MAKERS AND BREAKERS
Law breakers, treaty breakers, and promise breakers have a long glorified history in American life.
In truth, many of these very same white persons have also, as often been, paradoxically, the principal law makers, treaty makers, and promise makers, truth be known.
Those who make'm, break'm!
Yet, despite having blithely broken their very own sacred, civil, common law, documents, treaties and promises, since 1789, the year of the United States of America's founding, they yet have the gall to hold themselves out as blameless, as as honest, as lawful, moral, and righteous, while hypocritically labeling, excoriating, condemning American non-whites as being lawless, immoral, unrighteous, dishonest, and blameworthy!
They have perfumed the air with high sounding phrases. They have hidden their baleful visages behind beatific creeds. They are forever boasting of their heritage and system of universal rights and human love. But, inwardly they are the ravening wolves that Jesus Christ decried centuries ago; Remus and Romulus' whelp.
http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-15.htm
Of course, life has few absolutes. Even precious minerals like silver, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and gold have a quanta of impurities--or exceptions. Such impurities or exceptions are no less very true of law maker/breakers, treaty makers/breakers, and promise makers/breakers, of all "races."
Therein lies the rub! Which is which? The scriptures teach that bad seed, tares, were secretly sown into the field at night, by "an enemy," while the men were asleep. When the good and bad seed sprouted, servants inquired what should be done, given their admixture? Just pull them up?
The householder explained that they were to leave them alone, until the harvest. Then, he would have the reapers pull the tares up, first, to be burned: thereafter he would have them gather the wheat into his barns. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/…
This simple scriptural lesson is pregnant with penetrating, and bountiful teachings. First, "an enemy" is ever around to destroy, confound, undermine, or dilute your labors. Such you cannot resist because you must "sleep!"
Upon discovering the baleful trespasser's deeds, showing patience and diligence is preferable to acting hastily or precipitately, lest you throw away the good with the bad. Good and bad, i.e., wheat and tares are recognizably different even to non-specialists like servants. However because their root structures become one, that is, entangled during their youth, removing one risks jeopardizing both lives, both wheat and tares.
At harvest, at maturity, their root structures will have become sufficiently disentangled to enable the efficient reapers to discern and to deracinate, to pull up, the subversively trespassing tares, first, for burning, leaving the primordial wheat for reaping later and ingathering into barns.
So, too, like the tares, is the American legal system, which though descended in substantial part from the common law of England, boldly deviated away from that law, to avoid the hated antislavery turning of that law, in the 1772 Somerset case , which outlawed slavery on British soil. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_v_Stewart
This turning away has corrupted its field of wheat, and was "an enemy" that sowed in its tares with the wheat of human rights, democracy, and the republican form of governance. All have been tainted since before America's 1789 founding, even before its original July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence.
There, in that sacred oath, the first tares were sown in the Congressional committee's amended "Declaration" which omitted "imposed slavery," as a grievance against, as a basis for separating from the Mother Country, the United Kingdom.
Then it necessarily followed that slavery was incorporated into the Constitution, and into all else that was uniquely American, whether law, treaty, custom, trade, art, education, religion, or promises.
All things were thereby tainted by this original American turning away from freedom to slavery; from its professions of freedom to its hypocritical practices of bias, prejudice and racism, whose prolific infectiousness yet pollutes and proliferates, as I write.
Every societal level is affected, is infected, state and federal; public and private ; religious and secular; business and charity.
Fortunately, right now, the time of the harvest is upon us. Though the tares yet tarry amid the wheat, the reapers, are patiently deracinating it more and more each day, to the glory of God and man. There may yet be a harvest of righteousness for the world!
Monday, May 18, 2015
MAKERS AND BREAKERS
MAKERS AND BREAKERS
Law breakers, treaty breakers, and promise breakers have a long glorified history in American life.
In truth, many of these very same white persons have also, as often been, paradoxically, the principal law makers, treaty makers, and promise makers, truth be known.
Those who make'm, break'm!
Yet, despite having blithely broken their very own sacred, civil, common law, documents, treaties and promises, since 1789, the year of the United States of America's founding, they yet have the gall to hold themselves out as blameless, as as honest, as lawful, moral, and righteous, while hypocritically labeling, excoriating, condemning American non-whites as being lawless, immoral, unrighteous, dishonest, and blameworthy!
They have perfumed the air with high sounding phrases. They have hidden their baleful visages behind beatific creeds. They are forever boasting of their heritage and system of universal rights and human love. But, inwardly they are the ravening wolves that Jesus Christ decried centuries ago; Remus and Romulus' whelp.
http://biblehub.com/matthew/7-15.htm
Of course, life has few absolutes. Even precious minerals like silver, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and gold have a quanta of impurities--or exceptions. Such impurities or exceptions are no less very true of law maker/breakers, treaty makers/breakers, and promise makers/breakers, of all "races."
Therein lies the rub! Which is which? The scriptures teach that bad seed, tares, were secretly sown into the field at night, by "an enemy," while the men were asleep. When the good and bad seed sprouted, servants inquired what should be done, given their admixture? Just pull them up?
The householder explained that they were to leave them alone, until the harvest. Then, he would have the reapers pull the tares up, first, to be burned: thereafter he would have them gather the wheat into his barns. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/…
This simple scriptural lesson is pregnant with penetrating, and bountiful teachings. First, "an enemy" is ever around to destroy, confound, undermine, or dilute your labors. Such you cannot resist because you must "sleep!"
Upon discovering the baleful trespasser's deeds, showing patience and diligence is preferable to acting hastily or precipitately, lest you throw away the good with the bad. Good and bad, i.e., wheat and tares are recognizably different even to non-specialists like servants. However because their root structures become one, that is, entangled during their youth, removing one risks jeopardizing both lives, both wheat and tares.
At harvest, at maturity, their root structures will have become sufficiently disentangled to enable the efficient reapers to discern and to deracinate, to pull up, the subversively trespassing tares, first, for burning, leaving the primordial wheat for reaping later and ingathering into barns.
So, too, like the tares, is the American legal system, which though descended in substantial part from the common law of England, boldly deviated away from that law, to avoid the hated antislavery turning of that law, in the 1772 Somerset case , which outlawed slavery on British soil. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_v_Stewart
This turning away has corrupted its field of wheat, and was "an enemy" that sowed in its tares with the wheat of human rights, democracy, and the republican form of governance. All have been tainted since before America's 1789 founding, even before its original July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence.
There, in that sacred oath, the first tares were sown in the Congressional committee's amended "Declaration" which omitted "imposed slavery," as a grievance against, as a basis for separating from the Mother Country, the United Kingdom.
Then it necessarily followed that slavery was incorporated into the Constitution, and into all else that was uniquely American, whether law, treaty, custom, trade, art, education, religion, or promises.
All things were thereby tainted by this original American turning away from freedom to slavery; from its professions of freedom to its hypocritical practices of bias, prejudice and racism, whose prolific infectiousness yet pollutes and proliferates, as I write.
Every societal level is affected, is infected, state and federal; public and private ; religious and secular; business and charity.
Fortunately, right now, the time of the harvest is upon us. Though the tares yet tarry amid the wheat, the reapers, are patiently deracinating it more and more each day, to the glory of God and man. There may yet be a harvest of righteousness for the world!