{"id":2369,"date":"2017-12-07T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T22:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2018-01-29T19:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T00:46:43","slug":"upsa-and-sanctuary-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"U(P)SA and Sanctuary Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

How might our United (Pagan<\/strong>) States of America resist continued paganization?<\/p>\n

How about by means of “Sanctuary Cities”? And, let it begin with Wilmington, Ohio.<\/p>\n

For how many generations have parents taught their children by means of a simple principle:\u00a0 Do the right thing?\u00a0\u00a0 And there was always an unequivocal reply to the child who would do wrong, and offer this excuse:\u00a0 “Johnny made me do it!”\u00a0 Such an excuse was \u00a0intolerable and was rewarded with utter rejection, if not a spanking.\u00a0 Uh, uh!\u00a0 No way.\u00a0 No blame-shifting.\u00a0 No excuses. Do the right thing!<\/p>\n

That was the way it was<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Nowadays we blame-shift to another Johnny, a.k.a. as Uncle Sam. \u00a0It goes something like this:\u00a0 “Uncle Sam made me tolerate baby murder in my neighborhood!\u00a0 I could not save the innocent ones! \u00a0Uncle Sam made me do it!\u00a0 He made me allow them to die!”<\/p>\n

Ah, but the charge to “do the right thing” is given not just to the Individual.\u00a0 It goes to the community.\u00a0 Our Lord speaks to the community and holds it responsible so that even those “righteous” who did not fall into the behavior of the majority suffer under the judgment that comes upon the whole community. \u00a0“The rain falls upon the just and the unjust,” say the Scriptures.\u00a0 Indeed, He is the judge of nations as well as singular persons.<\/p>\n

We are to be judged in real time as citizens as well as individuals. \u00a0It behooves us, then, to take stock of our nationhood and our zeal to involve ourselves in civil justice, viz., law.<\/p>\n

And yet, how poorly we have practiced this principle in response to our big brother government which has acted like a big bad brother in abandoning basic principles of right and wrong:\u00a0 indeed, \u00a0the decriminalization of murder;\u00a0 the establishment of the neo-pagan principle butchering one’s children in the name of “choice,” \u00a0and the more recent toleration of sodomy and the blasphemous solemnization of sodomy by putting it on a legal par with holy matrimony! (SCOTUS, 2015.\u00a0 Libertinism gone to seed, indeed!)<\/p>\n

What holds a nation together?\u00a0 Documents?\u00a0 Pledges of allegiance from citizens?\u00a0 Police power?\u00a0 A conscientious commitment to a preference for Peace and Good Order? \u00a0Is a state a “nation”?\u00a0 Is a “united states” a state?\u00a0 Is what call a county a “state” or a “nation”?<\/p>\n

The salient point in considering civil authorities and political entities, is that God will judge them all singularly and corporately:\u00a0 persons\u00a0 as singular persons, towns as towns, cities as cities, states as states.\u00a0 And, in fact, it is He who sustains and judges all nations in real time (Rev. 2:26; 7:9; Matt. 25:32; Mark 13:8; etc.).\u00a0 And if this true we hold, as Christians, why do we defer to the pagan view that all the gods out there are equal and worthy of tolerance and respect?<\/p>\n

That may well be the proper view of an American.\u00a0 But it is not the proper view of a Christian.\u00a0 It is the view of an agnostic, perhaps.\u00a0 And if we don’t know, let it be suggested that the United (Pagan) States of American may rightfully dis-unite into the un-United States of America or some other collection of disaffected groups which, in turn, may or may or may not find unity with new groups of states by some other<\/em> binding principle.\u00a0 \u00a0When the foundation is gone, a new one may be laid.<\/p>\n

Again, by what authority do nations rule and by what authority may they be overthrown?<\/p>\n

Why has a nation, founded upon the ideal principles of a republic grounded in Biblical ethics, drifted so far away from its foundation?\u00a0 Perhaps because it was not well grounded.\u00a0 Indeed, by its indefinite references to the “deity” and an alliance between deists and Christians, the founders formed a national government.\u00a0 And in its very foundation were the signs of its demise.\u00a0 It lacked the Rock of Revelation, the Truth.\u00a0 The People preferred security of numbers and the prospect of protection from others by means of an alliance which excluded fidelity to God and His Law.\u00a0 Justice<\/em> was desired but the preferred security of unity in numbers<\/em> prevailed.<\/p>\n

As we disintegrate nationally, perhaps by the upheaval of some economic chaos, the smaller jurisdictions will \u00a0have the opportunity to reconsider their allegiances.\u00a0 And they may consider in advance the undue respect given a Godless, immoral federal government.\u00a0 We the people have tolerated baby butchering across the fruited plain for 44 years<\/em>!\u00a0\u00a0 How can this have been?\u00a0 Why have we been so blasphemously mesmerized for so long? And where might a solution begin?\u00a0 Consider the buffoonery of a people to blame their participation in folly upon the leadership of the larger government.\u00a0 The glory of a big population\u00a0 and the security of numbers.<\/p>\n

For those who value Truth and Justice above numbers and security, there is some revolutionary thinking to be done. We would suggest and hope that such a principle as Truth and Revelation be selected,\u00a0 even that forgotten Lord and the Scriptures which He authorized.\u00a0\u00a0 And let local jurisdiction embrace the Truth and advocate for it.<\/p>\n

Going Local, rather than National<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why, for example,\u00a0 must my fair city of Wilmington be captive to the buffoonery of a tyrannical SCOTUS?\u00a0\u00a0 Similarly, why are the opinions of SCOTUS elevated above the POTUS?\u00a0 Did not the people of the nation put POTUS in power by their freedom and will expressed in the ballot?\u00a0 And why, moreover, ought SCOTUS, be elevated above Congress as well as POTUS?<\/p>\n

Even still, as SCOTUS and POTUS and Congress vie against the Law of God, the people are always within their solemn rights under God and our own Constitution to disobey and overthrow them, even as our very founding documents affirm.\u00a0 But how shall it come about? \u00a0What is the minimum jurisdiction level where justice may be advocated and secured?\u00a0 And what measure of urgency is necessary to motivate citizens to demand justice at those lower jurisdiction levels? (How much blood?\u00a0 Or is it: Whose blood?\u00a0 Is it only the blood of ex-utero folks that bothers us?)\u00a0 \u00a0If the people, as a nation known collectively as the United States, refuse to overthrow or disobey unjust decrees, what are the rights and duties of the various states, as particular states to disobey independent of one another?\u00a0 And if the states refuse to tend to justice – derelict as they are, subsequent to the Civil War, to resist the feds – what about counties and cities?\u00a0 Consider, then, another approach to the mess?<\/p>\n

Let a reformation be initiated with the smallest of jurisdictions, the perimeters of the big cities, and from there proceed inward toward the larger cities of a state. \u00a0\u00a0How about sanctuary cities for the children in the womb who are in need of protection from that threat imposed by those ubiquitous abortuaries?\u00a0 If a city does not wish to allow abortionists to set up their chop shops in its jurisdiction,\u00a0 has it the freedom to outlaw them?\u00a0 May it declare itself a Sanctuary<\/em> City<\/em> for children in the womb?<\/p>\n

It seems those on “the Left” are always pushing these legitimate questions – of “freedom” – way ahead of those on “the Right” even though the latter have more grounds for the claim of radical urgency to action;\u00a0 to wit, the violation by cities of federal immigration laws. \u00a0In this case, cities defy both state and federal authorities with impunity.<\/p>\n

Huh?\u00a0 Why are the feds so lenient toward \u00a0those cities which violate legitimate law that served to protect a nation’s borders?\u00a0 Contrast this tolerance with their intolerance of and retaliation against anti-abortionists who violated that illegitimate, immoral, and \u00a0fraudulent “opinion” (a.k.a. Roe v. Wade) which permitted child slaughter?<\/p>\n

Upon consideration of the connection which ought to be made between sanctuary cities and the abodes of unborn babies, I looked around to see who else might have noted the comparison.\u00a0 Lo and behold, \u00a0and I saw that famous country singer Charlie Daniels had voiced the same idea back in March, 2017:<\/p>\n

“How about some cities declaring themselves a sanctuary for the unborn and refuse to abide by the federal laws allowing abortion?” he asked. [See Life News:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2017\/03\/31\/country-singer-charlie-daniels-suggest-sanctuary-cities-protecting-unborn-babies-from-abortion\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Indeed, how about it?<\/p>\n

A Sanctuary City!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, folks on the Left had taken up the same notion in the opposite – perverted, of course – \u00a0direction!\u00a0 They attempted to push abortion rights further<\/em> in those places where there might be the slightest restrictions upon the precious right to murder innocent babies.\u00a0 Sanctuary cities, you may recall, were advocated as places to which women could flee in order to “procure abortion services.”\u00a0 Yes, they were prohibited in some oppressive places in America from slaughter their children in the latter weeks of gestation (God forbid that women can’t kill a baby at any age!).<\/p>\n

My oh my but these heathen are zealous <\/em>in pursuit of\u00a0 doing evil<\/em>.\u00a0 Just can’t get enough of that blood shedding!\u00a0 But, on the other hand, \u00a0we advocates for these womb children may be a bit slow on the up swing.<\/p>\n

Why wait upon the feds or even the states, slow as they are and ever harassed by SCOTUS?\u00a0 \u00a0Let cities<\/em> do the right thing and set the example for the counties, the states, the nation, and the world.\u00a0 Justice begins at home and spreads to the towns and cities and nations.\u00a0\u00a0 Buck up and get your house and neighborhood in order.\u00a0 Declare the Truth and seek Justice in your own neighborhood.\u00a0 Outlaw evil, even the Lawless laws of the feds, in your own neighborhood. \u00a0Declare your city a sanctuary city where no abortions will be permitted.\u00a0 Let the people guard the gaits and disallow anyone from setting up shop to butcher babies in Abortion Free Sanctuary Cities. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Down with the United Pagan States of America and up with the old Constitutional United States of America under God and His Law.<\/p>\n

I like my town.\u00a0 And I like it free from the shedding of innocent blood.\u00a0 Wilmington, stay free and stand for the children.\u00a0 No innocent blood in your streets.<\/p>\n

It is worth fighting for.<\/p>\n

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