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The Protestant Roots of American Civil ReligionQuote:
Whatever the merit of the claim that America can be called a Christian nation, this much is for sure: Americans are fish swimming in a civil religion that is not the same as Christianity. And most of the fish don’t know they’re wet.
By Glenn A. Moots of Northwood University (link-pdf)
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This looks to me like the immanent run on the Federal Reserve! But then you already knew that...Quote:
The third and most destructive variety of civil religion arises when religious and political objectives collapse into one another and come to resemble the kind of radical eschatology Eric Voegelin called gnosticism. The Civitas Terrena becomes confused with the Civitas Dei. Public policy becomes a means of redemption and replaces acts of charity. Law exhausts the pious desire for righteousness and replaces it with political ambition, abolishing the Augustinian distrust of both human nature and state action. The church becomes confused with the state, and the state threatens to overwhelm the church as the church—the corpus mysticum.
Notice how the corner church is NOT an ecclesiastical organization? (View Attachment.)
I describe this paradigm between constructive and destructive (above) - that abolishing the Fed is constructive, rather than redemption being destructive in the Gospel of Pragmatism.
Ecclesia of course consists of people. Religion is comprised of policy within the amoral setting of a corporation.Quote:
Title 26 USC §501(c)(3)
I italicize church above regarding Paul’s formation of ecclesia because this organization – church or association of churches – is actually a Disqualified Organization in the description of Title 26 USC §501(c)(3) government-sanctioned tax-free non-profit religious organizations. Virtually every church of significance in America is §501(c)(3) but by legal definition, not a single one of these churches is actually a church in the sense of being an ecclesia sanctified to In summary Disqualified Organizations as found in Title 26 USC §501(c)(3) are churches described at Title 26 USC §170 and there we find the description ...churches and associations of churches. More interesting though is that Title 26 USC §501(c)(3) corporate persons who await approval by the IRS for their tax-exempt status are found awaiting approval at Title 26 USC §508. Typically in the bylaws of any Title 26 USC §501(c)(3) church we find stipulated certain No part of the net earnings of the Center shall inure to the benefit of or be distributable to any member of the Center which is not then an exempt organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Therefore all the People allegedly in the CHURCH are not considered people but rather, are Title 26 USC §501(c)(3) corporate persons awaiting approval found at Title 26 USC §508! Thank God (quite literally) that Title 26 USC §508 (C)(1)(a) recognizes these same churches and associations of churches as Mandatory Exception to the Internal Revenue Code entirely. The point being that the church recognized to have nothing to do with the Federal Reserve System (IRS) is NOT the church created by Paul while in Roman protective custody! Paul’s church is the church he formed from Rome – appropriately a government-sanctioned religious organization found at Title 26 USC §501(c)(3) – also known as Christianity. In preparation for Castle Church near the end of this treatise please begin to understand why Pragmatism forming a Mandatory Exception profits from this Gospel of Pragmatism being derived from a radical interpretation of the Parable of Mark if you will, so as to never be confused with Christianity.
How Does the IRS Interpret Section 501(c)(3)?
In order to understand how the IRS determines eligibility for tax exemptions under Section 501(c)(3), it is necessary to understand where the standards that the IRS applies come from.
Section 501(c)(3) itself is part of a federal statute, Section 501 of Title 26 of the United States Code, and states that the following organizations are exempt from income taxation:
Corporations ... organized and operated exclusively for
religious,
charitable,
scientific,
testing for public safety,
literary, or
educational purposes, or to
foster national or international amateur sports competition (but only if no part of its activities involve the provision of athletic facilities or equipment), or
for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals,
no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, no substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or
otherwise attempting, to influence legislation ..., and
which does not participate in, or
intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.
Last updated on March 17th, 2014
Be in the world but not OF the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chex
In, for example, New Zealand there is a "State of New Zealand" and a "Realm of New Zealand"--the sovereign isn't to be found in the State but subjects are--few these days are aware of this distinction. Despite independence in Australia you might have the same kind of model. Could it be that they held on to that kind of model in Australia long after their independence because with that model it is more difficult to confuse the "Civitas Terrena" with the "Civitas Dei"? Perhaps democracies are more susceptible to such confusion? With respect to the USA you simply have a dual system at the least. The deception attempting to foist itself on true believers in the Americas is pertinent to this. It might be that the 1787 Constitution was the starting point of the confusion, the 1862-1870 New Union moreso. Perhaps the truth might be summed up in this: the United States of America was formed from the very beginning as a 'container' for the stranger. (see the signature line re: Proverbs 25:2)
Attachment 2146
Perhaps the 'secret' (putting aside all the distraction about secret societies) is that they were out to preserve the inheritance for the heirs by developing a containment system for 'the dead' or for strangers? Could there be: money for the dead? Religious institutions for the dead? Education for the dead?Quote:
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living;" that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.
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On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.
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This principle that the earth belongs to the living and not to the dead is of very extensive application and consequences in every country, and most especially in France.
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison - Paris, Sep. 6, 1789
[Note: the Judiciary Act of 1789 (ala saving to suitors clause) is said to have been engrossed September 24, 1789 or 18 days later.]
Attachment 2144
http://www.laopinion.com/apps/pbcsi....ersion=Article
(Note: a 'bust' is a funeral effigy)
Ask most any State DMV and they'll likely tell you that they only issue 'driver licenses' or 'ID' for 'residents'(strangers).
Attachment 2147Quote:
On Friday, May 25, 1787, the first meeting of the Constitutional Convention began in Philadelphia. George Washington was elected president of the Convention. A secretary was elected, MajorJackson. The meeting then adjourned. The Convention began its first full session on Monday, May 28.
Across town, another meeting was ending on that fateful Monday. The united Presbyterian Synods of New York and Philadelphia had met together. What they did at that final session, and at the meeting exactly one year later, was to change the course of Protestantism in America. It also paralleled to a remarkable degree the political events being engineered byJames Madison.The issues were also similar: the relation of church and state, and the issue of centralized authority. (from Appendix C, Conspiracy In Philadelphia)
(Note: the Northwest Ordinance (fka An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio) of 1787 was enacted July 13, 1787. However, the (Land) Ordinance of 1784 was enacted ~ April 23, 1784. The "Constitution"-charter was 'adopted')
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Attachment 2148
Related:
- Conspiracy in Philadelphia - Gary North
- The Two Sons of Oil, Or, The Faithful Witness for Magistracy and Ministry Upon a Scriptural Basis (alternate)
- No Treason Nos. 1, 2 & 6 - Lysander Spooner
- Royal Proclamation of 1763
- Matryoshka doll
- I Am Legend
- Cestui Que Vie Act 1666
P.S. At a very young age I was taught that a spiritual equivalent of Daniel's rejection of the Babylonian king's food and wine was a rejection of secular education (or ..unsound doctrine?).
P.S. #2 Perhaps the 14th amendment was purposed as a doorway for corporations to devour the usufruct? (IMHO that has been that was always a key purpose: to give corporations 'personhood'. The 'race' issue was always a distraction.)
P.S. #3 Perhaps "Calvin/Cauin/Cohen"-ism and company were out to see to it that usury was upheld with a goal of maintaining in perpetuity a standing, captive zombie population.
When the church becomes confused with the State the sheep might lose their senses and mistake wolf country for home. This confusion of church with state has 'infected' the Americas, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by David Merrill