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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:49:30 -0500
From:         "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Countries Turning to God
              22 Jan 1993 08:45:32 -0500 from <BENSON@POKVMCR3.VNET.IBM.COM>

On Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:45:32 -0500 <BENSON@POKVMCR3.VNET.IBM.COM> said:
>> ...   Would the *majority* of Americans think
>>that he is the best man for the job of making major decisions about
>>the welfare and direction of this nation?  No way!  He couldn't even
>>make it to all the meetings because of his age and health.  So the
>>majority would not have wanted him in the Senate, but Mississippi (a
>>very small population) voted him in for their own small interests.  I
>>don't think the majority of Americans would vote for Ted Kennedy
>>either, but he holds enough political power to ensure re-election in
>>his state.
>
>But we live in a country where the MAJORITY rules - fortunately at
>sometimes and unfortunately at others.  All it takes is 51% of the
>voters being liberal and they can elect 100% of the liberal officials.
>Also, you would expect that if there were a majority of conservatives
>in the US then there would be other states voting FOR conservatives
>and the OVERALL representation would be conservative.

Unless of course, the majority of the people vote for something like
Amendment 2. Then a judge can tell the entire "majority" that they
can't do that, it was unconstitutional. Then the last I heard was he
got slammed because it was unconstitutional to deny people the ability
to govern themselves. Where did this end up anyhow?

We were never to be a total democracy where majority rules. We distorted
that. Later, if I post any more of my Christian Nation posts here, they
talk about the set up of the Government. We were to have majority rule
on anything not mentioned in the Bible, but if the Bible spoke on something,
there was no discussion, the Bible was to be our "law".

Murder was to ALWAYS be murder, and the penalty was prescribed. Stealing
was stealing, there were to be no laws to "define stealing". The Bible
had already done it. The Bible said "Train up a child in the way he should
go..." and other admonitions to teach the Bible. There were not to be any
laws preventing it.

Yes, majority has ruled. Ruled God out of the public arena, ruled God out
of the schools. I've been asked "What about that, Mike?" and I'm reminded
of the Old Testament. The Jews would do good, and they would forget God,
take on false gods, and forget the God of the Bible. God then gave them
over to calamity and sometimes captors. This would cause them to cry to
God. Americans came over here to flee persecution and to serve God. They
prospered abundantly, and now we want to forget God. It won't last, but
I wish we could get to remembering God in my lifetime. Russia was on the
boat that we were in, God was totally forgotten. Now they cry for God,
teach Him in the public schools, and broadcast the message of Christ on
Government owned television stations, and they can't get enough.

Of course, Americans think they are far superior to the Russians. We can
handle "no God". We can't teach God in schools, we might offend and have
to give place to Hindus, Muslims, and other faiths. We are confident that
that these faiths don't exist in Russia. We've got to be fair.

I guess so. Someday a rider on a White Horse will part the sky, and He
will do battle with any of the false gods and their followers, and we
will then have justice. Not very fair, but Justice. It would be ironic if
Russia were to find favor for teaching the public about God, and America
would have to explain why He is no longer important.

Boy, did I get carried away with that one...

Maks.
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