Dear Sirs,
A comment regarding "A Calvinist Defense of Anarcho-Capitalism"
at http://members.aol.com/VFTfiles/thesis/summary01.htm
Excerpt of that site:
"The Divine Right of Kings" dominated political thinking in those days, a doctrine which
- every priest and prince agreed was an essential doctrine of the Christian Faith,
- the abandonment of which would result in the destruction of the social order,
- a doctrine which has been universally repudiated in favor of the doctrine of "the consent of the governed,"
- and is believed by virtually nobody in the 21st century.
Sirs, the first two bullet items above are commendably correct.
The last two are astonishingly blind.
The ultimate purveyors of 99.99% of all the wars and evil
described in your website... are precisely those whom the
last bullet item relegates as "virtually nobody."
Are you not aware.that Henry Ford nurtured not only Hitler,
but also the young Ferdinand Hohenzollern (son of Wilhelm II),
who now holds a high position in German media? Are you not
aware of who is behind schlock like "The Da Vinci Code," and
why such as that is so stridently foisted on the public ?
The American founding fathers created a contradiction: the
counter-state, simultaneously Christian and anti-theocratic.
Nothing more revolutionary had ever been seen in history.
Which is why it became an immediate target, not only through
armed reprisal (1812) but, even before that, economic and
political subtrefuge. Witness the passage of the Sedition Act,
about which Jefferson wrote in 1798 to a friend:
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass
over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their
true sight, restore their government to it's true principles.
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in
spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long
oppressions of enormous public debt......If the game runs
sometimes against us at home we must have patience till
luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning
back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where
principles are at stake."
But, you may ask, what of slavery? Detractors of the American
Revolution point, with ardor, to the condoning of slavery by
many of our founding fathers as ‘evidence’ that America was
‘evil from its inception.’ The truth is that America did not
start slavery - it ended slavery. Slavery was, and yet today is
- primarily, patently and inherently - a monarchist institution.
It is capitalistic only secondarily. Slavery was a tenaciously
clinging vestige of monarchism that America threw off - at
great personal cost. Prominent black historian Edward Smith
has said:
“Through his extensive readings of the writings of
the founding fathers, Lincoln had convinced himself that
although many of our nation's earliest leaders greatly
benefited from the culture of "enlightened leisure" that
slavery provided, they nonetheless disliked the institution
and were working toward its gradual extinction.”
http://members.tripod.com/~g_cowardin/rcwrt/ar042002.htm#1
There was never anything like the late great America.
It re-wrote all the rules.
Shlama d'Maryan (Peace of our Lord)
Robert Gipson
rlgips@directcon.net