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Wisdom Wednesday: Why You Need To Know The Real Meaning of "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" With Brother André Marie Wisdom Wednesday: Why You Need To Know The Real Meaning of "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" With Brother André Marie Our Readers And Listeners Keep Us In Print & On The Air! Click here to subscribe to The CRUSADE Channel's Founders Pass Member Service & Gain 24/7 Access to Our Premium, New Talk Radio Service. www.crusadechannel.com/go What Is The Crusade Channel? The CRUSADE Channel, The Last LIVE! Radio Station Standing begins our LIVE programming with our all original CRUSADE Channel News hosted by Ron Staffard. Coupled with Mike “The King Dude” Church entertaining you during your morning drive and Rick Barrett giving you the news of the day and the narrative that will follow during your lunch break! We've interviewed over 300 guests, seen Brother Andre Marie notch his 200th broadcast of Reconquest; The Mike Church Show over 1200 episodes; launched an original LIVE! News Service; written and produced 4 Feature Length original dramas including The Last Confession of Sherlock Holmes and set sail on the coolest radio product ever, the 5 Minute Mysteries series! We were the ONLY RADIO outlet to cover the Impeachment Trials of President Trump from gavel to gavel! Now that you have discovered The Crusade, get 30 days for FREE of our premium News-Talk Radio service just head to: https://crusadechannel.com OR download our FREE app: https://apps.appmachine.com/theveritasradionetworkappIti- Did you know about Laws of Nature? If you are interested in supporting small business, be sure to check out the official store of the Crusade Channel, the Founders Tradin Post! Not to mention our amazing collection of DVD's, Cigars, T-Shirts, bumper stickers and other unique selection of items selected by Mike Church!

The continuation of my series of messages concerning natural law and your God-given rights. Topics discussed. “Woke” Marxist Baptist Convention Critical Race Hustlers The real history of the slave trade in the USA. John Locke on the natural liberty of mankind. Thomas Jefferson, and the ending of the importation of slaves in the USA. The first legal slave owner was a Black man. Who owned the slave ships, and what flag did they fly? The Barbary Slave Trade and White Christian slaves. Acts 17:15-31 The spirit of idolatry, and an altar to an Unknown God. Commentary by Matthew Henry and Albert Barnes. God does not need temples made by human hands. Important principles contained in Acts 17:15-31. Albert Barnes on the true meaning of equality. Much, much more. Social Media- www.gab.com/MisanthropicMonk Video- https://ugetube.com/@misanthropic_monk Video- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/BbJnmmsNdL5Q/ Video- https://odysee.com/@MisanthropicMonk:b Please like, share, and subscribe!

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The Declaration of Independence defines it's foundational goals as striving to conform to "The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God"--what does this cryptic phrase mean in history and for us today?

The "American Experiment" is singular in world history. It's not a nation founded on ethnicity or the legacy of a monarchy. American DNA is made up of high ideas -- the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Unalienable Rights are given by the Creator. Not man. Not human government. Is America on the edge of a Third Great Awakening?

Life Matters is your program on the right to life, on the culture that has emanated from that singular and foundational premise: the idea that your life is actually a gift given by your creator and not given by the government. And yet the government does have a specific role in your life. It has a responsibility, and that responsibility is to ensure your right to be alive. All of the rights that you have emanate from your existence. It is a very simple premise, but it is clear and straight-forward. And America's Founders put it in writing in the Declaration of Independence. The American Founders in the Declaration of Independence told the whole world about these rights that emanate from every human life, endowed by their Creator. They felt an obligation to clarify that the laws they were claiming weren’t merely asserted because they had now 'seized power,' that they could somehow make new rules becausethey had taken over government. "A decent respect for the opinions of mankind compel us to give the reasons that we are breaking these bonds, these unjust bonds," that had previously held them to the Old World. And they were very clear on why they were ethically, morally and legally justified. They gave objective facts that can be demonstrated and seen through natural law. They were invoking principals therefore, that were not personal or self-created, but could be objectively recognized by deliberative people throughout the world. Today Life Matters is going in-depth into natural law - why you should know it and be familiar with it as a premise, why it's not something you should be afraid of. It's a very important foundational element for understanding the right to life, because the right to life is an assertion from natural law principles revealed in nature. Commissioner Johnston spends extra time talking about that in order for you to understand why the ideas arrayed against natural law are so wrong. We're going to do what's known as a contrastive analysis, a comparative and contrastive analysis with, ‘the other way’ of looking at laws, ‘positivist law’. This other way of looking at laws is where you can come up with your own ideas. “How 'bout I come up with a new idea for new laws, to address this ‘new age’ we now live in?” You see, laws are basically ideas that are enforced. And what America's Founders said, and what much of WesternCivilization reinforced, is that there are principles that can be seen in nature: a ‘higher law.’ WesternCivilization actually carries an ongoing assertion about mankind. This assertion is rather essential, and of course it is held to be ‘self-evident.’ The very fact that you can consider it, reveals a deeper reality - that is, that human beings are more than merely animals. Human beings are able to see and understand spiritual things, that human beings have a spirit as well as a soul and a body. This is an important principle of Western Civilization. Judeo-Christian tradition asserts such in the “Imago Dei” - the premise that mankind is made in the image and likeness of God. The Greek and Roman traditions also viewed mankind as ‘a little lower than gods.’ And indeed, in the Greek and Roman worlds , humans were capable of making the transformation to godhood, an apotheosis, “becoming a god” should their life and ‘genius,’ or spirit, reach a destiny of fulfillment. We will examine this natural or higher law now and in our next episode exploring the contrastive principles of relativism and in particular, some of the philosophy that your opponents routinely use to dismiss the notion of a higher law, or perhaps more pointedly, the assertion that their ‘relativistic view of laws’ should be higher still. There are people who oppose your right to assert there even is a, “right to life.” They oppose the idea that all innocent lives should be protected. They oppose it and they have new ideas which they wish to substitute to govern you and all others. Where did they get those ideas? We're going to talk about Hegel and the relativist philosophers that justify much of the opposition you're seeing right now. Right now there is virulent opposition to the premise of the right to life. Many of those advocates of killing human babies, of euthanizing your grandma, they've never heard of Hegel. And yet, they've adopted a world-view that emanates from his teachings. They've been imbued with ‘values’ that justify the government -sponsored killing of these babies, and those dependent and elderly, or sick - and maybe some of them aren't sick. They're simply seen as less than perfect, less than human. A Hegelian Progressive view of the world justifies this. So this battle of ideas is very, very real. I'm going to give you some very tangible examples. Unless you understand that the right to life is a self-evident truth, as America's Founders said, you're not going to be equipped for this battle. But the right to life is based on objective facts, demonstrable facts, the fact that that baby's heart is beating as early as 18 days after conception. Or that it has unique DNA proclaiming their humanity in every cell of their dynamic body. This has nothing to do with my belief. That's an objective physical fact about a human child, about you. You were once that size. And science declares every cell in that child's body declares that that's unique human being. The DNA is a combination of the mother and father, and that unique signature is used by science to demonstrate individual lives. Science is confirming and echoing the objective reality of the God of nature. And we're going to spend time today going into depth, into natural law and why you should understand it. And especially if you're a Christian, I want you to understand it, because if you're a Christian, you say that you know this God that made nature. And I do have frustration at times with Christians I know who don't want to deal with the world of ideas. They say they don't want to deal with science or they're intimidated by science, when in fact, it should be Christians who are most interested and most committed to understanding what is objectively true. And that's what science tries to figure out. Now some people falsely assert a 'false science.' They have madeconclusions and are simply trying to create evidence to support a conclusion already in hand. Wrongo. This is not uncommon, and particularly in our era of 'talking heads' and forced public-policy isbased on who talks loudest and longest. But if you claim to be a Christian, you should be the best equipped to demonstrate why a falsehood is false. If you haven't spent time in learning how to observe what God has made and realize, as it says in the Book of Romans: Chapter 1 - Verse 20, that ‘God has revealed His invisible nature through His visible creation, so they're all without excuse.’ If you don’t understand that God has proclaimed truth objectively, and that truth is objectively proveable, you will simply fall back on your feelings and opinions, and that worst of all possible assertions for making laws to rule others… “because I believe it.” All of us have no excuse to dismiss self-evident truths, and especially Christians who believe in the Creator. He has demonstrated that in natural law, in the laws of nature and of nature's God. You should really be the best at understanding and promoting natural law and the laws of nature and nature's God. And if you're not a Christian, listen in to these scriptures anyways. They're not scary. They are self-evident truths. And you'll be amazed that it's actually those who oppose the right to life, it's actually those who oppose the laws of nature and nature's God, those who oppose self-evident truth; they're the religiousones. They have a belief system that they've adopted. They've made it their own and they're committed to it. And it is not founded in objective facts, but the conjectures of their “belief.’ Founded in assertions, and conjectures, Hegelian Progressives are seeking to prop up a sweeping and ‘spiritualized’ world view in order to justify their undying passion to move forward. To ‘progress’ to new truths and to a truly ‘just’ brave new world. Well, as pro-lifers, we're asserting that killing an innocent baby in the womb actually violates natural law. The laws of nature and of nature's God is that it's a self evident truth that that is a human baby that can't defend his or herself. Before our times that was demonstrated in the English Common Law. The child was legally protected from the moment that objective evidence existed that he or she was alive. As soon as there was 'quickening' (that movement of the child in the womb could be detected),that the baby could kick, then it was obviously a unique human being and was now protected under the English Common Law. That was a demonstration of physical evidence and it demonstrated a 'self-evident truth,' that there was a human being present and alive. And then later, Dr. Horatio's Storer, who is the Founder of ModernGynecology, started a legal crusade to protect these children in the late 1860s. He insisted that in the United States abortion be clearly outlawed because it was so obvious wrong from his study of childbirth in the UK. (In the UK they were protected in the Crimes Against the Person Act.) Dr. Storer, through his medical exposition, demonstrated this is a unique human being. As he said, “This child is my patient.’ So these are assertions of natural law. Self-evident truths in the appeal to natural law are very important when we seek to enforce civil laws in our society. And it goes way back. It goes back to the time of Aristotle, who was an observer of nature and a natural philosopher. He asserted that there was a prime mover, a great designer who designed all things. And that's why truths and objective facts could be validly observed, and you could make sense out of your observations. He referred to the moral qualities revealed in nature as natural law. Aristotle was a Greek, but when the Romans came along, Cicero was probably the best known of the legal advocates in Roman law to assert natural law. Certain facts had to be followed because they were self-evident and revealed to be morally justified or morally wrong based on what others could observe in nature. So he wasn't asserting that law should be made up by tyrants. Those with power can make up whatever law they want. He was appealing to a higher law. Cicero was an eloquent advocate for natural law and really one of those who greatly influenced Roman law. And then, throughout the Middle Ages, the laws that various European nations adopted emanated from the Roman law. Thomas Aquinas, in the Middle Ages, took these principles and he elucidated them. He underscored the fact that natural law, the laws of nature and nature's God are evident, and should be followed in a just society. These are self-evident facts, objective truths that can be seen. So I want to take just a second as we're talking at this stage that there is a contrast between objective truths and conjectured truths. When we talk about relativism, ideas that are conjectured to be “true and asserted to be true, and sometimes ‘temporarily true,’ for me, or for you. But everyone can have their ‘own truth.’ Sometimes, those who make such assertions and conjectures feel a need to justify their conjectured truths and they'll claim scientific evidence to validate it, but remember, by invoking science, they are suggesting that nature is proclaiming it, and that it can be seen in nature! (A silent salute to natural law!). In the very process of fighting nature’s dicta, they invoke natural law principles! We'll spend some time talking about such false science. And in our next episode, we'll go into great depth about a philosophy known as Hegelian progressivism that has its own, 'pseudo science' to justify incredible moral turpitude by governments. Hegel is a very important philosopher. Most of us haven't spent a lot of time with Hegel. And yet, as you will see in our next episode, Hegelian philosophy has imbued our current era, and is in direct war with natural law. So the reason you need to know that the right to life is rooted in natural law is because that's the foundation of your assertions. You need to assert what is objectively true about a human child or about an elderly patient that's vulnerable. Maybe they're in physical pain, but you can deal with the physical pain. That doesn't mean you need to kill them. And yet, false thinking and false science is being used to justify wanton killing under the law. Ultimately, these are debates about what is a ‘just law.’ So I told my Christian friends I would spend some time in the scriptures. And if you're not a Christian, that's OK. These scriptures won't hurt you. But you need to know as a Christian that you should understand natural law. Throughout the scripture, the God of Scripture is asserting that His presence is demonstrated in nature. Psalm 19  says,the heavens are declaring the glory of God that night unto night is being proclaimed and there's no country in the world, there's no language where the language of the heavens are not understood. It is proclaimed and known to everyone that there is a God who made all things, and therefore a God to whom we are responsible. This may seem very simplistic, but it is it's actually straightforward. It's not complicated. In order to avoid the evidence of God’s presence, it is we who must complicate and distract from its self-evident proclamation. Acts 17:22-29. Paul was learned in the Hebrew scriptures, but he was a Hellenic Greek. And in Tarsus, where he grew up, he learned Greek and he learned Greek poetry, obviously, because he quoted Greek poets when he went to Athens at Mars Hill. He told the Greeks there again, he wanted to speak in their language, not just verbally, but culturally. He wanted to relate to them, where they lived emotionally and intellectually. He pointed out that, “You have an altar here on Mars Hill to the unknown God. Well, that's great, because I want to tell you about this God you don't know, that He has made himself physically evident. In fact, “in Him we live and move and have our being.” Paul is explaining to others that God is here, now. God is not far away. Everything that has been made is made by God. And all of creation exists in God because you can't go anywhere to escape from Him. He existed before anything else existed. And therefore, wherever you go, there He is. David said that in the Psalms. (Psalm 139:7-12) He said, “If I took the wings of the dawn, you'd still find me. Where can I go to run and hide from you? I can't. If I descended into the deepest hell, you would still be there.” So of all people, Christians SHOULD know, God is here. And that's a very important principle in natural law. Truth can be known right now, right where you are. It's not a far-away thing. And you have heard the phrase ‘Just be here now?’ You should also know that refers also tothe kingdom of God. The more you read in scriptures about God's kingdom, you'll learn - it's right now. Listen to the verb tenses that God uses. It's right now. And very often we may misunderstand when it is said that the kingdom of God is at hand or the kingdom of God is nigh. It's actually saying “it's right here, right next to you. Just turn around.” (Matthew 6:33; Mark1:15; Luke 17:20-21) It should be crystal clear to committed Christians: The kingdom of God is in the present. And we have to understand that about truth. God has made known His truth. Right now. And it's revealed in nature right now. So being in the present is an important part of understanding God's kingdom rather than adhering toconjectures about who God is. Conjectures and misplaced preconceptions are what bring us problems. And I think you'll recall some of the stories, the parables Jesus told. In the parable of the talents, it was that last servant he gave a talent to who got things wrong. The misinformed and worthless servant had conjectured about who God is. He didn't really know his Master. (Matthew25:20-30) He wasn’t watching and observing his master, didn't spend time right now understanding the nature of God. And that's what we are called to do - spend time in the PRESENT, observing and noting the things of God, physically and then spiritually. He has most immediately manifestedHimself in His physical creation. Remember, whenever God identifies himself, He uses the present tense verb- constantly. Literally “I am who am.” God is in the present. And you're in the present too, right now. You're invited right now into His presence. So if you're not a Christian, you should know that God is inviting you. He is present and He's inviting you through Jesus to have forgiveness for your errors because that's what sin means. You made a mistake. It's an error. You missed it. You simply don’t get what He has already shown you in nature. Sin means to miss a target. It’s from old English archery. You miss it. And once you realize you're missing it, it is a great opportunity to adjust, and take a better shot with that new understanding. Nature is still proclaiming, “God is still here,” and because He is eternal and unchanging, He still loves you and wants to hang out with you. You can have that opportunity through Jesus, through the Christ. One of the most compelling truths about natural law, and understanding truth through looking closely at nature is said in, 'He who made the eyecan see and you can see me,” a very straight forward deduction from natural law in the present. The God who made the eye can see. You have the ability to see. Therefore, it is only logical that your Maker also is able to see. (Ps 94:9) And of course, throughout the Old Testament when God and the Jews rebuke heathens for their ignorance, for their misconceptions; they point to the obvious: made idols. The idols can't see or do anything. They're phony, carved of wood or stone. They were made up. They are arbitrary. They were conjectures. They're made up out of the futility of the mind of the misled individual. But what those individuals needed to do is simply look closely at what God had actually made: (Jeremiah51:17-19) God is. He always was. He always will be. He always remains the same. He's here and He wants to show Himself to you. He has demonstrated that and He is demonstrating it through nature. And once you recognize His existence, then you can start seeking Him. You have to, as it says in Hebrews (Heb. 11:6), “Those who come to God must first believe that He is”. This is the starting point. He Is - right now. And then it says they must also believe, “He is a reward for those who diligently seek Him”. So in all these statements of scripture, as we talk about natural law, we can talked about it in depth, both with Christians and those who aren't! All of us live surrounded by the natural world, which is imbued with ‘demonstrating truth.’ We're talking about coming to an understanding of what really is, what is really true, and that's God. God made all things. And He's trying to tell you that. That's what natural law is. That's what America's founders were appealing to - the laws of nature and of nature's God, to knowable and ‘self-evident truth'. There's so many other scriptures I want to share with you. The scriptures are replete with demonstrating that God is in the present. And if you want to follow God, you must also live in the present. And you must also take the time to consider deeply. I know there are a lot of people who look at the stars, but they don't consider the deeper significance of the vastness of creation and the designer of creation, so in our next episode we'll spend a little time contrasting the ‘natural law’ with arbitrary ‘synthetic law’. We are doing a comparative and a contrasting analysis of relativism and natural law. You should be an advocate of natural law and you should be able to disprove those relativists, those who are asserting their own conjectures about laws they think should be there. But you, if you believe God made all things and especially if you claim a relationship with Him, you should be able to demonstrate what the good and just principles of God's nature are that He's revealed in nature. Again, if you're a Christian, you should be a master of natural law. Progressivism is the passionate religion of cultural‘progress’. It's actually a faith in conjectured principles, in things that the particular branch of that religion may deeply believe. So there's a lot of feelings, a lot of strong feelings in the religion of progressivism. And I do want to remind you, if you're a Christian, you know that you're not supposed to build your faith on feelings. That's one of your problems. It's true. And Christians who think religion and feelings are the same thing only get in trouble. You need to build your faith on who God is, on the principles He has laid out for you to consider - not on how you feel about Him or His principles. You will make big mistakes if feelings are your guide. Remember the unworthy servant and the talents. Following and empowering feelings is a big error of those who follow Hegelian progressivism and in our next episode I'm going to spend time again with Hegel, because you may not know his name, but the philosophy of Hegel has infected our culture and seduced it to make conjectures, unsubstantiated and emotional conjectures, to be honored as ‘new truth’. They are the “new truths” for this very-secular religion, this belief system that is at war with sound thinking. They say that US Treasury agents are taught to recognize counterfeit money by spending lots of time with real currency, feeling and examining and understanding its qualities. The real thing is their basis of knowledge. Then, they can readily recognize counterfeits. So it is with the principles of natural law When you truly are rooted in an understanding and appreciation of natural law as the premise for just laws and “self-evident truth,” you will have a clearer ability to see the seductive deceitfulness of progressivism’s ways and influence on every aspect of our culture. You will be able to detect and reveal it for what it is: counterfeit ‘truth’. Hegelian progressivism is compellingly seductive. You will see why. These are dangerous ideas. Remember, you're in a battle of ideas. So sharpen your intellectual tools, “Gird up the loins of your mind.’ Be ready for this battle, because life is at stake.

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The Constitution is more than a civic and governmental document or a part of history. It is a living divine document derived from Nature's Law and Nature's God. Learn the science of government, as above, so below and no respecter of men.

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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed t --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support

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07/03/2019 The Divinely Inspired Declaration of Independence, Government By God Providing Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness And More!!! Washington Times Article: The idea that the law must apply uniformly to all was something that the Founding Fathers considered to be of fundamental importance. It was, in James Madison’s words, something “without which every government degenerates into tyranny.” A system in which elected officials make “legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of society” is inconsistent with a free society. According to Madison, it creates a “state of things in which it may be said with some truth that the laws are made for the few, not for the many.” Madison’s words have a peculiar relevance to our times. Many Americans were disgusted, if not shocked, by a “60 Minutes” report that featured the findings of a new book, written by the Hoover Institution’s Peter Schweizer, demonstrating the alarming extent to which members of Congress are essentially immune from laws that apply to the rest of society. Many members, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have - by leveraging their political connections or insider political intelligence - reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits from trading activity that likely would be illegal if done by a private citizen. The Declaration of Independence:In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. 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. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

The battle of ideas is for your mind and the minds of your loved ones. If you're not on guard and thinking through the ideas that have been placed there by the popular media and maybe even by friends who are misinformed, then you can bring great harm to yourself and others and to society itself. Laws are just ideas that are enforced. So this battle of ideas is more than just a metaphor because what we're talking about is human lives. The right to life is about restoring legal protection for human beings. That was taken away in 1973 and it's getting worse. It's not just human babies in the womb. Now it's the elderly sick. It's those who are seriously ill. And the best answer is suggested to be, of course, to kill them “with compassion”. Assisted suicide and other forms of euthanasia are now being practiced in the United States. If you don't understand this battle of ideas you will succumb to this battle. And you won't be able to protect those that you love because the laws won't protect them. So I'm going to talk today about a very important issue in this battle, about our laws, and how our laws are made.  This episode is called “The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.” This is an exciting episode for me. Our program is heard on many Christian stations so I'm particularly excited about explaining and exploring the foundational elements in our society.  What was it that our founders had in mind when they talked about the laws of nature and of nature's God? Let me explain why we're going to go through this, because I have met many Christian believers who actually don't fully comprehend the details of what America’s founders did and how they offered us a Biblical worldview at our national founding. They did not insist that a particular theology was going to be the basis of our laws and if you look at who are founders were, each and every one of them and every one of those colonies actually had a different Christian tradition.  They had already had some conflict regarding that - which particular theology would guide one's laws.   They had come from the Old World where continental Europe and yes, even England, had some serious - literally bloodbaths - over particular nuances of theology in the law. They did not want that and yet somehow, they were able to offer us a Biblical worldview. How did they do that? It's really amazing. It's critical that you understand this. And the reason is that many Christians don't believe in the laws of nature - they don't believe in natural law! That’s a big mistake and what it indicates to me is that they don't understand the idea. They're confusing ideas.  And so they can't get it right.   They're confusing it - the laws of nature and of Nature's God - natural law with the laws of the so-called law of natural selection. It’s quite different but that's what they think it is.  They think it's the same as the law of the jungle - the survival of the fittest - lex talionis, where natural inclinations determine what laws should be.  Only the strong survive, etc.  but that particular premise, the so called laws of natural selection- that's the opposite of what the Founders talked about in natural law. Natural law refers to viewing nature and the nature of human beings as uniquely ordered and that's actually a tradition in Western Civilization - the idea that there's something special about human beings.  Later in the program, we’ll be joined by actor John Demakas who does an excellent job in his reading Scriptures.  I'm going to explain to you if you're a Christian, and even if you're not a Christian, why the laws of nature and of nature's God is very much reflected in the Scriptures as the premise on which we should make laws.  It’s not according to my theology, not according to your theology, but according to the laws of nature that are objectively revealed. These are self-evident truths that are objectively seen and can be understood by pointing them out, rather than saying, “I believe it, you've gotta believe it” If you think you can just make the laws of your state or nation based on your theology and you're going to put your theology into the law, then you're just acting like American Talabani. You must be able to demonstrate what the good and just law should be.

Bill Keeler was being quite forthwith talking to Joe Griffo, Anthony Picente and some other local politicians on WIBX 950 this morning here in Upstate New York. Some of these guys are pretty reasonable politicians and I have followed many of them for many years. Now they have gone off the frigging tracks. They called the citizens of the Mohawk Valley some pretty aggressive and insulting names and also threw Cuomo under the bus. They did so very casually because they fear his wrath and his fortune. Listen to the show for more.  I leave you today with this quote from the Declaration of Independence...  "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

On June 26, 2015 five members of the U.S. Supreme Court decided to disregard "the laws of Nature and Nature's God" when they redefined marriage by allowing same-sex couples to wed across all 50 States. How will this change the moral landscape of our country? How will this impact the church? How might this invite the judgment of God upon America? How can we be gracious and loving toward homosexuals and still stand for truth in our day? It's a complex matter, and one which Pastor Gary tackles in today's teaching, "America, Will You Stand?"

On June 26, 2015 five members of the U.S. Supreme Court decided to disregard "the laws of Nature and Nature's God" when they redefined marriage by allowing same-sex couples to wed across all 50 States. How will this change the moral landscape of our country? How will this impact the church? How might this invite the judgment of God upon America? How can we be gracious and loving toward homosexuals and still stand for truth in our day? It's a complex matter, and one which Pastor Gary tackles in today's teaching, "America, Will You Stand?"

Recognize this? “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Yup, it's the very first line of the American Declaration of Independence. And, yes, we know that the Declaration is not part of the Constitution. Sheesh. Give us a break - it's still pretty important. In fact, it's so important that we wonder: just what are these "Laws of Nature" and who is this “Nature’s God?” Jesus? Vishnu? Zeus? Or perhaps someone else? Author Matthew Stewart digs deep into history and philosophy and shares his findings with us in his new book, "Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic."

Laws of Nature and of Nature's God.  Rights are God-given, and powers to the federal government were given by the States, all other authorities are reserved to the States Join Douglas V. Gibbs of Political Pistachio as he journeys through the United States Constitution. We study the concepts, principles, and direct text of the U.S. Constitution from the original point of view of the Founding Fathers. New episodes each Sunday Morning at 9:00 am Pacific Time. Go to Constitution Study Radio for all podcasts of past episodes. Doug's book, 25 Myths of the United States Constitution is available on Amazon, and CreateSpace.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.  This show sponsored by STUDENTSFORABATTERFUTURE    

George Orwell's "1984": "Down the Memory Hole" - John Dewey, Frankfurt School, Prussia - Media, Fashion, Human Nature - "Herd Management". New Religion - Channelling, Drugs, Timothy Leary, "Illumined Society" - Mother Earth, "Greening" - CIA, Hallucinogenic Drugs - "The Beatles", India, Maharishi Yogi. LSD Experimentation, Lord Victor Rothschild, MI5, MI6. Hinduism, New Age, Ego - Mikhail Gorbachev, Earth Worship - Club of Rome, Global Warming. "New World Order", Planned Controlled Society - Drugged Public, Mind Alteration, Schizophrenia - Ancient India, Vegetarianism - Charles Darwin. Beatniks, Marijuana, Jazz, Europe - Pop Music - Stereo, Sequencing, Altered States. Aleister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky, Gurus - Suggestibility - Shamans, Freemasonic Orders. Gender Wars, Feminist Movement, CIA - Abortion Issue - Emotive Topics - Free Love, Germany, 1920's - New Ready-Made Values. "Power Animals", Psychotherapy, Group Encounter Meetings - Perennial Religion - Personal Power, Vanity. Cybernetics, Electronic "Miracles", "Chi" Machines - Faith, Technology - Brain Chip - "We're All One" (No More YOU.) - Human Robot, Renewable Resource. *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 20, 2007 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Perception - Desensitization - Freemasonry, "Whole in Body", Reproductive Powers, Higher Orders, Genealogy, Breeding Offspring, Marriage Selection. "Synagogue" (from Greek) - Temple - Hebrew and Babylonian Talmud - Origin of Jewish Bible, 72 Priests Living in Egypt - Exoteric and Esoteric. Proctor and Gamble - Synthetic Estrogen, Baby Bottles, Plastic, Bisphenol-A - Breastfeeding, Mother's Milk - Women Losing Pelvic Structure - Caesarian Sections. Psychopathy, Granaries, Peat Bogs - High Associations of Secrecy (Gangs) - Masonic Obelisks on US-Canada Border - Enemies Within. Celtic Allergy to Tyranny - Survival Mechanism - Compartmentalization of Brain - Self-Preservation - IQ Drop. Cell-Phone, Cells, Worker Bees. Canada - Maple Leaf: Red=Dead Leaf, 12 (13) Points, Red and White (Egyptian Crown), Cultural Revolution - Parliament, Privy Council. Big Ben (Obelisk), Ben-Ben, Phallic Symbol, Arches, Symbolism - George Washington Monument - "Reflection" of Female. (Article: "Canadian retail chain pulls plastic water bottles" by Claire Sibonney, Yahoo News - Dec. 7, 2007.) *Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 20, 2007 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)