The following is a post from someone else's blog...(someone I truely respect)...I did not write or edit any of its contents....BUT I WISH I WOULD HAVE WRITTEN IT!!!
Enjoy,
Roman
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government." "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury." "From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship." "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years." "During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence: 1. from bondage to spiritual faith; 2. from spiritual faith to great courage; 3. from courage to liberty; 4. from liberty to abundance; 5. from abundance to complacency; 6. from complacency to apathy; 7. from apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage" Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: Number of States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29 Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1 Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say good-bye to the USA in fewer than five years. Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
2 comments:
What a scary thing it is to be an American these days. It used to be something to be proud of. Now it's something to take advantage of. How did we as a nation get to the point that freedom means nothing? How did we become one nation under whatever is best for everyone? How did we loose sight of the struggles we had to go through to be a people of freedom? What does our generation know but getting every darn thing it ever wanted? I believe that God is going to make things right with us. I'm not talking about in a fuzzy feel-good way. Things will be turned upside-down. How about Roman for Prez! It has a ring to it. You could run the country from Jeruselem. HA HA!-Rachelle
We, as a nation, are somewhere in the dependence stage of the circle of bondage. Even in our dealing with the rest of the world, not just domestically. We owe the rest of the world trillions of dollars. There are countries that owe us, but in the past, those debts have been largely forgiven. It should however, not come as a great surprise that we are dependent since it has been spelled out for us in God's word. Dt. 28:15 and 43. " However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: (43) The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower. He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail." Is it too late to come out of dependence? I dont think so, God can do anything. We as Christians need to get involved and hold leaders accountable, and replace those who do not meet the standard. Will it be quick and easy? No, historically it takes three generations to affect lasting change (ie. Abraham,Isaac,Jacob.) Continue to pray for our "One Nation under God."
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