"[D]emocracy
will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do
what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or
liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a
system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities,
all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the
capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."
--
John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763
"For
avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy ... the only ground of hope must
be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base
of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free
governments."
-- Governor Morris, A Diary of
the French Revolution, 1792
When
we no longer turn to the religion of the Creator as revealed in His inspired
Book, the Bible for our moral, then we are doomed as a people! There is no
doubt that economics is a big issue in this years' elections but the problem
with economics is not economics - its divine economics. The first rule of
divine economics is to "deny self" (Luke 9:23).
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