And thanks for your service to our country.

With regards to your response on my blog, my first question would be, are you a Christian? Little point in debating these points if you don't hold the bible as the standard of truth and wisdom. My following arguments contain secular truth to them, but the better arguments is does it conform to God's Law. If not, is it against God's Law....if so.....does God punish those who transgress God's law?

One thing I would like to address is your argument about the fed. You gave no reason for keeping it. As is, the fed has created an economy based on massive debt, and to keep liquidity in the economy to keep it moving, lowering interest rates to very low rates, creating a housing bubble, sub-prime mortgages, and now to bail out these sub-prime lenders, they have to lower the rates, and drop their fiat money from the sky as though there is no free lunch. We will pay (not just in the inflationary sense, but in the depression sense)....the question is when. Rather than rehash all of the arguments, I will recommend you to this free book on line.

Gary North's Book on Honest Money



The next easy one is the department of education which you claim would be throwing out the baby with the bath water....I don't actually believe that you believe that the bureaucracy called the department of education is the "baby".

First biblically, its the *Christian* father's responsibility to teach their children, and not to hand children over to the state for indoctrination. But leaving that aside, education should be purely local, and not of any federal concern.

As AA Hodge, in 1887 wisely pointed out (far before the department of education ever existed):

"I am as sure as I am of Christ's reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen."


The war issue is the most difficult for me to address because it is a weighty matter and should be taken seriously, and not flippantly. There is no doubt that Iraq has become the battleground against extremists, but there is also no doubt we are in Iraq with US troops primarily having enforced UN resolutions, which has invited Muslim extremists out for a party. I also view that it has made us safe at home for the time being.

Unfortunately, I don't believe our troops should ever be used to force UN resolutions. Nor should we ever go to war and depose a regime without declaring war on that regime. and War should be based on reasons that are verified (WMDs was a dud). For these reasons I am primarily against the war in Iraq. Our constitution should be taken seriously.

But with such a militaristic foreign policy we have made ourselves in the long run extremely vulnerable at home. Not to mention the 1.9 Trillion dollar CBO estimate, in which the Iraq war is deficit funded (printing fiat money) Biological weapons can be created more and more cheaply and easily, forest fires can be started all across the nation destroying our resources and endangering lives at enormous costs, dams can be attacked, our borders and ports are not secured. Al Qaeda cells have been and are operating in the US and will bid their time.

Our economy as stated, has left us fragile. Consumer and governmental debt and an economy based on printing money is a dangerous combination.

All of this is basically unbiblical. Debt is never encouraged by God. We should be a nation of lenders, and not borrowers. The indication that we have, in biblical parlance, become the tail and not the head means we are the slaves to the slave masters. Policing the world comes at great cost to the american at home. These costs should be considered...in lives....and economically to our nation. We are godless, we have godless economic policies.....we godless leaders are starting war based on godless reasons. Ever think that God has brought these troubles on us, and we aren't the good boy who has done God's bidding. Pause and consider how God brings prosperity on nations that are obedient. He brings curses on nations such as ours. I am supporting Ron Paul.