Reformation Day My Butt. Doctrine Doesn't Matter!
Think about it, fellow Anglicans! The day before All Saints Day is Reformation Day.
Think about it, fellow Anglicans! The day before All Saints Day is Reformation Day.
Imagine, hypothetically, that all sin is permitted, and that 100% of govt. is supported by sin taxes.
Implied by the film's "the call to action", here are a few strategies that ought to be implemented:
The passage in Numbers concerns the carrying about of the Ark of the Covenant, which apparently was the cause of much fear among Israel's enemies. The point of having such a fearsome preemptive weapon was to avoid violence, not to create it. Specifically, passage says:35 Whenever the ark set out, Moses said,
"Rise up, O LORD!
May your enemies be scattered;
may your foes flee before you."36 Whenever it came to rest, he said,
"Return, O LORD,
to the countless thousands of Israel."What's especially interesting here is the prefigurement of Christ who at first Rises up to scatter God's enemies, and then afterwards Returns to His people.
To really understand what "going Galt" is you have to read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
The government is my shepherd: I need not work.
It alloweth me to lie down on a good job;
It leadeth me beside still factories;
It destroyeth my initiative.
It leadeth me in a path of a parasite for politic's sake;
Yea though I walk through the valley of laziness and deficit-spending, I will fear no evil, for the government is with me.
It prepareth an economic Utopia for me, by appropriating the earnings of my own grandchildren.
It filleth my head with false security;
My inefficiency runneth over.
Surely the government should care for me all the days of my life,
And I shall dwell in a fool's paradise forever.
Supposedly "net-neutrality" legislation takes authority away from Telcoms and other providers of Internet bandwith who might wish to discriminate against certain types of traffic, especially traffic from services provided by their competitors. The legislation therefore sounds like it's promoting the principles of democracy and freedom, but think again.
"Net neutrality" is not the freeing of Internet pipes but rather the de-privatization of Internet pipes. The freedom to communicate and to offer Internet services will, under net-neutrality, be subject to the authority (some would say the whim) of the American federal government. Net-neutrality exchanges the risk of capricious action from a Telcom and replaces it with the risk of capricious action by the government. Another way to look at it is that net-neutrality is the socialization of the Internet. If you like socialism, you'll like net-neutrality.
Opponents of net neutrality are ones that see a benefit in private property and competition, who think that it brings ever increasing supply (of bandwidth) at ever decreasing costs and with ever more types to choose between. The pessimists among them say "Choose your enemy... a Telcom that might want to throttle the bandwidth of competitors or a government that might want to throttle the bandwidth of detractors." The optimists among them say "Competition among private operators is the only way to preserve the freedom of speech the Internet once promised."