To the Church
To the Church
The golden rule and gold are both necessary for a free and wealthy country.
Matthew 22:34 “And now the Pharisees, hearing how he had put the Sadducees to silence, met together; and one of them, a lawyer, put a question to try him: Master, which commandment in the law is the greatest? Jesus said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and thy whole soul and thy whole mind. This is the greatest of the commandments, and the first. And the second, its like, is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”[1]
One should not hurt people and take their stuff. One must tolerate sins and try to use persuasion to enact social change. Freedom does not mean that sins should be acceptable but rather that sinners should not have an officer with a badge and a gun force them to be “good,” unless the sin deprives someone else of their life, liberty, or possessions
John 8:4 “Master, they said, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Moses, in his law, prescribed that such persons should be stoned to death; what of thee? What is thy sentence? They said this to put him to the test, hoping to find a charge to bring against him. But Jesus bent down, and began writing on the ground with his finger. When he found that they continued to question him, he looked up and said to them, Whichever of you is free from sin shall cast the first stone at her. Then he bent down again, and went on writing on the ground. And they began to go out one by one, beginning with the eldest, till Jesus was left alone with the woman, still standing in full view. Then Jesus looked up, and asked her, Woman, where are thy accusers? Has no one condemned thee? No one, Lord, she said. And Jesus said to her, I will not condemn thee either. Go, and do not sin again henceforward.”[2]
Putting people in prison who do no others harm will not save your soul, and is not an effective way to save a sinner’s soul. Indeed, Jesus specifically states why people will go to heaven or hell.
Matthew 25:41 “Then he will say to those who are on his left hand, in their turn, Go far from me, you that are accursed, into that eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you never gave me food, I was thirsty, and you never gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you did not bring me home, I was naked, and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison, and you did not care for me. Whereupon they, in their turn, will answer, Lord, when was it that we saw thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to thee? And he will answer them, Believe me, when you refused it to one of the least of my brethren here, you refused it to me. And these shall pass on to eternal punishment, and the just to eternal life.”[3]
If you will be judged for not caring for people in prison, imagine how you will be judged if you send people to prison for whom you do not care. He makes it plain that just because you proclaim him to be your master does not mean that you are a faithful servant.
Matthew 7:21 “The kingdom of heaven will not give entrance to every man who calls me Master, Master; only to the man that does the will of my Father who is in heaven. There are many who will say to me, when that day comes, Master, Master, was it not in thy name we prophesied? Was it not in thy name that we performed many miracles? Whereupon I will tell them openly, You were never friends of mine; depart from me, you that traffic in wrong-doing.”[4]
Indeed, the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution ensures that governments cannot legislate their version of religion to make people good. They have to use persuasion to enact social change.
“No person shall… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
That means that, absent a Constitutional Amendment, in order to deprive someone of their liberty, including the liberty to sin, one must go through the court system. Sins cannot simply be legislated out of existence with police enforcement. The 9th Amendment further clarifies this principle.
“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
However, over the course of the last 100 years, the Church has been replaced by a new religion: Socialism. Charity has been replaced by taxing our neighbor. Freedom has been replaced with the stone-throwers of the police state. Since there are not enough taxes to do everything that omnipotent government is supposedly empowered to do, the government prints money.
Before paper money, in order for the government to create extra money without taxation, they had to debase their money by replacing the silver or gold coins with more common and less valuable metals. Governments would fraudulently keep the face value of the gold and silver coins. Gold and silver do not rust but less valuable base metals do. Those paid in the debased money were not earning as much as when they were paid in pure gold or silver.
James 5:1 “Come, you men of riches, bemoan yourselves and cry aloud over the miseries that are to overtake you. Corruption has fallen on your riches; all the fine clothes are left moth-eaten, and the gold and silver have long lain rusting. That rust will bear witness against you, will bite into your flesh like flame. These are the last days given you, and you have spent them in heaping up a store of retribution. You have kept back the pay of the workmen who reaped your lands, and it is there to cry out against you; the Lord of hosts has listened to their complaint. You have feasted here on earth, you have comforted your hearts with luxuries on this day that dooms you to slaughter.”
Inflation is effectively a stealth tax because the government has more money and the people have less valuable money. John Maynard Keynes, the most influential sophist of the 20th century in the West, states it thusly,
"Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." -John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter VI pg 236
The 5th pillar of Communism, according to the Communist Manifesto, is central banking/ money printing. Indeed, since the Great Recession, central banks and governments have been printing new money at a record pace. It took from 1913-2008 for the central bank of the USA, the Federal Reserve, to create $800 billion. They printed over $3 trillion additional dollars in the following 3 years. Actually, they do not even bother to print the money anymore. Money mostly exists on a computer screen.
While they have been printing money to prop up asset bubbles and “save the economy,” they have simultaneously been buying physical gold (and likely silver). However, the price of gold has not kept up with inflation because the price of gold has been suppressed by an artificial supply of gold. Instead of the price going higher as more people want the same amount of gold, the supply of gold has been artificially increased with paper contracts on the COMEX, LBMA, and ETFs.[5] People who think that they own gold according to a paper or digital contract are being fooled. Central bankers and national governments know this and have been buying physical gold since 2009 for the first time since 1987.[6]
When the paper dollar is no longer the world’s reserve currency, as it has been since 1944,[7] gold and silver will be money once again.
US coins were made of silver until 1965 and gold backed the paper dollar until 1971. 50 years is a very short period of time in terms of world history.
Those holding paper money will be poorer. Probably drastically so. The Church will need to step in with charity. The Church will need to own physical gold and silver in order to help the needy. The Church and the Constitution will need to replace the omnipotent government.
Matthew 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit down upon the throne of his glory, and all nations will be gathered in his presence, where he will divide men one from the other, as the shepherd divides the sheep from the goats; he will set the sheep on his right, and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those who are on his right hand, Come, you that have received a blessing from my Father, take possession of the kingdom which has been prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me food, thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you brought me home, naked, and you clothed me, sick, and you cared for me, a prisoner, and you came to me. Whereupon the just will answer, Lord, when was it that we saw thee hungry, and fed thee, or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When was it that we saw thee a stranger, and brought thee home, or naked, and clothed thee? When was it that we saw thee sick or in prison and came to thee? And the King will answer them, Believe me, when you did it to one of the least of my brethren here, you did it to me.”
[1] http://newadvent.org/bible/mat022.htm
[2] http://newadvent.org/bible/joh008.htm
[3] http://newadvent.org/bible/mat025.htm
[4] http://newadvent.org/bible/mat007.htm
[5] https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/gold-price-suppression
[6] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/31/world-gold-council-central-banks-buy-most-gold-since-1967-.html
[7] https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/r9tu385c22azkxuycdia7o3kludljh
