolithic and imperialistic government intent to intervene anywhere and everywhere. This is something that must be stopped.
Most people on this forum, and elsewhere, are not seeing the complete targeted point that Ron Paul is trying to make. From his letter endorsing Chuck Baldwin, quote:
I see here a level of frustration that Ron Paul has with evangelicals. He sees that it is clear that they have been deluded. So it is important to note that Chuck Baldwin is a pastor, and a key player in the Moral Majority. Who better to educate Christians than a Christian leader? Ron Paul's endorsement provides a conduit to try to offer Christians an effective means so that they can realize that their theory that "God has instucted us to militarize the Middle East" is absolutely wrong.
So I would like to pose a challenge to everyone to look at this from a prism beyond the legitimacy, or lack thereof, of Bob Barr. Chuck Baldwin certainly spreads Ron Paul's message, nearly in its entirety. Yet Chuck Baldwin also spreads the message to Christians to abandon interventionalism from the podium of government. Rather religious institutions should spread their doctrine through the mechanisms of churches, the missionary field, and other methods of evangelism. That would be in the spirit of the free market and a marketplace for competing religions and those that have no religion.
Our military should only be used for legitimate defense of this nation. Chuck Baldwin is a leader of their flock, and perhaps more than anyone, he can make evangelicals realize this concept. In fact, the book of Revelations in the Bible is one big warning against imperialism and the danger of global governments. Evangelicals need to realize that America has become "the great whore" that is referenced in Revelations. Chuck Baldwin is the only presidential candidate that can express our foreign policy in such terms.
So then we get back to Ron Paul's strategy. Sure, Bob Barr pissed him off. But Ron Paul realizes that a vast constituency of the status quo is the evangelicals. This is because they have been sold a fraudulent bill of goods. Indeed, I am looking forward to see if Chuck Baldwin can indeed bring Christianity back to its basic core.
Christians need to support more of the principles of Jesus Christ, and the Apostles, and less of the structures and tactics of the Roman Empire -- which was the same dominating government that was so problematic for the Christian church from the beginning, including Emperor Nero's scapegoating and persecution of Christian leaders such as Peter and Paul, authors of much of the New Testament of the Bible. Currently, our own Federal government is in the process of harassing leaders of alternative religions.
In my view, everyone has an equal stake in making sure a religion doesn't become intertwined with a monolithic and imperialistic government intent to intervene anywhere and everywhere. This is something that must be stopped.
