This a Fourth of July we are reflecting on the Founding Father’s intensive study of the Roman civilization. Knowing history, they embraced Rome’s virtues and eschewed her vices. The Founders understood the currents of history which gave us a collective heritage unrivaled. Sadly, we as a nation are turning our backs on the morality that made America special.
The country has convulsed in the past 30 years as a new modern morality has supplanted the currents of culture built nearly two thousand years ago along the shores of Galilee. This new culture is not yet fully defined, but we stand horrified as we peer into the future.
The culture of the Roman world was brutal and nasty. Ironically, we see its worst practices reviving with vigor. Please give us a moment as we recount a history seldom taught today’s students.
The Roman Empire had a twisted view about the value of human life. These views were banished by the ascendency of Christ’s teaching. Infanticide was both legal and encouraged in ancient Rome. Pagan societies, such as the Carthaginians, Romans and Greeks went so far as to kill their children outside the womb, sometimes as a religious sacrifice to their gods. According to Plutarch, the Carthaginians “offered up their own children, and those who had no children would buy little ones from poor people and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs of young birds; meanwhile the mothers stood by without a tear or moan.”
We see a modern American society which looks at children as a burden, and a generation of mothers who have decided by their own “choice” to sacrifice a generation. Population control is now an international objective.
Roman views on homosexuality were closer to today’s views than many realize. Pundit Nathaniel Blake characterizes it this way: “But, the Roman conception of same-sex relationships was very different than that of the modern West. The most important factors in the Roman view seem to have been the status and role of the partners. The Romans did not consider homosexual or heterosexual identities as exclusive from one another. While bisexuality was common, strict homosexuality was all but unknown. Unlike the modern view, social class mattered a great deal in the acceptability of homosexual relations. The upper classes were much more likely to indulge in homosexual acts, and masters had the sexual use of their slaves.” It was common to see an older man who held dominance over a younger male, using him for sexual pleasure.
It was not until the teachings of Christ and Saint Paul conquered Rome and Western Europe that sodomy was outlawed. But alas much has changed. Now sodomy is once again legal, and some states believe these acts deserve celebration in the most public of ceremonies, the wedding.
Finally, we see the debasement of money and profligacy of the state. Today taxpayers fund stadiums for the “games.” Roman emperors don’t hold a candle to the US Congress and the Federal Reserve in the looting of the public coffers and destruction of money.
In this, Roman Emperor Caracalla comes to mind. In addition to murdering his brother, Caracalla is mostly remembered for granting Roman citizenship to every Freeman in the empire. Caracalla’s goal was to broaden the tax base to pay for his extravagant spending. He raised the inheritance tax so he could double public salaries and win the allegiance of the legions. His public works are still on display today. If you visit Rome, you can see the ruins of the gigantic “Baths of Caracalla.”
His final contribution rivals the Federal Reserve. The silver denarius was an innovation in sound money introduced by Emperor Augustus. It was 95 percent silver like America’s pre- 1964 coinage, and the denarius lead to greatly improved honest trade around the empire. Caracalla, in his drive to increase spending, changed it to a coin with only 50 percent silver.
It took later emperors to debase it as far as the Federal Reserve has debased America’s currency. By 268 AD the denarius was only 0.5 percent silver. The result was predictable, as prices rose throughout the empire by up to 1,000 percent. Soon the “barbarians” hired by the emperor as mercenaries would not accept the denarius as payment, and insisted on being paid in gold.
Such manipulations by Roman leaders are legendary, but Americans who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. The moral and financial collapse of Rome lead to a renaissance of morality and the “Christian Era.” We can only hope that the accelerating American collapse leads to a return of the time tested honest culture that celebrates life, prudently shuns sexual immorality, and with commerce flourishing after a return to honest money.
But until that day arrives, we will continue to fight for these virtues until our last breath.
It sounds like history to me. The history that I learned long ago, and am still learning today. History forgotten, often is history repeated, as with our country today. We have allowed our children to grow up and leave history in the dust of libraries, and in the books that are still so valuable today. We have left our morals in the same dust. In the same books that teaches us how destructive the lack of morals for a society truly is. And we have sat by, and done nothing about any of it. All it takes for evil to suceed is for good men to do nothing. Either the good men, and women of this country have done nothing, or not enough, or, maybe there aren’t enough good men and women left……..like when God destroyed the earth with the Great Flood. He told us that He would never destroy it by water again, and each time the rainbow appears, this is the reminder of His promise shown in the skies. He said that the next time, it would be destroyed by fire. In the same Book of promises from Him, he said that we could change the mind of God, IF we would humble ourselves, and turn our faces back to Him, turn our lives back over to Him. He is indeed a loving God, but also an angry, jealous God, who is displeased with our disobedience, and to be totally fair, which one of us can blame Him if he is angry with us? We took the good that He had to give, and abused it, and have thrown Him out of our lives, and out of our country. The country that HE gave us! Yet, each time there is trouble, it is to Him that we turn……..”God help us, God bless America”…….!? God. Only when it suits our whims do we even bother to speak His name, His Holy Name. Instead of drinking beer and eating hot dogs, and fireworks today, each and every one of us should be on our knees, begging God to forgive us as a nation, and imploring Him to allow us one more chance to come back to Him, and back to our senses as Christian Americans. And do what is right and American and rid ourselves of the evil “cancers” that we have allowed to fester and grow inside our borders, and in our society. We have allowed this to go on for far too long, and it is our CHOICE as to whether we will allow our country to be so debased as it is being, and has been for too many years now. There comes a time in each life when each of us has to stand for what we know to be true, what we know to be right. And with this stand, we sometimes have to fight for all that we beleive in, and each of us should be willing to stand up and fight for God and country, for America. For in the end, on Judgement Day, we will each be judged according to our own acts. No one can do this for us, it will be one on One, and we will indeed answer for what we did, or did not do to defend Him, the One who laid down His very life for us all. His life gave us the freedom to fight the first time for freedom of religion, and win the right to worship Him as we saw fit. We won that fight the first time, because it was right, and we had God behind us in those years. I do not beleive God stands behind a nation who has lost every moral that they ever had. God does not, and will not support such wickedness, such a depraved idea of society. For this same depravement, He destroyed Soddom and Gommorah utterly, and without compassion. Only a few left those doomed cities, less than ten. Are there at least TEN good people left in America? Are there even TEN good people in Washington? One has to wonder………….! If you say you don’t beleive in God, ask yourself if it is a good bet……do you know this for sure, and do you care to gamble on eternity and your soul on this bet? Do you want to gamble on the future of our country with this bet? As for me, my country means too much to me to make that bet. God will bless the nation who makes Him their LEADER! Beleive it.
Students of today's classroom are not taught the same history we were taught as kids. Today's classroom seems to lean away from the real history and towards a more "open" forum to promote "free thinking". History is history. What our children are being taught is that during wars, the victor determines how history is written so they are encourage NOT to believe what they read, but to make their own assessment of what is truth, which ultimately leads to not knowing history and therefore repeating it.
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How about this approach to do something now instead of waiting to see if our system can overcome the Democrats stealing again?
Let us clamor loud and vigorously for a Congressional investigation into the many forgeries and security risk concealments by Obama and his conspirators. The press will do its best to stop it with the usual disinformation and ridicule but I see little chance of anything else providing a quick solution. A successful investigation could lead to prosecution. We have got to get brave candidates to speak up and make his forgeries a major issue. Isn’t it interesting how Democrats seem to have Candidates like Kerry who have to hide or manipulate their past? The Democrat Party is now mainly a reborn Communist party full of arrogant (Pelosi) crooked lawyers (Schumer) and thieves.
Forget about impeachment that does not have bearing in such a criminal and conspiracy case. The immunity a President has will need some consideration. Do he and his conspirators go to jail now or after he leaves office? Surely those who don’t care about liberty but only want to enhance a Marxist state have got to learn something and be given a lesson of what guardians of liberty are suppose to do. Incidentally it was the NY Times that cleverly backed the maverick McCain who refused to question Obama’s truthfulness failing us as a fellow guardian of our liberty. Our claim to be a country of Law has to be upheld.
I believe Darryl Issa of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Speaker Boehner as the best targets of our clamor. We have to encourage them to accept the cause with courage and stamina to resist the usual ridicule and character assassination from the wealthy bullies.
Also let us make sure that if we should be lucky enough to overcome the cheating and gain a new lawful administration and unlike the forgiving Bush, have put in place a new attorney general, such as Rudy Giuliani, who will proceed to investigate, track down and prosecute every knowing conspirator. Without such a basic correction and defense of the Constitution we are lost.
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