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Originally Posted by psholtz

I haven't thought about it.

The property qualification isn't bad.

I'd rather like to start enforcing again, if only b/c it would disqualify about 99.999% of the American electorate from participating in elections, owing to the fact that they don't "own" their property: they are merely renting from the King; either in the form of a mortgage, or at best in the form of ad valorem taxes due semi-annually on their piece of the King's estate (i.e., real estate, from the French/Spanish "royal" estate).

If 99.999% of the American electorate were suddenly barred from what they've been conditioned to believe is their Holy Grail of freedom: voting once every four years for the lesser of two evils, then they might suddenly catch a cluebrick as to what's wrong w/ the nation and do something about it.

But the gremlins in Washington are more clever than that.

Better to trick the slaves into thinking and believing that they're "free"..


Again, like I said in my quote above, I don't necessarily equate democracy or voting w/ freedom.

I equate freedom w/ an understanding of and obedience to God's Divine Law. The "royal law" (James 2:8) or the "law of liberty" (James 2:12) so to speak. Out of this flows the capacity to reign over and control the termites (otherwise known as government bureau-rats) that would otherwise be the proximate cause of any curtailment to your liberty that you might experience.

Christians reign upon this Earth as Kings (1 Peter 2:4-9), and the only Sovereign or Power to which we must answer is the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. Democracy slowly starts to seem like it's off point and out of context, when you start to look at the world more in that light.

The Communist nations during the Cold War were extremely, extremely keen on forcing their populations to "vote" at every election. It was required by law. If you failed to vote, you'd wind up in prison. It happened to members of my family; the prison part, that is.. (some branches of my family descend from Eastern Europe).

Did that mean anything?

Did they have freedom?

Democracy is indispensible to Communism, remember, so said Lenin.

You've been raised in a Communist nation (the United States), and so have I, and we've been indoctrinated to believe that "democracy" is indispensibe to "freedom". Indeed, nothing can be further from the truth, and even people like James Madison understood this as can be gleaned from Federalist #10 and #14.

Are there "democracies" to be found in Scripture?

It IS a civil infraction not to vote in Australia! LOL