THE POLITICS OF GOD - Scriptures and prophets are used to evaluate contemporary conservative and liberal positions - Hardcover

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Robert L. Hamson attended several universities including California Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University where he received his B.E.S., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees. He worked for General Dynamics and Hughes Aircraft as an engineer on cruise missiles. Dr. Hamson presented six technical papers in the field of operations research, authored a book reporting his research using computers to identify authors, and wrote a script for an educational film on the physics of what holds satellites in orbit. The two science and religion essays at the back of this book are composed directly from the personal research and analysis of Dr. Hamson. On the other hand, the 310 pages of politics and religion in this book rest almost entirely on the thousand authoritative references compiled by the author.

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"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things" (Genesis 9:3). "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them" (Genesis 3:21). To contrast God's use of animal, an Animal Rights Advocate says: "Animals are not ours to eat, wear or experiment on."

To defend and glorify adultery in high level government officials, moral people are portrayed as impotent robots who do nothing and have no creative thought. Only immoral people are creative: "We're reaching the point where we're going to wind up with a government by goodie goodies, a government by people who have done nothing in their life except walk the straight and narrow, who have no creative thought." God decries this warped view: "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people" (Isaiah 5:20,25).

Eighteenth Century writers saw the hand of God in giving colonists the land and in establishing their Constitution to benefit future generations: "The finger of God points out a mighty empire to your sons ... a regular American Constitution." "You are assigned by Divine Providence in the appointed order of things, the protectors of unborn ages." Jesus Christ confirmed His meticulous work with the framers in setting up the United States government: "I established the Constitution of this land by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose." In contrast, a Twentieth Century Supreme Court Justice finds inadequate wisdom in the Founding Fathers raised up by God and grades God's work as defective: "Nor do I find the wisdom, foresight and sense of justice exhibited by the framers particularly profound. To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start."

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Medicare and Social Security provide partial medical care and pensions for senior citizens with monies taken from federal taxpayers. It is unconstitutional for the federal government to interfere in these important church-driven personal areas. Americans have not passed any amendment allowing this central control or funding. The required half trillion dollars of taxes drain the middle class worker so he can not follow the long-standing religious imperative to support his own aging parents. Also, federal Social Security benefits are too small by over half because the worker's money does not compound over the worker's life.

"Honor thy father and thy mother" is God's command to working adult children to personally support their parents. This interpretation was obeyed by Jesus Christ, the author of that commandment, as He accepted this obligation to care for His own mother after His stepfather Joseph had died. While Jesus hung from the cross, finished His earthly tasks, and was about to give up His life, He, the firstborn child of Mary, transferred this precious custodial obligation to His beloved apostle John in a most touching verbal contract - His last will and testament - which was immediately set into operation by the trustee John:

"When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home" (John 19:26-27).

These massive federal programs remove the means and perceived need for capable adult children to care for their aging parents. Important senior needs must be met, first, by the seniors themselves, then by their children, and finally by other relatives, friends, churches, and private charities. The federal government is no last resort and has no legal right to intrude in these church-based obligations.

Three major gifts from God declare the good and bad of all federal political views: The first is a general gift - the broad counsel of God to His prophets, primarily in scriptures, typified by the Ten Commandants and by the parable of the laborers. God chose to be sacred the owner's right to control property. "Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?" (Matthew 20:15). To sustain this, God designated theft and coveting as sins.

The second grand political gift of God to the entire world is the United States Constitution. As document in this book, primarily in Chapter 4, Jesus Christ asserted that He preserved America as an inheritance for the colonists, that He inspired Columbus to begin the discovery and colonization, and that He, through miracles, led George Washington to victory over Great Britain. It was Jesus Christ who raised up the Founding Fathers as politically wise men to write the Constitution for the blessing of unborn ages. Then Christ affirmed that anything more or less than constitutional law comes from evil and that the inspired Constitution should be interpreted today in the tradition of those wise Founding Fathers.

The third grand political key document in this book is a Twentieth Century Christian warning that communism is the greatest satanical threat on the earth. Like support of the Constitution, this denunciation of communism is not a one-item standard. It condemns all communism represent: central control and funding of education, universal health care, and federal control of inheritance.

These three grand political standards provide comprehensive criteria to evaluate politicians, platforms, and laws. Good views honor the colonists, the framers, their Constitution, and the greatness of the United States. The bad views defend communists as benevolent reformers and degrade the framers as old fashioned, the Constitution as out of date, the colonists as intruders against good Indians, and the United States military as the most violent.

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After the colonists had removed Britain's rule from their shoulders, they could act according to their own whims, being restrained only to respect the rights of others in areas such as murder, stealing, and adultery. These bounteous rights allowed full use of free agency. However, the God of this land inspired Americans to delegate a few of these rights to a central government. The United States Constitution was the contract they drew up to define these limited functions. The framers gave no authority to the United States Government to fund or control education, health care, housing, welfare, employment, jobs, pensions, political parties, candidates, food or school lunches. These precious rights and critical functions were kept by the people so they could exercise their agency and be accountable to God for their choices at Judgment Day.

The most obvious grand fact that shows the great desirability of being in the United States under the Constitution established by Jesus Christ, and the extreme repulsiveness of living under communism is this: the passion people are showing to enter America and the urgency they exhibit to escape communism.

Throughout recorded religious history God has not been politically neutral. God took sides in the Grand Council in Heaven, in the War in Heaven and in many earthly wars. God took sides with respect to the United States Constitution, Communism and mafia oaths.

To the believer in certain scripture and prophets, Jesus Christ kept America hidden from the world, then He led Columbus to America, brought the pilgrims and many settlers here "out of captivity" from Europe, "raised up" the Founding Fathers and inspired many patriots for the "very purpose" of establishing the United States Constitution, and miraculously brought the Americans victoriously through the Revolutionary War. If ever a nation could be called "Christian" this was it. The United States of American has the "made by Jesus Christ" label all over it.

The plan to limit federal power and expand individual agency: Concerning "the constitutional law of the land ... whatsoever is more or less than this, cometh of evil" - Jesus Christ. The thrust for unconstrained power: "All that progressives ask or desire is permission - in an era when 'development,' 'evolution,' is the scientific word - to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle" - Woodrow Wilson.

The history of the FDR Administration is that they knowingly, but, presumably, just for the Great Depression, violated the Constitution. The crisis ended, but the violations stayed.

On February 4, 1937, to save his New Deal, FDR unveiled bill S.1392 to "pack" the Supreme Court. Universal opposition appeared as "a spontaneous surge of protest on the community level, from American Legion posts, Kiwanians, and women's clubs." "Senate liberals - Borah, Hiram Johnson, and Burton K. Wheller - came down hard on the Court's side." Wheller said, "A liberal cause was never won by stacking a deck of cards, by stuffing a ballot box, or by packing a court." Senator Frederick Van Nuys, D-Indiana protested: "I shall not be a part to breaking down the checks and balances of the Constitution." Representative Samuel B. Pettengill, D-Indiana hit FDR: "A packed jury, a packed court, and a stuffed ballot box are all on the same moral plane. This is more power than a good man should want or a bad man should have."

The tradition of the Founding Fathers is all-important to an effective existence of the Constitution. What was constitutionally legal back then, must continue to be accepted today by the Supreme Court. The extent that interpretation by the Court is not consistent, there is no Constitution at all.

Before the Constitution was written, while it was being written, and for 170 years after is was written the right of adults and children to have prayer in school, at graduations, and generally in public places was a give.

With mean partisanship showing, Hillary Clinton spoke at the National Prayer Luncheon in Washington on February 10, 1997 to say, "I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian." Some suppose that Hillary really meant to say, "You could not be an adulterer and a Christian" as in 1 Corinthians 6:9.

Some believe the Constitution will one day be in great peril and hang by a thread. They are scanning the future to guess when this may happen. These Christians are looking in the wrong time direction. They missed it. Already, the Constitution is substantially not obeyed. A trillion dollars a year, around 70 percent of the federal budget, is spent on unconstitutional programs usurped from the citizens and their churches. The Constitution has not been amended to death. It has simply been ignored, set aside, and violated to a great degree, beginning with FDR's administration. The revisionists were not ignorant of the real meaning of the Constitution. Therefore, many leaders have felt the need to justify their serious deviations by degrading the Founding Fathers as lacking wisdom, foresight, a sense of justice, and being from a horse and buggy world now dead and gone, and for making a constitution that was "defective from the start."

A second part of free agency is the right of each adult to control their own money and property. This is the right to extend an offer of employment or to withhold such an offer according to any criteria of discrimination that the owner may wish to apply. If, by some form of discrimination, workers are not hired, none of their rights have been denied because they never had any right to another's money - until a job contract is agreed upon by both sides. Only after that contact has been made is their a moral claim to the labor that is not slavery, and an equal claim on the wage that is not stealing.