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Seditious Use of The Doctrine of The Lesser Magistrate

Welcome to the new ‘Echo Chamber’ at Samuel Adams Returns. Why that name for this newsletter, blog/vlog? Frankly it seems that most of what is produced within this newsletter, blog/vlog posts only reverberate within a chamber of the cavernous bellowing from a cacophony of talking heads of various political, social and religious genres. The modern pushers of communication emotionalism are no different than the contentious wranglers of words during all ages, especially during the founding era of this nation. I will always contend that there is nothing spoken or written that has not already been (Ecclesiastes 1:9). It is the lack of understanding history and the pursuit of humanistic rationalism that champions modern cognitive dissonance in political, cultural and even religious thinking and language.

Hence, the furthering of new as well as ambiguous ‘narratives’ / story telling greater than historical facts and systematic reason¹. Through the education system, media and social media, we have well developed non-thinkers. We now have the gulable acting on emotionalism instead of truth established, at the very least, in natural revelation.

With that, I say again, Hello Echo Chamber at Samuels Adams Returns where we will look at our present through the mirrors of history.

Just a note, I may not be able to get to the video production of the postings. As you can visualize by the content here, I am continuing to do a lot of deep study in early church history, the writings of 1^st and 2^nd century church fathers as well as all the regular study I do to prepare for these newsletters. Hopefully for you, it is the content that matters.

On To The Topic for November and December

What is the seditious use of The Doctrine of The Lesser Magistrate? 

We are seeing it everywhere in government. From the local level to the national. We are seeing the ideologues imbedded in every branch of government, especially in bureaucracies, defying existing law, Constitutionalism and reason. The majority in government even repudiate natural law / revelation as well as the designer and giver of the said natural law / revelation. Mostly in he last one-hundred-fifty years, the interlopers of humanism have filled the hallowed halls of government with the purpose on remaking foundational intent into something other than our established Constitutional Republic.

There are lists of reasons for the afore mentioned transformation of governance by anti-God ideologue lesser magistrates, but most significant are the mutations of higher education’s leadership. The presidents and staff of universities moved away from Christian Biblical presuppositions of every topic to that of humanism. Dr. Gary North points out in his book ‘The Biblical Structure of History.’ that the likes of Andrew Dickson White in 1896 ‘wrote one of the most important humanist books designed to undermine respect for Christianity: History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. He was a Protestant theological liberal. He hated any form of Protestantism that affirmed the final authority of the Bible.’ This as well as other humanist, socialist and communist ideologies has developed a divided nation with non-Christians having a point of disdain and enmity for all that is morally defined by Biblical truth. Continue reading →