The following is queued up to the segment pertinent to the title of this thread.
If that elicits a wow from you, let me remind you of Robert Conquest’s Third Law of Politics.
The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
Solution anyone?
Split up big corporations. All of them. A smaller thing is easier to hold accountable. If you want to do business in my country, you do it on a small local scale.
Re-introduce morality back into economics.
Go local. Reject the globalists. Reject the laze-fare porn pushing social libertarians.
Realise that the biggest problem for the right, is the fake big-business “right”. Once you can isolate a problem, you can deal with it.
When were the anti-trust laws repealed exactly? Did I miss it?
Free market, Laissez-faire capitalism is what gave us the modern industrial world and produced the single greatest gain, in standards of living in human history.
It was so good in fact that we in the west haven’t practiced it in over 100 years. Government got involved and shorted the process by creating permanent monopolies. I don’t particularly like the idea of anti-trust litigation, it has had a history of taking large, unstable monopolies and breaking them down into , smaller, stable, monopolies dug in like Ticks under government license.
The issue is that conservative organisations could go without from big tech. But they would be struggling. Or they can compromise and be big guns. Churches also face the same issue. If you go with charitable status, your donors will get tax credits, but you can’t speak out against gays.
If you forfeit charitable status you have freedom of speech, but you’ll struggle financially. That was the situation before Trump. Before Trump, if you say anything political you aren’t a 501(c)3 charity. After Trump, you can speak politically as an organisation provided it is only a little of what you do.
So what’s the solution? We shouldn’t have allowed the government so much power to begin with. That’s why they have the right to discriminate, we gave it to them. Same with Big Tech, we shouldn’t have given You Tube so much power, we should have competed with them earlier on.
It is worthy of note that scripture warns of concern with Mammon (Earthly goods; property; riches; money) more than the Lord.
While on the topic: “For the Love of money is the root of all evil…” or “For the Love of money is the root of all kinds of evil…” depending on your translation. 1 Tim 6:10
Warren, it light of the two scriptural passages we just posted, it might be instructive to obtain an answer to: how exactly did the Prog movement distract the great religious institutions into agreeing to giving up the right to criticize those in office or running for office in exchange for the privilege to keep tithes and or contributions from being taxable?
Given the long held belief that those wielding the power of the state are the very ones most needing reminders that they serve “under God” and not in His stead, it really is remarkable that the biggest churches could be misdirected away from their vital role by the prospect of a few more dollars.
“Progressives” have long been masters at gaining power in small incremental steps, but it seems hardly a small increment to make that trade for the very soul of the institutions. And as Tucker calls to our attention, it’s now all institutions, even the ones that still until recently retained the façade they were still homes to principled conservatives and not position conservatives.
Hi Pascal, a 501(c)3, Mark Taylor is one of the people who talked about it. I found out about it 24 years ago by a man named Peter Kershaw (see PK church incorporation-You Tube). Lyndon Johnson in the 1950s was fed up with pastors telling politicians to speak in their church and them being accountable to church people.
What it means is a church is a sovereign entity, the state is a sovereign entity, this means the church is an independent entity. But by signing the 501(c)3, you become a charity and no longer have freedom of speech.
In the 1970s, churches who spoke against witchcraft were being sued. https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=qCWgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT95&lpg=PT95&dq=%22the+aquarian+anti+defamation+league%22&source=bl&ots=j0ApNh3g_U&sig=ACfU3U1-fgAKg2ZMnVJBollC7PWe0cwSaQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiysuT8itXmAhUGzTgGHWEoCRUQ6AEwB3oECAgQAQ In the 1970s a witch could call themselves aquarians, the aquarian gospel of Jesus Christ (available at Amazon if you want to check) in the first two pages says Jesus was in the Pisces era, he was a Christ meaning anointed by God; in the aquarian era we are all capable of being Christs, which is exactly what we are warned about in Mark 13:5-6, 21-22.
At a church I went to, an elder said we must be more accepting of gays. At another church I went to a transgender was in the welcome desk and immediately wanted to have sex as soon as she saw me, she even tried to unzip my pants.
So that’s another reason I left Auckland. Also going back to Aquarians. The King James says Jesus Christ God’s Son. It makes it clear Jesus was special. All the other bibles will cross out his full title, for instance, ‘The Christ’, this was planned.
Finally, Rockefeller funded seminaries who would take the focus away from Jesus. One particular guy at Bethel church teaches prophetic people you can’t talk about sin, you must always keep the message positive. Unfortunately its not just Bethel that teaches this.
Ok I think that’s enough information for now.