Does this pretty much sum it up?

Dakota · April 22, 2009

I'm having problems with a very liberal teacher who is trying to show us the benefits of Marxism, Socialism and Communism and to think independently of a Christian worldview...at a private Christian university...imagine that! Anyways, here is a paper I wrote on freedom, basically telling him I'm not hoodwinked like the others under his brainwashing. Does this pretty much sum up what is going on? Hope you like it!

Dakota

Dakota W. Case

4/18/2009

WIT 112

Dr. Kevin Cole

Big Government: Like a Monarchy, but with a Congress!

Big Government: exactly what the Pilgrims and Colonists fled

when they sailed across the Atlantic to make a new life for themselves

in the New World during the 1600s and 1700s. What they sought is

directly opposite of what America and her Federal Government has

become today. This is to say, government has too much freedom and the

American people don’t have enough.

America’s secular society has made us into a nation that is too

“politically correct”; too careful to appease certain groups of

people--homosexuals, transsexuals and others who choose to victimize

themselves by leading their perverted lifestyles and wanting to force

it upon an overwhelming majority against such a thing (I’ll probably

get sued under an alleged “hate speech” violation for stating the

facts, that’s how far gone we already are)--and give them favored

status when, according to our Constitution, all men are created equal

(when one group gets special treatment, other groups will want the

same and, when everyone is special, no one will be and we will be back

where we started: morally bankrupt as a whole); too focused on being

like everyone else (popularity, looks etc…) and not the unique

individuals made in God’s image that we are; too careless with our

hard earned money, our financial freedom—which we, and the following

ten generations after us, now owe to the government thanks to poor

management on the part of a liberal congress, not the former President

as all liberals would like you to believe--and too quick to rely on

the government, whom we employ, to solve all our problems. As such,

all we have done is set ourselves up for failure. These are just a few

of the many major problems we have created for ourselves that open the

door for Federal government spending and creating or proposing

legislation such as Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion; the Federal

Assault Weapons Ban, a federal law--now defunct—of the U.S. signed

into law by former President Bill Clinton that included a prohibition

on the sale to civilians of certain semi-automatic so called "assault

weapons" including military-style semiautomatic rifles, derived from

assault rifles but with lesser capabilities; gay marriage, though

currently prohibited at the Federal level in The Defense of Marriage

Act, state legislators are slowly succumbing to liberal brainwashing

and one after another states are legalizing this travesty that

undermines the fundamental principles this nation was founded on.

Taxation is another big issue, depending on one’s income, income

tax alone can range from zero to 35% of your total income; President

Barack Obama would like to see that raised to 40%. If our Founding

Fathers were here they would see that we have come full circle from

taxation without representation to taxation without deliberation in

order to mop up the mess Congress created after being elected in 2006.

While the colonists were oppressed by English tyranny and

eventually threw off the yoke of oppression, they still maintained

their hope and faith in God and enacted it throughout the fledgling

American Republic—which most people mistakenly claim is a Democracy—

government system, as written by the collective authors of Streams of

Civilization:

There can be little doubt that Puritanism, the religion of

the early settlers and the rationale for their very arrival

on American shores, left a lasting legacy which carried on

into the late eighteenth century birth of the nation.

Puritanism emphasized principles which can be seen in the

American political development-voluntary association,

limits on power, a necessity for civic involvement by the

saints, and a careful delineation of the realms of the

church and state. The heart of the Puritan system was the

idea of covenant, initiated by God and concerned both with

individual salvation and the creation of a people (or

society). Puritanism also emphasized the rule of

fundamental laws that harmonized with the Bible.

- Streams of Civilization 2.5

Our nation did not revolt from England because of mere taxation,

however. We sought the freedom to worship God in our own way, whether

Baptist or Methodist, Catholic or Protestant, not under the rule and

dominion of the crown. At the center of the revolution was God and the

principles of the Reformation. Our nation’s leaders were men of God and patriotic countrymen who sought His wisdom and guidance in all things and were not afraid to stand up for what was right. It is time our nation’s men and women did the same and stand up for God and the nation which was originally founded under His guidance. In today’s society, “One nation under God” and “In God we trust”, have become nothing more than religious “dogma” that has become “old”, “outdated” and little more than a ridiculous tradition. And this is understandable if a person does not look through the lens of a Christian worldview, because then the basic moral principles that form the back bone of our nation’s laws and regulations which are based on the moral code God dictated His people to follow doesn’t appear to “apply” to them. Such a code doesn’t make sense to a non-religious person because it differs from their way of thinking. President Obama understands both views and that is why he has declared that we are not a “Christian Nation” to the outrage of many in America. If one thinks along those same lines, abortion, homosexuality and gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research and the “humane” and “ethical” euthanasia of the terminally ill and elderly seem appropriate and quite acceptable. Welcome to the Nazi/Fascist/Socialist/Communist dictator way of thinking; the end justifies the means. Francis A. Schaeffer, author of How Should We Then Live?, states,

As we consider the coming of an elite, an authoritarian state, to fill the vacuum left by the loss of Christian principles, we must not think naively of the models of Stalin and Hitler. We must think rather of a manipulative authoritarian government. Modern governments have forms of manipulation at their disposal which the world has never known before.

- Francis A. Schaefer, How Should We Then Live? Ch. 12 Sound familiar? Such manipulation can be seen not only in the current administration, but in past elections such as Johnson vs. Goldwater where LBJ was able to twist the media to his whims; of course, he learned from the best having been Vice President to President Kennedy before his assassination. I think it best to end with an excerpt from Sounding Forth the Trumpet, by authors Peter Marshall and David Manuel, recounting the assault on Mexico City during the Mexican-American War. The following is a quote by Captain Kirby Smith,

Fatal credulity! How awful are its consequences to us…and now, alas, we have all our fighting to do all over again.

- Peter Marshall and David Manuel, Sounding Forth the Trumpet Chapter 21 If we don’t stand up for our rapidly disappearing freedoms and take a stand against the Federal Government, we will have lost all our

predecessors fought so hard for. Do you think they will appreciate

that? I didn’t think so either.

Hope this helps a little bit.

Edited April 22, 2009 by Dakota

Gator · April 22, 2009

I don't know, I can't read it!!!!

hoythunter37 · April 22, 2009

WOW that was a pretty good paper man. To be honest you may have been a little too honest with your teacher. Don’t get me wrong I am all about voicing opinions and everything. But with the way you said your teacher was I hope he doesn’t go against you and tear up your paper. I hope he can read a different opinion and be fine with it, but I know with some of my teachers they can be a little overwhelmed with their opinions and not consider yours. If ya know what I mean. And Awesome paper man. Sounds like you are right on track bud!!

wtnhunt · April 22, 2009

Looks kind of long for a summation. Going to have to come back and read that later on Dakota.

Texan_Til_I_Die · April 22, 2009

I foresee an F in your future young man. Not because the paper is poorly written, but because the content will be anathema to a liberal professor.

Jorden · April 22, 2009

It is a really good paper Dakota, but like the others said your teacher may not like it. If it were me, I would turn it in as is. You need to stand up for what you believe in and let your voice be heard.

gzilla45 · April 22, 2009

I'll give ya an A for it. It's a great paper and you should be proud that you voiced your opinion even though your professor probably will disagree. Be proud of the fact that we live in a country where you can voice a different opinion. If the professor does give you a bad grade because he doesn't agree with it, so what. It took a lot of character to go against him so professionally and that is more important in life than any grade he'll give you.

Hoosierbuck · April 22, 2009

Okay-the points are good, but your writing style is really hard to follow-too many of these-followed by more of this; and one of those thrown in. Try to write in sentences and paragraphs. Try to be succinct, and make one point in a sentence or two, then move one and do it again with a new point. Generally, rhetorical questions are not well-favored, either.

I don't mean to try to come off snotty or put you down, but seriously...it's hard to read it. It is a college paper and not a blog entry. I had to change my writing style at one point in my schooling, also, so I can empathize with you.

Apply those thoughts to this "sentence":