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Liberty or Security?  Which is most important in the long run?  It is impossible to have 100% of both liberty and security in this natural world.  Liberty, of necessity, must involve some risks.  The major one is that you have to trust your neighbor to respect your God-given rights of life, liberty, and ownership of property.  Likewise, your neighbor must be able to trust you in the same way.  This is why our Founders warned us that we couldn’t maintain this Republic, with its great amount of liberty for the individual, without most of our people knowing the religion of Jesus Christ in the pure way that Jesus gave it.  If I know that I will “reap what I sow”, both in this world, and in the world to come (Galatians 6:7), I have a strong reason to respect your rights; knowing that God Himself is judging me in my actions.  If I’ve had those truths hidden from me both in the home and the school, then I don’t know that I will surely “reap what I’m now sowing”; thus, I have no deterrent to my own selfish desires, leaving your rights at risk.

Thus, God gave us civil government based on His Ten Commandments in order to aid us in keeping the last six of those commands toward our neighbor.  Government “bears not the sword in vain” (Romans 13:1-4); thus, the threat of punishment becomes Continue reading →

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Kentucky Governor, Andy Beshear, not only intends to continue the lockdown of Kentucky’s citizens; he now speaks of us all having to wear masks when we’re in public.  Is all this a violation of God-given rights protected by Kentucky’s and the U.S. Constitutions?

Is this lockdown necessary?  Not if you listen to doctors who think for themselves; several were interviewed on Bryan Fischer’s Focal Point this week.  Dr. Scott Atlas, former chief of neuro-radiology at Stanford Medical Center, says that the mortality rate of those diagnosed with coronavirus is .01% (one tenth of 1%).  That’s just about the same death rate for the regular-type flues which we’ve dealt with for years.  Why the massive fear which causes shutdowns?  Could the fear be being used to bring about an agenda that has nothing to do with our immediate health situation?

When you consider that Dr. Fauci, who has shaped this governmental policy which demands shutdown, says it will take one-and-a-half to two years to develop a vaccine; when his own medical journal from his National Institute of Health said in 2005 (August 22nd edition) that chloroquine (the drug that the President promotes to take care of the coronavirus) is a powerful preventive and healing drug of the chrono family of viruses.  Yet now, Dr. Fauci avoids talking about hydroxychloroquine.  Does anybody else “smell a rat” here???

One Dr. Richards in Texas treated Continue reading →

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The time had finally come.  After twenty years of growing government interference into the affairs of the American Colonies, the patience of Americans was exhausted.  The Representatives of America had appealed to their British King over and over during those twenty years, and had only been insulted for their efforts.  Over and over the King had treated their appeals with disdain.  Finally, Thomas Jefferson would sum up the attitude of the majority of Americans when he wrote in the Declaration of Independence,

“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The final break with England began on March 16th, 1776.  The Continental Congress, representing each of the thirteen colonies, called upon the American people to observe a day “of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.”  The Congress stated:

“In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret [scheming] and open assaults of an insidious…administration, it becomes the indispensable duty of these…colonies, with true penitence of heart…publicly to acknowledge the over ruling Providence of God; to confess…our offences against Him; and to supplicate His interposition for averting the threatened danger…”

(The Declaration of Independence, Rod Gragg (Nashville, Rutledge Hill Press, 2005), p. 33.)

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It almost seemed that Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear was targeting conservative Kentucky churches with his warning to not meet together last Sunday; a Sunday where they especially celebrate the Resurrection of Christ.  He threatened them with a 14-day quarantine if they met inside their buildings.  His stated reason was the prevention of the spread of the China virus that has impacted parts of America in a serious way.  But it’s interesting that he did not apply that threat to Kentucky’s abortion clinic; and certainly that hideous act of murder cannot be performed unless those involved are close enough to spread the virus.  At any rate, Kentucky State Police were at church parking lots gathering license plate numbers from vehicles, to be turned over to the County Health departments so their agents could visit the homes of those vehicle owners to make certain they were confined to their home.

Without even touching how Kentucky State Police were possibly violating the Fourth Amendment of the National Constitution—which protects citizens on private property from “unreasonable searches”—this is a huge encroachment into religious liberty rights.  Our Founders in America (and Kentucky’s Founders) included Continue reading →