Dankdude
Well-Known Member
Why do Americans think democracy is divine? You cannot even hear a speech by the President, his Supreme Court nominees, or hardly any one in his cabinet without them going on and on about spreading democracy throughout the world, particularly in the nations we have invaded.
The United States of America is not and should not be a democracy. Our forefathers bequeathed us a constitutional republic. They greatly feared the tyrannical tendencies of what they called "mob-acracy". Thomas Jefferson stated, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Our forefathers were familiar with the lawless democracy that led France to a senseless revolution where mobs of people took turns lynching their employers and their leaders, including the last fellow who led them on guillotine parade. In a democracy, the majority can abuse the minority, the poor can rob from the rich, the white can persecute the black, and the born can terrorize the unborn, because they can "out-vote" them. In a democracy, popular leaders can usurp their God-ordained limits, violate their oaths, deprive their lesser subjects of life or liberty or property without due process, and hand out tax-subsidies to citizens in exchange for ever-increasing power. The rule by men is an invention of hell, not heaven.
Our government was designed to primarily be a rule by law that is based upon Divine Law, not a rule by men. We were given a system of checks and balances that appealed to divine authority as the basis of the Bill of Rights, as the basis for the limitations of the power of the majorities and those in leadership. The authors of our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution intended for our democratic vote to determine our elected representatives, but our government was not designed to be a democracy. A democracy unrestrained by divine law has just as much potential to create tyranny and terror as Islam.
Do you remember why we originally invaded Iraq? Why, because they had weapons of mass destruction in violation of several UN mandates, of course. We invaded to enforce UN resolutions. (One can only wonder how we can justify invading Iraq to enforce UN resolutions when the UN resolved that we shouldn't invade.) Since no weapons of mass destruction have been discovered, President Bush has abandoned the WMD excuse. Then, it was declared that we were invading Iraq primarily to liberate them from their cruel dictator: we were there to set them free from tyranny! Remember the rape houses, the thousands of Kurds killed at Saddam's hands?
That justification has been abandoned of late because more Iraqis have died as a direct or indirect result of our invasion than Saddam Hussein ever killed in his long dictatorship (even if you just count the collateral damage of our bombing campaigns.) A study published by the Lancet medical journal says the risk of violence for civilians in Iraq is now 58 times higher than before the U.S. invasion. Unofficial estimates of civilian deaths varied from 10,000 to over 37,000, both from collateral damage from our extensive bombing campaigns, and from the insurgency we have indirectly created by our pre-emptive invasion. (See , , or one of several other cites for various estimates of "collateral damage.")
Now, according to President Bush, the primary reason we remain in Iraq is to establish a democracy.
He must think we are stupid.
Where does he get the idea that a democracy is somehow sacred? Where does he get the idea that he can usurp the limits of the Constitution, to which he gave an oath, and order the invasion of a nation without the congressional declaration of war that the Constitution mandates? Where does he get the idea that it is noble to sacrifice thousands of American soldiers to establish a democracy in a country whose people un-coerced probably wouldn't vote for a democracy and certainly wouldn't die for one?
Might doesn't make right. A vote doesn't determine right from wrong. What is the basis of right and wrong? God is the arbiter of right and wrong, and He has given us His revelation in the Holy Bible. What does the Bible have to say about a democracy? In one of the first attempts at a democratic vote in Scripture, the ground opened up under the majority who tried to oust Moses and they were swallowed alive down into the pit of hell (Numbers 16)!
A democratic vote is fine as long as they vote for what is right, but when the democratic consensus prefers to violate God's will, they have voted for something that is unlawful and something that will ultimately bring God's wrath upon them.
Why does a democracy tend to evil? The Scripture says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God: people are sinful and, unrestrained by the law of God, they will vote sinfully. Abominations that God said should be outlawed will be legalized and the law without which men cannot be free will be traded for false religion, government hand-outs, and ultimately tyranny, as a stronger, centralized form of government will be voted "the lesser of two evils" in cities ridden with crime, terror, and corruption. The adventure of self-government and liberty will be traded for the cage of security and a Caesar who thinks he's god.
The United States of America is not and should not be a democracy. Our forefathers bequeathed us a constitutional republic. They greatly feared the tyrannical tendencies of what they called "mob-acracy". Thomas Jefferson stated, "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Our forefathers were familiar with the lawless democracy that led France to a senseless revolution where mobs of people took turns lynching their employers and their leaders, including the last fellow who led them on guillotine parade. In a democracy, the majority can abuse the minority, the poor can rob from the rich, the white can persecute the black, and the born can terrorize the unborn, because they can "out-vote" them. In a democracy, popular leaders can usurp their God-ordained limits, violate their oaths, deprive their lesser subjects of life or liberty or property without due process, and hand out tax-subsidies to citizens in exchange for ever-increasing power. The rule by men is an invention of hell, not heaven.
Our government was designed to primarily be a rule by law that is based upon Divine Law, not a rule by men. We were given a system of checks and balances that appealed to divine authority as the basis of the Bill of Rights, as the basis for the limitations of the power of the majorities and those in leadership. The authors of our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution intended for our democratic vote to determine our elected representatives, but our government was not designed to be a democracy. A democracy unrestrained by divine law has just as much potential to create tyranny and terror as Islam.
Do you remember why we originally invaded Iraq? Why, because they had weapons of mass destruction in violation of several UN mandates, of course. We invaded to enforce UN resolutions. (One can only wonder how we can justify invading Iraq to enforce UN resolutions when the UN resolved that we shouldn't invade.) Since no weapons of mass destruction have been discovered, President Bush has abandoned the WMD excuse. Then, it was declared that we were invading Iraq primarily to liberate them from their cruel dictator: we were there to set them free from tyranny! Remember the rape houses, the thousands of Kurds killed at Saddam's hands?
That justification has been abandoned of late because more Iraqis have died as a direct or indirect result of our invasion than Saddam Hussein ever killed in his long dictatorship (even if you just count the collateral damage of our bombing campaigns.) A study published by the Lancet medical journal says the risk of violence for civilians in Iraq is now 58 times higher than before the U.S. invasion. Unofficial estimates of civilian deaths varied from 10,000 to over 37,000, both from collateral damage from our extensive bombing campaigns, and from the insurgency we have indirectly created by our pre-emptive invasion. (See , , or one of several other cites for various estimates of "collateral damage.")
Now, according to President Bush, the primary reason we remain in Iraq is to establish a democracy.
He must think we are stupid.
Where does he get the idea that a democracy is somehow sacred? Where does he get the idea that he can usurp the limits of the Constitution, to which he gave an oath, and order the invasion of a nation without the congressional declaration of war that the Constitution mandates? Where does he get the idea that it is noble to sacrifice thousands of American soldiers to establish a democracy in a country whose people un-coerced probably wouldn't vote for a democracy and certainly wouldn't die for one?
Might doesn't make right. A vote doesn't determine right from wrong. What is the basis of right and wrong? God is the arbiter of right and wrong, and He has given us His revelation in the Holy Bible. What does the Bible have to say about a democracy? In one of the first attempts at a democratic vote in Scripture, the ground opened up under the majority who tried to oust Moses and they were swallowed alive down into the pit of hell (Numbers 16)!
A democratic vote is fine as long as they vote for what is right, but when the democratic consensus prefers to violate God's will, they have voted for something that is unlawful and something that will ultimately bring God's wrath upon them.
Why does a democracy tend to evil? The Scripture says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God: people are sinful and, unrestrained by the law of God, they will vote sinfully. Abominations that God said should be outlawed will be legalized and the law without which men cannot be free will be traded for false religion, government hand-outs, and ultimately tyranny, as a stronger, centralized form of government will be voted "the lesser of two evils" in cities ridden with crime, terror, and corruption. The adventure of self-government and liberty will be traded for the cage of security and a Caesar who thinks he's god.
