Rumblings from the dark.

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After reading this article (it is very long but worth the read if you believe in capitalism and would like to see an example of how it can and does work), I started remember something I have said before. And, it became clearer. Oh, and I am stealing this link from the Goomba News Network.

I have always believed that Christianity and capitalism, not to be confused with corporatism which is another form of socialism, have a direct link both among men and in accordance with the will of God as has been written in and out of the bible. This article certainly shows what happens when men decide to be free men and to work for gain. It also shows what happens when they sit and wait to be given what they get. It is, by far, easier to give up great hope, in attempt to be shielded from great loss, for meager beans. It is also a death sentence waiting to happen. For whoever is giving you beans, in the end, will always become a bean counter. And, to that end, the beans will become more valuable than those who receive them. And beyond that, by becoming the lord of economics, any centralized planner will surely fail to be able to produce the beans. Governments are terrible about production, especially when the workers gain nothing by working harder except derision.

I see more and more clearly why capitalism is the enemy of those who support socialism and communism. It has nothing to do with the greed of capitalists. It is that very greed which ensures all near it gain. Even the greediest man can see his folly at some point and change. No government ever has by choice. It is the fact that capitalists are able to usurp power, and spread it to other non-government forces, right down to the smallest citizen. Wealth and power, in the hands of the many, in spite of the "evils of greed" is why such systems are anathema to those who seek to share other people's gains or create equality of outcome. And more, the attack on capitalism is, in a sideways or direct manner, an attack on God.

God did say, in a round about way, do these things and you will prosper. One might say he was the first economist. The sacrifices God sought were not a means of gaining for His own right if worship was sought, the sacrifices were very much a part of keeping people mindful of what they had, knowing they needed to give meant that they would tend to what they had more carefully, realizing the stock had to be in good order meant that keeping their herds (their wealth) in order was a necessary business plan, and offering some of that both to the poor and God helped them realize their place in the way of things. If you look at the mechanics of the system, it works. It keeps wealth production in order, it feeds the poor, and it maintains a humility about the wealth and the generation of it. One might even see how communists, thus socialists, have attempted to supplant God, in their ignorance and finally deceit. But God is not communal, He is King. This is the only thing they have right, if too, they must be lie about it. Humans become their sacrificial "animals", for the "good of the people".

I see, everyday, how the Godless wish to remove God and sit His throne. I see too, for millennia now, how this has always failed. The options when this occurs, for the most part, have been all of a weak tribal nature. They have taken the form of the mafia, to the zeal and corruption coming from socialism and communism. There has never been a successful revolution rooted outside of the inclusion of God as a mainstay and base for change. The one thing common with Godless revolutions is that the greed is real and absolute to the point of economic destruction and the privation of citizens in every manner possible. The stealing and misuse of all wealth and the production of wealth to the ruin of all, the corruption of the family as a social device and connection between people and between people and God, the disfranchisement of personal God given rights, and the attempted separation of man from God. The only thing to come from such works is murder on the grandest scales possible.

We are on the brink of, or past, this very precipice. This nation, which revolted within the will of God, is yielding to the evils of the rest of the world. The socialism, if firmly established, will only bring death and chaos. The iron curtain is descending. There is hope. God has always been on the side of those who sincerely choose Him, more so when their chances were slim and their numbers were vastly outnumbered by the enemy. He has indicated, even then, that it was not the people, but He who went forth. Our revolutionary forefathers were, as well, a minority and a successful one. All through the Old Testament, those few in number but rich in faith won the day through the hand of God and in faith. I am sure there are some powerful of faith still in this land. Christ showed us how One can defeat even death. Will enough remember? Will they act? What will I do?