You can argue about if democracy *can* work, but I can guarantee you it won't work when you make it your god.
Refusing to look at the flaws ( "it's bad, but everything else is worse" - is this ) is making it your god.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/40ca4355-af5a-4299-8b71-f7f1d9e78fbb
Refusing to look at the flaws ( "it's bad, but everything else is worse" - is this ) is making it your god.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/40ca4355-af5a-4299-8b71-f7f1d9e78fbb
"And this is called the wealthy class, and the drones feed upon them.
That is pretty much the case, he said.
The people are a third class, consisting of those who work with their own hands; they are not politicians, and have not much to live upon. This, when assembled, is the largest and most powerful class in a democracy.
True, he said; but then the multitude is seldom willing to congregate unless they get a little honey.
And do they not share? I said. Do not their leaders deprive the rich of their estates and distribute them among the people; at the same time taking care to reserve the larger part for themselves?
Why, yes, he said, to that extent the people do share.
And the persons whose property is taken from them are compelled to defend themselves before the people as they best can?
What else can they do?" - Plato discussing democracy in book 8 of The Republic. This is part of a description of how democracy descends inevitably into Tyranny.
That is pretty much the case, he said.
The people are a third class, consisting of those who work with their own hands; they are not politicians, and have not much to live upon. This, when assembled, is the largest and most powerful class in a democracy.
True, he said; but then the multitude is seldom willing to congregate unless they get a little honey.
And do they not share? I said. Do not their leaders deprive the rich of their estates and distribute them among the people; at the same time taking care to reserve the larger part for themselves?
Why, yes, he said, to that extent the people do share.
And the persons whose property is taken from them are compelled to defend themselves before the people as they best can?
What else can they do?" - Plato discussing democracy in book 8 of The Republic. This is part of a description of how democracy descends inevitably into Tyranny.
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@sj_zero yes, we are much more alike the Greeks than a progressive wants to admit.
@AmonMaritza because it makes their tummy sad
@AmonMaritza @sickburnbro Because imposing Christian culture is bad, for some reason, and encouraging conversion indirectly through imposing Christian culture means too many insincere converts, supposedly.*
*I've never seen anyone prove that from Scriptures itself, except maybe a couple of completely out-of-context verses (mainly John 18:36 and Ephesians 6:12). It's primarily through an extra-Biblical interpretation of history or through some natural law theorem.
*I've never seen anyone prove that from Scriptures itself, except maybe a couple of completely out-of-context verses (mainly John 18:36 and Ephesians 6:12). It's primarily through an extra-Biblical interpretation of history or through some natural law theorem.
@SuperSnekFriend @AmonMaritza @sickburnbro Even then, an insincere convert can very well raise sincerely faithful children. An open nonbeliever can only do that if his children go against him.
@nierenstein @AmonMaritza @sickburnbro Now you are thinking covenantly, a word which scares many non-Reformed Evangelicals.
@SuperSnekFriend @AmonMaritza @sickburnbro He KJVed across the room covenantly
@SuperSnekFriend @AmonMaritza @sickburnbro I have never hears the word "covenantly" before in my life tbh
@nierenstein @AmonMaritza @sickburnbro It refers to covenant theology, a concept that is one of the roots of Reformed theology. In fact, you can be Calvinistic but not Reformed if you deny covenant theology, which is why you will some theologians deny that guys like MacArthur are Reformed because MacArthur denies covenant theology through his dispensationalism.
ligonier.org/guides/covenant-theology
ligonier.org/guides/covenant-theology
@sickburnbro We aught to have been a new kingdom with a king instead of a historically KNOWN TO FAIL political system. Granted, in the founding father's defense, their intentions and what we have today are two radically different things. No small degree of kike subversion saw to that.