A Shroud of Darkness Now Covers Chick-fil-A (CFA)

(MANSFIELD, OHIO) For several months before the revelation of CFA’s stealth double-minded support of ungodly, unwholesome charities, CFA was invited to bring their business to Ohio. Many Christians and conservative supporter and even Pastors wanted to bring such a principled (we thought) organization to town.

 

Chick-fil-A in the Dark

EXPOSING DARKNESS
   

However, it has been revealed by a multitude of sources that CFA has been stealthily double-minded in support of ungodly, unwholesome charities. Will they continue to bring their chicken to town? Will the community still want them to come?
   

The last few weeks we found out a different story. Behind their seemingly the Christian façade, CFA was supporting anti-biblical organizations since maybe 2014. They announced a week or so ago their intent to dump support for Christian charities like the SalvationArmy, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. All solid gospel-centered, Christ-honoring, bible-following organizations.  The "crime" that these organizations are guilty of is their support for human life and for biblical and biological man-woman marriage.  These positions are anathema and totally unacceptable to the LGBT advocates and their allies.
  

NEW PRIORITIES
   

CFA leadership has annonced their intent to serve mammon (money) over ministries. Apparently, they want to be welcome in lucrative and liberal metropolitan airports in the South (San Antonio) and out West. They want to be welcomed in sodomy-friendly Canada. So, corporate leadership under Dan Cathy, son of the founder, and Chairman of the Board, they essentially threw Jesus under the bus in favor of promoting a more LGBT and abortion friendly persona.

One article title I recently saw summarized the current state of affairs, Chick-fil-A’s New Marketing Strategy: Let’s Make Everybody Hate Us! That says it all. They have alienated many of their former defenders and supporters, Christians and conservatives, who wanted to support a principled organization. However, CFA will continue to be bullied by Leftist LGBT lobby advocates, who will settle for nothing less from CFA and all major corporations than full capitulation to all their demands and maybe even the renunciation of Jesus Christ.

You cannot serve two masters. CFA apparently has chose NOT to serve God. That leave only money, Satan and the world.

CONTRAST DARKNESS AND LIGHT

Let us hope that Chick-fil-A will turn from taking the broad way and stick to the narrow path that their founder Truett Cathy had set them on before he died.

Where is your treasure?

Below is a letter that I wrote to local Christian radio station after a comment made by one of morning show personalities.

I was listening to your station one morning and I heard a comment that you made about a man who built some kind of bomb shelter, possibly for the reason that he wanted to be safe in case of a nuclear attack or tornado or something.  To show that this man was not doing what is right, you quoted Matthew 6:19-21:

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

And you also may have quoted Matthew 6:25-29:

Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Well, I have a few verses of my own.  (I hope that you will bear with me because this is a long letter.)  But first, I want to explain that I am what you call a “prepper”.  I do not have a bomb shelter, and I am not planning on building one any time soon.  But as a “prepper”, I do believe in preparing myself in case that there is a disaster.  I do store food with a long shelf life, I have means of storing and purifying water, and I am working on obtaining alternative power sources.  And I don’t believe that there is anything wrong with this for the following reasons. 

It is most obvious that Jesus is not teaching that people should not take reasonable precautions.  Notice he uses the word “treasure” in Matthew 6:19-21.  In my book, necessities like food, clothing, and shelter are not treasures (i.e. luxuries).  You may ask, “But what about verses 25-29?  Don’t they teach that “prepping” is unwise?”  No it doesn’t for this simple reason:  I am not worrying about what is going to happen.  I know that God will take care of me no matter what.  But that doesn’t mean you should completely throw caution to the wind.  I know that God can destroy even the best bomb shelter. And He can save someone from mortal harm who takes no precautions at all.  I know such people.  I know God takes care of them.  Some are not able to “prep” because they can barely get by even day to day.  But those who “prep” can be blessing to those who don’t if something happens.  God doesn’t call everyone to do this.  Some people He chooses to live by the seat of their pants (e.g. Matthew 10:9).

Think about this in terms of other precautions like smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, and insurance policies of various kinds.  And what about saving money?  Is it wrong to have CDs, IRAs, 401Ks, saving accounts, annuities, stocks, bonds, or mutual funds?  Aren’t these also “stored treasures”? (See footnote below.)  When people do these things, it isn’t that they don’t trust God, they are just trying to be wise stewards of what God has given them just as many righteous people did in the Bible.  For example, Joseph took the precaution of storing lots of food in order to preserve the people from the forthcoming famine.  (See Genesis 41:28-36.)

“A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.”  Proverbs 22:3

So I think that your real problem with what this “bomb shelter” man is doing is one or more of the following:

1. The measures that this man is taking are too extreme.  He is spending too much money on precautions which could be spent on advancing the Kingdom of God (i.e. evangelism, giving to the poor, and other ministries). 
2. The threat that this man is preparing for is too remote to justify this amount of preparedness.
3. The precautions would not succeed for very long (if at all) even if that type of disaster really did happen.

For reason number 1, I would say that that is up to God to judge.  As I indicated above, God uses different people for different purposes and just because what someone else is doing isn’t what God has called you to do, doesn’t mean that they are outside of God’s will.

For reason number 2, I would agree with you depending on the circumstances.  I blame the news media, politicians, and even some Christian preachers for using fear to drive people to such extremes.  The chances of Iran or any other nation hitting us with a nuclear weapon is zero.  This is just a case of people playing on your fears in order to promote the bottom line of the military-industrial complex.  It may also have to do with racism and hatred of Muslims. 

But on the other hand, if the reason for the underground bunker is a precaution against a tornado or hurricane, and if you live in area where such disasters are common, then I have no problem with it.

For reason number 3, again it depends on the circumstances.

Finally I would like to say that for me, preparedness isn’t just about surviving some impending disaster, but it’s about leverage and dependency.  There is nothing wrong with being dependent on God or the (local) church.  But the more you are dependent on the world, the more leverage the world has against you to cause you to stumble.  For example, if you have your own means of providing for your own healthcare needs instead of a health insurance policy or government program, then you don’t have to worry about your payments into the system being used for abortions or other sinful practices.  Your electric company may subsidize television programs which are not family friendly, so it’s better not to be absolutely dependent on them.  Think of it as keeping your options open so that you do not become a slave of evil.  I might even describe some people who unwilling to make the extra effort to divest themselves of the world in these ways as being lazy.  But I am not accusing any specific people because I also realize that not everyone is able to do these things.

Footnote:

All of the investments I mentioned are usually dependent on U.S. dollars.  This is legal tender that we have now in the U.S. and is called “Federal Reserve Notes”.  These are not backed by silver or gold as they once were.  They are subject to inflation and could be become worthless if the Federal Reserve Bank produces massive quantities of them, and it is in their power to do so.  This type of hyperinflation happened in Germany about 100 years ago.  People had to bring wheelbarrows full of cash to buy bread.  There is no reason to think that it can’t happen again in America.  If even gold (very stable element) can rust away and other tangible assets can likewise perish, how much more foolish is it to put your trust in “the full faith and credit of the United States” (mere pieces of paper with numbers printed on it!)

Respectfully,

Matthew Miller

Concerned Citizen

The Vatican Calls for One World Government and Central World Bank

If anyone needs any proof that the papacy is not of God, here it is.  This is mega-government rhetoric that should get you talking to all your Catholic friends and neighbors that they need to get out of the Catholic church.  It is amazing to me that they said that the International Monetary Fund does not have enough power over the world monetary supply and credit.  This is very alarming to me, since the IMF already routinely destroys economies like Greece.  What would they do with even more power?  Will we be next?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/45013499

Articles of Freedom, part 11

It’s been a while since I’ve written about the Articles of Freedom. I left off a few weeks ago at Article 9, so now I will go on to Article 10, the text of which follows my comments.

Here is my plan on this issue (monetary policy):

1. Immediately repeal or nullify all legal tender laws except for gold and silver coins at the state level.

2. All contracts made in Federal Reserve Notes, past, present and future would remain legally valid except securities purchased from the Federal Government and currently held by the Federal Reserve Banks would be declared void.

3. Abolish the Federal Reserve and its Board of Governors by repealing the Federal Reserve Act.

4. It may be necessary to temporarily fold portions of the Federal Reserve System into the Treasury Department. Federal Reserve notes will continue to pass out of existence as bank loans are paid off.

5. Increase the Federal production of gold and silver coins.

The CC09 plan doesn’t specifically have all things, but I agree with everything they say in this Article 10. It is also worth noting that as Federal Reserve Notes are phased out, the federal income taxes should be phased out as well--laws indicating that transactions in gold or silver coins should be exempt direct, unapportioned taxes.

ARTICLE 10.

MONEY AND ARTICLE 1 OF THE CONSTITUTION

A. REMEDIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CONGRESS

1. The Congress of the United States, in the exercise of its power authorized by Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the Constitution for the United States of America, “[t]o Coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin,” shall enact a statute:

(a) establishing a National Advisory Commission on Alternative and Competitive Currency, and

(b) calling upon each of the several States to establish their own State Advisory Commission on Alternative and Competitive Currency.

2. That the sole purpose of the said Advisory Commissions shall be to study and recommend the means by which each State individually, and the several States and Congress collectively, can promote the adoption by both the several States and the United States, as rapidly as possible, of an economically sound and Constitutional alternative and competitive currency, which shall:

(a) consist exclusively of silver and gold, the units to consist of 371.25 grains (troy) fine silver and 371.25 grains (troy) fine gold, which shall be subject to transfer from one party to another in both an electronic form measurable in any number of units, as well in tenths, hundredths, and thousandths of a unit, and the form of coins (whether of traditional or nontraditional shapes) of convenient weights consisting of multiples of the units or common fractions thereof;

(b) gradually be introduced as the media of exchange in all of the financial transactions of the governments of each of the several States and of the United States, so as in a measured manner to minimize and finally supplant the use in such transactions of Federal Reserve Notes or bank balances payable in those notes to the maximum degree possible consistent with the general welfare; and

(c) eventually supplant the use of such notes or balances in all private monetary transactions within and among each of the several States to such degree as the free market determines economically appropriate.

(d) That the National Advisory Commission shall be composed of the following persons: {…here shall be listed the proposed members of the Commission…}.

3. That, within thirty (30) days from the effective date of the said statute, the National Advisory Commission shall submit to Congress a report containing complete and specific drafts of all such legislation as may be necessary and proper for Congress to enact in order to guarantee that the citizens of each State may employ an alternative and competitive currency in all of their private economic transactions free from any form of taxation, reporting, or other regulation by the United States or any agency thereof, or by any State or agency thereof, that increases in cost, hinders, deters, discourages, delays, or renders cumbersome the use of such currency, or the consummation of transactions in which such currency is the medium of payment, in comparison to the same use of, or the consummation of similar transactions involving, Federal Reserve Notes or bank balances payable in such notes.

4. That, within thirty (30) days of its receipt of the National Advisory Commission’s report submitted pursuant to Paragraph 2, ante, Congress shall enact such legislation as will achieve the goals set out in that Paragraph.

5. That, within ninety (90) days from the effective date of the said statute, the National Advisory Commission shall submit to Congress a report containing complete and specific drafts of all such legislation as may be necessary and proper for Congress to enact in order to achieve the goals set out in Paragraph 2, ante, for the Government of the United States.

6. That, within sixty (60) days of its receipt of the National Advisory Commission’s report pursuant to Paragraph 5, ante, Congress shall enact such legislation as will achieve the goals set out in Paragraph 2, ante, for the Government of the United States.

B. REMEDIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO EACH OF THE SEVERAL STATES

1. That the Legislature in the exercise of its reserved power under Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 and the 10th Amendment, as well as other provisions of the Constitution for the United States, shall adopt a currency, other than that emitted by Congress, for use in all the financial transactions of the State. These shall by statute establish an Advisory Commission on Alternative and Competitive Currency for the State, the purpose of which shall be to study and recommend:

(i) the means, including all necessary State legislation (and where appropriate legislation that authorizes direct and independent action by units of Local government), by which the State can adopt an economically sound and constitutional alternative and competitive currency, consisting exclusively of silver and gold, initially for use in all of the financial transactions of the State’s government, thereby minimizing the use in such transactions of Federal Reserve Notes or bank balances payable in those notes, and eventually to supplant the use of such notes or balances in all private economic transactions within the State to the maximum degree possible for the benefit of its citizens; and

(ii) such legislation as may be necessary and proper for the State to enact in order to guarantee that the citizens of the State may employ such alternative and competitive currency in all of their private economic transactions free from any form of taxation, reporting, or other regulation by the State or agency thereof, that increases in cost, hinders, deters, discourages, delays, or renders cumbersome the use of such currency, or the consummation of transactions in which such currency is the medium of payment, in comparison to the same use of, or the consummation of similar transactions involving, Federal Reserve Notes or bank balances payable in such notes.

2. That the Advisory Commission shall be composed of the following persons: {…here list the proposed members of the Commission…}.

3. That the Advisory Commission shall, within sixty (60) days from the effective date of the said statute, submit to the Legislature a report containing complete and specific drafts of all such legislation as may be necessary and proper for the Legislature to enact in order to achieve the goals set out in Paragraph 1, ante.

4. That the Legislature shall, within sixty (60) days from its receipt of the drafts of legislation submitted by the Advisory Commission pursuant to Paragraph 3, ante, enact such legislation as will achieve the goals set out in Paragraph 1, ante.

C. RECOMMENDED CIVIC ACTIONS BY THE PEOPLE

WHEREAS, Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution specifies that “No state shall… make anything but gold and silver coin tender in payment of debts” and understanding the Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel whose effect has been to reduce the value of the dollar approximately 96% since its inception, Continental Congress 2009, in the interest of economic liberty:

1. Encourages networks of like-minded individuals to increasingly buy hard money coinage to use among their communities with the goal of increasing financial independence, and

2. That the aforementioned individuals, upon having established trade procedures in said hard money, shall be prepared for the replacement of the unconstitutional Federal Reserve upon its failure or abolition.

(from Articles of Freedom, the Works of the Continental Congress 2009)

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Double or nothing!

A fellow tweeter, Running4Office, posted the following ditty:

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket."

The Right Way to Amend the Constitution, part 18

This is part eighteen of an ongoing series of articles containing my proposals for amendments to the Constitution. For someone who claims so fervently to be a “Constitutionalist”, how is it that I can be so eager to change the Constitution? Well, there are several reasons. For one thing, I believe that after the Bill of Rights, much damage was done by some of the amendments that were added and the legitimacy of some of their ratifications are questionable. Secondly, the Constitution has been violated so much that the necessity of further amendments is needed to resolve the resulting problems. But this should be done extremely cautiously. My amendments are extremely unlikely to ever be introduced, much less ratified, but hey, I can dream, can’t I?

Here is my eighteenth proposed amendment (subject to revision):

The President may not enter into a treaty or other international agreement that would provide for the United States to adopt as legal tender in the United States a currency issued by an entity other than the United States.

Commentary on this proposed amendment:

This amendment was actually introduced by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. It is cosponsored by Ron Paul, but I am wondering if it is really necessary. Article I section 8 says, “The Congress shall have Power…To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin…” But the word “tender” is not used in association with any power of the federal government. If we assume that the power to make something tender is included in the definition of “regulate the value thereof” then I think the amendment would be meaningful. But the word “regulate” means to make regular or uniform, not to determine. It seems incomprehensible that the Founding Fathers would have meant for Congress to have the right to make a foreign coin legal tender, much less the President. "No State shall ... coin Money,...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts..." If the federal gov't has all power over the issue, then giving the states the power to make gold and silver Coin a Tender means nothing.

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Continental Congress Update, part 3

The election for the 2009 Continental Congress is just two days away. Go to givemeliberty.org for more info.

The Ohio candidates had another debate yesterday, which was a conference call. I asked them what their views were on abortion. (This is towards the beginning of the tape.) Then they answered questions about the second amendment, national monetary policy, and precinct strategies for winning elections. Here is the link:

http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/42260 (click on episode 30)

Here is a link to video of the first debate:

http://www.givemeliberty.org/user/congress/NewsItem.aspx?ID=1091

In Liberty,

Matt

We Must Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oguCNqCE0Kc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1STWYCn-hc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44p6wzlYMvo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh9W5YyGSC4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEdTCYeZh6w

As the above video series indicates, the Federal Reserve System is wicked and manipulative. When you go to take out a loan at a bank, the money that the bank lends to you is not money that has been deposited into someone’s savings account. The bank itself may not be one of the privileged few that can create money out of nothing, but they borrow money from (Central) banks that can. Of course, there are the restrictions on how much money these banks can create (fractional reserve requirements) and how much interest they can charge (the prime rate), but every time they do this, they are essentially robbing every American (or anyone holding U.S. Dollars) of the value of their money. The system encourages people to live beyond their means, and as, you may already see (explained further below) leads both citizens and governments into an endless cycle of debt.

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ITSELF DOES NOT CREATE NEW MONEY. They borrow it from the Federal Reserve.

Now, whenever a loan is paid off, the principal (but not the interest) ceases to exist, just as it was created when it was loaned. So the banks get to earn interest on money that was created out of thin air. Almost all of the U.S. dollars that exist were created this way—out of debt. Therefore, this is a system of perpetual indebtedness to the banks. There is only enough money loaned out to pay back the principal of the loans. Every time you take out a loan at bank, you are creating debt that can NEVER be paid off. Even if the bank repossesses someone’s car, house, or other property, these things can’t be used as currency—they must be sold for paper money because it is the only “legal tender”—the only thing that will feed the monster we have created. It will get worse and worse until the system collapses or we ABOLISH THE SYSTEM ENTIRELY (unless, as the video series points out, we sustain exponential economic growth indefinitely). The U.S. DOLLAR IS AN ELABORATE PONZI SCHEME (OR PYRAMID SCHEME).

When Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, God said:

…cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Genesis 3:17-19 (KJV)

This punishment for sin was a necessary consequence of God's sense of justice. But it made it harder for mankind to abstain from sinning. Because it then took hard work to get things to grow for food, there was more temptation to steal and kill for it instead. And in turn, other sins became more enticing as well. Later God established a covenant with Israel by which their sins could be “rolled back” through performing sacrifices. But just as the debt of money (under our current system) can never be paid off, so too was it impossible for the sins of mankind to be paid under the Old Covenant. Just as the incurring of debts under the Federal Reserve System inevitably leads to more debt and eventual collapse, so also sin inevitably leads to more sin and eventually death (both physical death and eternal separation from God). But when Christ died on the cross, the “system” of sin and death was changed. To be saved from eternal death you must believe in the One sent by God, admit that you are morally bankrupt, and turn away from sin. This is our “bankruptcy protection” from sin.

I applaud activists of various political stripes whose efforts are dedicated to restoring sound money and abolishing the Federal Reserve. But I suspect that their efforts will ultimately fail without spiritual revival. Christ is the only one who can “change the system” so as to eliminate the source of all corruption. To read more about how to saved from the curse of sin, click here.