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14<h1 align="center"><i><font color="green"><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree</b></font></i></h1>
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17<dl><dt><font color="#804000"><strong>Supporting:</strong></font> love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, sobriety</dt><dt><font color="#804000"><strong>Opposing</strong></font>: Secularism, Humanism, Anti-Family Sex, Hedonism, Autonomy, Totalitarianism, and Mass Death</dt></dl>
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24      <td width="100%">The name &quot;<font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree</b></i></font>&quot; comes from the fourth chapter of the prophet Micah, and is set forth <a href="#Micah-audio">here</a>. You've probably heard Micah's words before -- we beat our &quot;<b>swords into plowshares</b>&quot; and everyone dwells safely under their own &quot;<font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree.</b></i></font>&quot;&nbsp;<p><a href="http://vftonline.org/VFTINC/history/index.htm">America's Founding Fathers</a> were familiar with this vision: &quot;<font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree</b></i></font>&quot; is the <a href="http://VFTonline.org/" worldview.htm">worldview</a> that made America &quot;the greatest nation on God's green earth.&quot;</p></td>
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33      <td width="100%">George Washington's Diaries are <a href="http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0010/gwdiary.html">available online at the Library of Congress</a>. That website introduces those writings with these words:
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39                  <td bgcolor="#F2FFF2">No theme appears more frequently in the writings of Washington than his love for his land. The diaries are a monument to that concern. In his letters he referred often, as an expression of this devotion and its resulting contentment, to an Old Testament passage. After the Revolution, when he had returned to Mount Vernon, he wrote the Marquis de Lafayette on Feb. 1, 1784: &quot;At length my Dear Marquis I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac, &amp; under the shadow of <b><i><font color="#008000">my own Vine &amp; my own Fig-tree</font></i></b>.&quot; This phrase occurs at least 11 times in Washington's letters. &quot;<b>And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under <font color="#008000">his vine and under his fig
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59                                  <td width="100%"><p align="center"><img border="0" src="http://The95DaysofChristmas.com/images/www.vahistorical.org/ov/ferris2.jpg" alt="&quot;Under My Own Vine and Fig Tree, 1798&quot; by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art, Virginia Historical Society" width="240" height="358"><br><font size="2"><i><b>Under&nbsp;My&nbsp;Own&nbsp;<font color="#008000">Vine&nbsp;and&nbsp;Fig&nbsp;Tree</font>,&nbsp;1798</b></i><br></font><font size="1">Jean Leon Gerome Ferris<br>Virginia Historical Society<br>Lora Robins Collection of Virginia Art</font></p></td>
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72          <a href="http://vftonline.org/VFTINC/history/index.htm">Many other American Founders</a> wrote of this ideal. &quot;<font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree</b></i></font>&quot; is the original &quot;American Dream.&quot;<br><br>The phrase occurs <a href="http://www.vftonline.org/VFTINC/home/verses.htm">a number of times</a> in Scripture. These references are visual reminders of <a href="http://VineandFigTree.net/yasha.htm">the Hebrew word</a> for <i><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/salvation.htm" salvation.htm">salvation</a></i>, which means<dd>• peace,<dd>• wholeness,<dd>• health,<dd>• welfare, and<dd>• private property free from pirates and princes.<dt>When today's Americans hear the word &quot;salvation,&quot; they usually think about going to heaven
73            when they die. When the writers of the Bible used the word &quot;<a href="http://VFTonline.org/" yasha.htm">salvation</a>,&quot;
73 they wanted you to be thinking about dwelling safely under your own <i><b><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></b></i> during this life -- <a href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/definitions/salvation_holistic.htm">much more often</a> than they wanted you to be thinking about what you'll be doing in the afterlife.</dt></dl>
74        <p>The best place to see the <i><b><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree </font></b></i>ideal is in the book of Micah.</td>
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77      <td width="100%">&nbsp;Let's look at Micah's prophecy (on the left) and ask a few questions (on the right):</td>
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86      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font color="#0000a0"><strong>And <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Predestination">it will come about</a> in <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#lastdays">the last days</a><br>That the <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#mountain">mountain</a> of the <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#House_Lord">House of the L<font size="2">ORD</font></a><br><a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Kingdom">Will be established</a> as the chief of the mountains<br>And it will be raised above the <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Hills">hills</a></strong></font></td>
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88      <td valign="top" align="left" width="285" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font color="#008000"><b>Are we in the &quot;last days?&quot;</b><p><b><font color="#008000">When did this establishment take place?</b></font></font></td>
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91      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410"><font color="#0000a0"><strong>And <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Peoples">the peoples</a> will <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#stream">stream</a> to it.<br>And many <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Nations">nations</a> will come and say,<br>&quot;Come, let us go up to the <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#mountain">mountain of the L<font size="2">ORD</font></a><br>And to the <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#House_Lord">House</a> of the God of Jacob,</strong></font></td>
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93      <td valign="middle" align="left" width="285"><font color="#008000"><b>Is Christianity doomed to minority status throughout history? Hasn't Christianity been growing since the first century?</b></font></td>
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96      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font color="#0000a0"><strong>That He may teach us about His<a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Law"> ways</a><br>And that we may walk in His <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Law">paths.</a>&quot;<br>For from <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#House_Lord">Zion</a> will go forth the <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Law">Law</a><br>Even <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Law">the Word</a> of the L<font size="2">ORD</font> from <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#House_Lord">Jerusalem</a>.</strong></font></td>
97      <td valign="middle" align="center" width="10" bgcolor="#F2FFF2">&nbsp;</td>
98      <td valign="middle" align="left" width="285" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font color="#008000"><b>What should be the Christian's attitude toward the Law? Isn't every Word of a &quot;Lord&quot; &quot;Law?&quot;</b></font></td>
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101      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410"><font color="#0000a0"><strong><a name="Micah~">And</a> He will <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Judge">judge</a> between many peoples<br>And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.<br>Then they will hammer their<br><a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Plowshares">swords into plowshares</a><br>And their spears into pruning hooks;<br>Nation will not lift up <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Sword">sword</a> against nation<br>And never again will they <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Train">train</a> for war.</strong></font></td>
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103      <td valign="middle" align="left" width="285"><font color="#008000"><b>Are we commanded to beat our swords into plowshares <i>today</i>? Or do we wait for the Second Coming?<br><br>Are Christians &quot;pacifists?&quot;</b></font></td>
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106      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font color="#0000a0"><strong>And each of them will sit under <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Property">his</a></strong></font></td>
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108      <td valign="middle" align="left" width="285" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font color="#008000"><b>What about <i>private property</i>?</b></font></td>
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111      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410"><strong><i><font size="4"><a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Vine"><font color="#008000">Vine</font></a><font color="#008000"> </font><font color="#008040">and</font></font></i><font color="#008040"> </font><font color="#0000a0">under </font><font color="#008000"><a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Patriarchy">his</a>&nbsp; </font><i><font size="4"><font color="#008000">f</font><font color="#008040">ig tree</font></font></i><font color="#008040">,</font><font color="#0000a0"><br>With no one to make them <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Fear">afraid.</a><br>For the L<font size="2">ORD</font> of hosts has spoken.</font></strong></td>
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113      <td valign="middle" align="left" width="285"><font color="#008000"><b>What about <i>technology</i>? What about the military? What is it that really brings &quot;security?&quot;</b></font></td>
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116      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font color="#0000a0"><strong><a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Peers">Though all</a> the peoples walk<br>Each in the name of his god,<br>As for us, <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Community">we will walk</a><br>In <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Authority">the Name</a> of the L<font size="2">ORD</font> our God<br><a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Eternity">forever and ever</a>.</strong></font></td>
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118      <td valign="middle" align="left" width="285" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><b><font color="#008000">What if all the politicians, university professors, TV commentators, bloggers, newspaper editors, rock stars, scientists, CEO's, athletes, authors, and think-tanks repudiate the </font><i><font color="#808000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i><font color="#008000"> vision and tell you not to believe it?</font></b></td>
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121      <td valign="top" align="right" width="410"><font color="#0000a0"><strong>In that day, saith the L<font size="2">ORD</font>,<br>will I assemble <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#weak">her that halteth</a>,<br>and I will gather her that <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#illegal">is driven out</a>,<br>and her that <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#punish">I have afflicted</a>;<br>And I will make her that halted <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#remnant">a remnant</a>,<br>and her that was cast far off <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#newnation">a strong nation</a>:<br>and the L<font size="2">ORD</font> shall reign over them in <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#mountain">mount
122        Zion</a><br>from henceforth, <a href="http://VFTonline.org/VFTINC/home/vftfaq.htm#Eternity">even for ever</a>.</strong></font></td>
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124      <td valign="middle" align="left" width="285"><font color="#008000"><b>Should we strive to be on top, or to help those on the bottom? Is God on the side of those who have accomplished much by their own power and initiative, or is He on the side of those who are willing to be used by God to accomplish much to His Glory?</b></font></td>
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170      <li>Our number-two weapon is <a href="http://vftonline.org/xmaspiracy/what_to_do.htm">personal
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172      <li>Our number-three weapon is political vigilance and <a href="http://vftonline.org/TestOath/04parable.htm">litigation</a>,
173        which results from standing against statism and <a href="http://vftonline.org/TestOath/c_deism.htm">ceremonial
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175      <li>Our number-<em>zero</em> weapon is <a href="http://VFTonline.org/DeathRow/index.htm">public stoning</a>
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195      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#DDFECD" align="center"><font size="4"><b><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/VFT.htm">Micah's Prophecy</a> </b>(<a name="Micah">Micah</a> 4:1-7)<br><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/00_passge-and-history.mp3">audio</a></font></td>
196      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#DDFECD" align="center"><font size="4"><b>Archetypes</b></font></td>
197      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#DDFECD" align="center"><font size="4"><b>Controversy</b></font></td>
198      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#DDFECD" align="center"><font size="4"><b>Comfort</b></font></td>
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201      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#DDF5FF"><font size="5"><b>1</b></font></td>
202      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#DDF5FF"><b>And it will come about in the last days<br>[For the L<font size="2">ORD</font> of hosts has spoken.]<br>That the mountain of the House of the L<font size="2">ORD</font><br>Will&nbsp;be&nbsp;established&nbsp;as&nbsp;the&nbsp;chief&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;mountains<br>And it will be raised above the hills</b>
203        <ul>
204          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTINC/home/verses.htm"><font size="2">Biblical References</font></a></li>
205          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTINC/history"><font size="2">American References</font></a></li>
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210          <li><b>Sovereignty</b></li>
211          <li>Authority</li>
212          <li>Victory</li>
213          <li>Power</li>
214          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/definitions/kingdom.htm">Kingdom</a></li>
215          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTprayer/heaven/kicking.htm">Heaven on Earth</a></li>
216          <li>Heaven Now</li>
217          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/Directory/ChristmasConspiracy.htm">Christmas</a>&nbsp;vs.&nbsp;<a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTprayer/heaven/rapture.htm">Rapture</a></li>
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221        <dl><dt><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/predestination">Predestination</a></dt><dd>vs. &quot;Free Will&quot;</dd></dl>
222        <dl><dt>Chose&nbsp;birth?</dt><dt>• Nobody used &quot;free will&quot; to come into existence</dt><dt>• Real issue: The nature of the Creator | Person or Mud</dt></dl>
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225        <dl><dt><a target="_blank" href="http://kevinforcongress.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-birthday-john-calvin.html">Calvinism</a></dt><dt>&quot;Free Will&quot; = <i>imago dei</i> | Image of God<br>&nbsp;• <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/reason.htm">reason</a><br>&nbsp;• planning for future<br>&nbsp;• symphonies</dt></dl>
226        <dl><dt><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/religion/providence.htm">Providence</a></dt><dt>Protection is an act of love</dt><dd>Prayer&nbsp; = anti-deism</dd></dl>
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233      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#DDF5FF">&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://95days.blogspot.com/2008/11/thesis-85-last-days-of-old-covenant.html">Last Days</a>&quot;<p>V&amp;FT &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://thebeginningtimes.blogspot.com/2010/07/dispensational-defeatism.html">impossible even for God</a>.&quot;</p></td>
234      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#DDF5FF">Predestinated&nbsp;tribulation?<br>No. <b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b></td>
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238      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFECF5"><b>And the peoples will stream to it.<br>And many nations will come and say,<br>&quot;Come, let us go up to the mountain of the L<font size="2">ORD</font><br>And to the House of the God of Jacob,</b></td>
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241          <li><b><a target="_blank" href="http://ChristianGlobalism.com">Globalism</a></b></li>
242          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/definitions/catholicism.htm">Catholicism</a>, not Rome-ism</li>
243          <li>Planetary redemption</li>
244          <li>
244End of <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/XianAnarch/humanism/DarwinRacism.htm">racism</a></li>
245          <li>End of nationalism</li>
246          <li>&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/optimillennialism.htm">Optimillennialism</a>&quot;</li>
247          <li><b>Confidence</b> in the prospects of human progress toward a Christian world.</li>
248        </ul>
249        <p align="center"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/02.mp3">Audio</a></td>
250      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFECF5"><a target="_blank" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=F6k8AAAAYAAJ&amp;lpg=PA415&amp;ots=qeL3azb6-P&amp;dq=nave's%20topical%20bible%20%22prophecies%20of%20the%20conversion%20of%22%20gentiles%20all%20families%20of%20the%20earth%20be%20blessed.&amp;pg=PA415#v=onepage&amp;q=%22prophecies%20of%20the%20conversion%20of%22&amp;f=false">Conversion of the Gentiles</a><p><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/true_religion.htm">One religion</a> is superior to <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/false-religion.htm">the others</a></p><p>One has caught our attention: jihadism</p><p>blow-up vs. convert</td>
251      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFECF5">Peace is possible<br>Peace is inevitable</td>
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254      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFED9"><font size="5"><b>3</b></font></td>
255      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFED9"><b>That He may teach us about His ways<br>And that we may walk in His paths.&quot;<br>For from Zion will go forth the Law<br>Even the Word of the L<font size="2">ORD</font> from Jerusalem.<br>And He will judge between many peoples<br>And render decisions for mighty, distant nations.</b></td>
256      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFED9">
257        <ul>
258          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/bible.htm">The Bible</a>: The Word of God</li>
259          <li><b><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/theonomy.htm">Law-Word</a></b></li>
260          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTINC/theonomy/worshlaw.htm">Worship&nbsp;the&nbsp;Word</a></li>
261          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://theonomy.net/">Theonomy</a></li>
262          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://JustificationbyAllegiance.com">Justification&nbsp;by&nbsp;Allegiance</a></li>
263          <li><i>Christian Reconstruction</i>:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/theonomy.htm">Application of God's Law</a> to Nations/<a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/theocracy.htm">Governments</a></li>
264          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/character">Character</a></li>
265        </ul>
266        <p align="center"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/03.mp3">Audio</a></td>
267      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFED9">• The God who gave you life deserves your respect<br>• <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTINC/theonomy/omni_law.htm">Every Word</a> this God speaks deserves your attention/obedience<br>• Bible is not just for &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/private.htm">private</a>&quot; religion, &quot;down in your heart&quot;<br>• Also for public policy<br>• <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/textbook.htm">Textbook</a> for every area</td>
268      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFED9">When Americans learned <a href="http://HowToBecomeAChristianAnarchist.com/index.htm#Education">the Bible<br>in public schools</a> (and public schools<a href="http://KevinCraig.us/bible-education.htm"><br>were Bible schools</a>), America was the<br>most prosperous, most admired nation on earth.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now U.S. exports weapons and pornography.<p><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/religion/nature.htm">Laws of Nature and of Nature's God</a>.</p><p>&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/judgment.htm">judgmental</a>&quot; vs. Hitler</td>
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271      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFE9D5"><font size="5"><b>4</b></font></td>
272      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFE9D5">[And each of them will sit under his<br><b><i><font color="#008000">Vine</font></i></b> and under his <b><i><font color="#008000">fig tree</font></i></b>,]</td>
273      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFE9D5">
274        <ul>
275          <li><b>Family</b></li>
276          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/definitions/patriarchy.htm">Patriarchy</a></li>
277          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/self-government.htm">Self-Government</a></li>
278          <li>&quot;Economics&quot; = &quot;family government</li>
279        </ul>
280        <p align="center"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/04-family.mp3">Audio</a></td>
281      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFE9D5"><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/homosexuality.htm">Male + Female</a><br><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/family.htm">Father + mother</a><p>Family = &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://chalcedon.edu/research/articles/the-promise-of-life/">undemocratic</a>&quot;</td>
282      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFE9D5">When families are functional, the State is unnecessary;<br>Archism is <a target="_blank" href="http://95days.blogspot.com/2008/11/thesis-91-unconverted-in-millennium.html">suppressed</a><p>Adams: mothers:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/religion/morality.htm">religion + morality</a></td>
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285      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#E8EEFD"><font size="5"><b>5</b></font></td>
286      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#E8EEFD"><b>
286Then they will hammer their<br>swords into plowshares<br>And their spears into pruning hooks;<br>Nation will not lift up sword against nation<br>And never again will they train for war.</b><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/6th-murder.htm">Thou shalt not kill</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/8th-steal.htm">Thou shalt not steal</a></p></td>
287      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#E8EEFD">
288        <ul>
289          <li><b><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/peace.htm">Peace</a></b></li>
290          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/swords.htm">Swords&nbsp;into&nbsp;Plowshares</a></li>
291          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/standing-armies.htm">Standing Armies</a></li>
292          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/government.htm">Government = force</a></li>
293          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/zap.htm">Non-Aggression</a></li>
294          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/vengeance.htm">No&nbsp;retaliatory&nbsp;force</a></li>
295          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/capitalism.htm">Capitalism</a>: The Economics of Peace</li>
296          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://IAmNotAnARCHIST.us">Non-Archism</a></li>
297        </ul>
298        <p align="center"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/05-peace.mp3">Audio</a></td>
299      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#E8EEFD">
300        <dl><dt>Pacifism = &quot;criminals will take over&quot;</dt><dd>&nbsp;</dd><dt><font size="2">really? More people will die under pacifism than under archism?<br>More money will be <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/taxation.htm">confiscated</a> under pacifism than under <font color="#FF0000"><b>archists</b></font>?</font></dt></dl>
301        <p><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/defense-slavery.htm">Slavery is an inescapable concept</a>.</td>
302      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#E8EEFD">Myth:
303        <ul>
304          <li>OT = violence, slavery</li>
305          <li>Jesus = irrelevant utopian hippie; not<br>&quot;practical&quot; or &quot;realistic.&quot;</li>
306        </ul>
307        <p>Fact:</p>
308        <ul>
309          <li>Bible = V&amp;FT<br><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/utopia.htm">utopia</a></li>
310        </ul>
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314      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><font size="5"><b>6</b></font></td>
315      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#F2FFF2"><b>And each of them will sit under his<br><i><font color="#008000">Vine</font></i> and under his <i><font color="#008000">Fig Tree</font></i>,<br>With no one to make them afraid.<br>For the L<font size="2">ORD</font> of hosts has spoken.</b></td>
316      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#F2FFF2">
317        <ul>
318          <li><b><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/xmaspiracy/6">Garden</a></b></li>
319          <li>Eden</li>
320          <li>Land</li>
321          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/property.htm">Property</a></li>
322          <li>30,000 verses or John 3:16</li>
323        </ul>
324        <p align="center"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/06-garden.mp3">Audio</a></td>
325      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#F2FFF2">Agrarianism vs. technology<p><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/environmentalism.htm">Environmentalism</a></td>
326      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#F2FFF2">Garden of Eden / City of God<p>Wilderness vs. Garden</p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/pockets.htm">&quot;False weights and Measures.&quot;</a></td>
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329      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF5E1"><font size="5"><b>7</b></font></td>
330      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF5E1"><b>Though all the peoples walk<br>Each in the name of his god,<br>As for us, we will walk<br>In the Name of the L<font size="2">ORD</font> our God<br>forever and ever.<br>In&nbsp;that&nbsp;day,&nbsp;saith&nbsp;the&nbsp;L<font size="2">ORD</font>,&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; will&nbsp;I&nbsp;assemble&nbsp;her&nbsp;that&nbsp;halteth,<br>and I will gather her that is driven out,<br>and her that I have afflicted;<br>And I will make her that halted a remnant,<br>and her that was cast far off a strong nation:<br>and&nbsp;the&nbsp;L<font size="2">ORD</font>&nbsp;shall&nbsp;reign&nbsp;over&nbsp;them&nbsp;in&nbsp;mount&nbsp;Zion<br>from henceforth, even for ever.</b></td>
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332        <ul>
333          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/XianAnarch/humanism/evol_genocide.htm">Darwinism</a> vs. The Weak</li>
334          <li>The Remnant</li>
335          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://95days.blogspot.com/2008/11/thesis-8-patriarchy-and-extended-family.html">Extended&nbsp;
335Home</a></li>
336          <li><b><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/xmaspiracy/7/7_arch.htm">Community</a>: <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTprayer/heaven/bereans.htm">Bereans</a> vs. Fox News</b></li>
337          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/hospitality.htm">Hospitality</a> vs. <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/xenophobia.htm">xenophobia</a></li>
338          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/service.htm">Service</a></li>
339          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/king.htm">Works of Mercy</a> audio below</li>
340          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/society.htm">Society vs. &quot;State&quot;</a></li>
341          <li>Capitalism vs. &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://www.quoteid.com/George_Reisman.html">Law of the Jungle</a>&quot;</li>
342          <li>Election&nbsp;by&nbsp;Grace</li>
343        </ul>
344        <p align="center"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/07.mp3">Audio</a></td>
345      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF5E1">social darwinism<p><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/immigration.htm">immigration</a> vs. &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/immigration13.htm">enumerated powers</a>.&quot;</td>
346      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF5E1">works of mercy vs. focus on &quot;winners,&quot; celebrities, power-brokers</td>
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349      <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF0FA">&nbsp;</td>
350      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFF0FA">&quot;Iron Sharpens Iron&quot;</td>
351      <td valign="middle" bgcolor="#FFF0FA"><p align="center"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/audio/CEOMastery/08-controversy.mp3">Audio</a></p></td>
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353        <dl><dt>Purpose is not to have a fight or<br>shout-over like Fox News</dt><dt>&nbsp;</dt><dt>Don't sign up if you just want to tell us we're wrong.</dt></dl>
354        <p><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTprayer/heaven/bereans.htm">Bereans</a>, search scriptures</p><p>&quot;I'll have to think about this&quot;</p><p>&quot;This is what I've always been looking for&quot;</td>
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360<h1 align="center">How a &nbsp;<font face="Times roman"><b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b></font>&nbsp;World &quot;Really&quot; Works</h1>
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363    <td width="100%"><p>Most people will describe the &quot;<font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;" face="Times roman"><b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b>&quot; vision as &quot;impractical,&quot; &quot;<a href="http://KevinCraig.us/utopia.htm">utopian</a>&quot; and &quot;unrealistic.&quot; Probably everyone in 2015 would describe those on board the Mayflower, leaving the Netherlands in 1620 in a rickety old boat (by today's standards) headed across the angry Atlantic Ocean for &quot;the New World&quot; as nut-case religious &quot;<a href="http://KevinCraig.us/extremism.htm">extremists</a>.&quot; But their &quot;<a href="http://KevinCraig.us/cityhill.htm">City upon a Hill</a>&quot; eventually worked. Better than anything in human history.</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">In
364      the last 50 years, however, the United States government has killed, crippled, or made homeless tens of millions of innocent non-combatant civilians in an attempt to impose &quot;secular&quot; (atheistic) &quot;democracy&quot; (corporate fascism) on the world. During the last 100 years, &quot;secular&quot; governments have killed an average of 10,000 born people each and every single day of the century. (The figure does not include &quot;legal&quot; killings of <i>unborn</i> people, which now take place 135,000 times a day around the world.)</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">But government-approved, university-trained, media-whitewashed <b><font color="#FF0000">mass death</font></b> is &quot;responsible,&quot; &quot;respectable,&quot;
365      &quot;practical,&quot; and &quot;realistic,&quot;</font></p><p><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">On <a href="http://IamNotAnArchist.us">this page</a> is described how </font><font face="Times roman">the &quot;<font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;" face="Times roman"><b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b>&quot; vision could actually be implemented in &quot;the real world.&quot; [<a href="#Note">note</a>] Here is an excerpt:</font></font></p></td>
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382                        <td width="100%"><a href="http://iamnotanarchist.us/audio/1-5.mp3" title="Five Points of Contrast">Click&nbsp;to&nbsp;Listen</a></td>
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396<h3><a name="Q.4">Q.4</a>: What are you promoting in place of &quot;<font color="#FF0000">archism</font>?&quot;</h3>
397<p><font size="4"><b>A: <i><font color="#800080">Liberty Under God</font></i></b>.</font></p>
398<hr>
399<p align="center"><b><font size="7"><i><font color="#FF0000">Liberty</font> <font color="#000080">Under God<br></font></i></font><font size="6"><font color="#800000">vs.</font><font color="#000080"><br></font><font face="Courier New">“Security”</font></font><font face="Courier New" size="7"><span style="letter-spacing: -6pt"> </span></font><font size="6" face="Courier New">Under <font color="#FF0000">Archists</font></font></b>
400<hr>
401<table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">
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403    <td width="50%" valign="top" bgcolor="#F2FFF2">A <b><font color="#008000">Christian</font></b> <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/worldview.htm">worldview</a>:
404      <ol>
405        <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/zap.htm">zero-aggression policy</a><br>rely on <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/violence.htm">persuasion</a>, not force, coercion, and threats of violence<br><font size="2">[<a href="#No1">learn more</a>]</font></li>
406      </ol>
407    </td>
408    <td width="50%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF0FA"><font size="4">The <font color="#FF0000"><b>Archist</b></font>:</font>
409      <ol>
410        <li><font size="4">initiates force against others</font></li>
411      </ol>
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415    <td width="50%" valign="top" bgcolor="#F2FFF2">
416      <ol>
417        <li value="2">&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/pacifism.htm">turn the other cheek</a>,&quot;<br>not <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/vengeance.htm">vengeance</a>; <font size="1">(<a target="_blank" href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/6-7.htm">1 Corinthians 6:7</a>)</font><br>I'd rather be a martyr than a <a target="_blank" href="http://WouldJesusCelebrateIndependenceDay.com">revolutionary<br></a><font size="2">[<a href="#No2">more</a>]</font></li>
418      </ol>
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420    <td width="50%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF0FA">
421      <ol>
422        <li value="2"><font size="4">engages in punitive retaliatory vengeance</font></li>
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428      <ol>
429        <li value="3">respects <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/property.htm">private property</a>,&nbsp; no <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/8th-steal.htm">theft<br></a><font size="2">[<a href="#No3">more</a>]</font></li>
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434        <li value="3"><font size="4">does not respect others' rights to <b>private property</b></font></li>
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441        <li value="4">&quot;Let all things be done <b>decently</b> and in <b>order</b>&quot; <font size="1">(<a target="_blank" href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/14-40.htm">1 Corinthians 14:40</a>)<br></font>Free Market Institutions of Systematic Reconciliation/Restitution<br><font size="2">[<a href="#No4">more</a>]</font></li>
442      </ol>
443    </td>
444    <td width="50%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF0FA">
445      <ol>
446        <li value="4"><font size="4">creates <b>disorder</b>, <a target="_blank" href="http://mises.org/document/2714/">chaos</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm">instability</a>, riots -- violent overthrow of competing <b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b>;</font></li>
447      </ol>
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452      <ol>
453        <li value="5">The <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/swords.htm">peaceful</a> &quot;<b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b>&quot; <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/VFT.htm">society<br></a>&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/religion/nature.htm">The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God</a>&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/VFT.htm"><br></a><font size="2">[<a href="#No5">more</a>]</font></li>
454      </ol>
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456    <td width="50%" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFF0FA">
457      <ol>
458        <li value="5"><font size="4">promotes <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/humanism.htm">the religion of Secular Humanism</a>: &quot;every man his own god.&quot;<br>mon<b><font color="#FF0000">archy</font></b>, olig<font color="#FF0000"><b>archy</b></font>, <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/socialism.htm">socialism</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/fascism.htm">fascism</a>, &quot;the dictatorship of the proletariat,&quot; &quot;
458<a href="http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/what-is-crony-capitalism/">crony capitalism</a>,&quot; <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/democracy.htm">democracy</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/allegiance.htm">republicanism</a>, etc.<br>&quot;The <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/statism.htm" target="_blank">State
459          is god</a> walking on the earth&quot; -- </font><a href="http://www.quebecoislibre.org/05/051115-11.htm" target="_blank"><font size="2">Georg W.F. Hegel</font></a><font size="4"></li>
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464<p><font size="4"><b>In a <a name="my position">nutshell</a>:</b></font></p><p align="center"><b><font size="7"><font color="#FF0000">Liberty</font> <font color="#000080">Under God</font></font></b></p><p align="center"><b><i><font size="5"><font color="#000080">Liberty </font><font color="#ff0000">Under God</font></font></i></b><font size="4"> is the philosophy that made America<br>the most <b>prosperous</b> and most <b>admired</b> nation in history.<br>America is now <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/bankrupt.htm"><b>bankrupt</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/admired.htm"><b>despised</b></a> even by former admirers<br>because we have abandoned <b><i><font color="#000080">Liberty </font><font color="#ff0000">Under God</font></i></b><br>in
465favor of &quot;Security Under Man&quot;</font></p>
466<dl><dt><font size="4">By &quot;<b><font color="#FF3300">Liberty</font>&quot;&nbsp;</b>I mean</font></dt><dd><font size="4"><i><b>Freedom from <font color="#FF0000">Archists</font></b></i></font>&nbsp; (burglars, &quot;the Red Coats,&quot; etc.)</dd><dt><font size="4">By &quot;<font color="#000080"><b><i>Under&nbsp;God</i></b>&quot; </font>I do <b>not</b> mean</font></dt><dd><font size="4"><i>the god of Osama bin Ladin</i>.</font></dd></dl>
467<ul>
468  <li>
468I mean the God of <a target="_blank" href="http://SamAdamsCoaching.com">Samuel Adams</a>, John Hancock, and America's Founding Fathers:
469    <ul>
470      <li>James Madison, the &quot;Father of the Constitution,&quot; would say that Osama bin Ladin's religion is a &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/false-religion.htm">false religion</a>.&quot; (Happily, not all Muslims share Osama's religion.)</li>
471      <li>I mean the <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/true_religion.htm">True Religion</a>.</li>
472    </ul>
473  </li>
474  <li><font size="4">I mean Jesus Christ</font>
475    <ul>
476      <li>I apply Christianity
477        <ul>
478          <li>personally, pledging my <a href="http://JustificationbyAllegiance.com">allegiance</a> to Jesus.</li>
479          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/anti-trinity.htm">nationally</a>, acknowledging that America was once a <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/EndTheWall/HolyTrinity.htm" target="_blank">Christian nation</a>;</li>
480          <li><a href="http://ChristianGlobalism.com" target="_blank">globally</a>, working to fulfill Christ's &quot;<a href="http://www.garynorth.com/freebooks/docs/215a_47e.htm" target="_blank">Great Commission</a>&quot; to make every nation a Christian nation.</li>
481        </ul>
482      </li>
483    </ul>
484  </li>
485</ul>
486<hr>
487<h3><a name="Q.5">Q.5</a>: &quot;Wait a minute . . . . Aren't you illegally mixing politics and religion?&quot;</h3>
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501                        <td width="100%"><font size="2">Kevin Craig opposes the modern myth of &quot;<b>separation of church and state</b>.&quot; The real meaning of the modern phrase is &quot;the separation of <b><i>God</i></b> and State.&quot; It no longer refers to &quot;churches,&quot; or as Madison often called them, &quot;ecclesiastical bodies.&quot; Any government that will not acknowledge itself to be <i><b>under</b></i> God is a government that believes it <i><u><b>is</b></u></i> God.</font>
502                          <ul>
503                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/HolyTrinity.htm"><font size="2">Holy Trinity Church v. United States (1892)</font></a>
504                              <ul>
505                                <li><font size="2">The United States Supreme Court officially recognizes that America is a Christian nation.</font></li>
506                              </ul>
507                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/secular.htm"><font size="2">The Constitution is NOT a &quot;Secular Document&quot;</font></a>
508                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/promote.htm"><font size="2">Promote Christianity</font></a>
509                              <ul>
510                                <li><font size="2">The Reason Why America was Founded</font></li>
511                              </ul>
512                            </li>
513                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/organic.htm"><font size="2">The &quot;Organic Law&quot; - America's Founding Charters</font></a>
514                              <ul>
515                                <li><font size="2">Public schools should teach that Christianity is necessary for good government and the happiness of mankind</font></li>
516                              </ul>
517                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/NWOrd.htm"><font size="2">The Northwest Ordinance</font></a>
518                              <ul>
519                                <li><font size="2">A foundational charter of American government that recognizes that religion and morality are essential for good government and the happiness of mankind</font></li>
520                              </ul>
521                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/religion/nature.htm"><font size="2">&quot;The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God&quot;</font></a>
522                              <ul>
523                                <li><font size="2">The Bible, the Laws of God</font></li>
524                              </ul>
525                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/10commandments.htm"><font size="2">The Ten Commandments</font></a>
526                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/theocracy.htm"><font size="2">&quot;Liberty Under God&quot; Means &quot;Theocracy&quot;</font></a>
527                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/UnderGod.htm"><font size="2">A Nation &quot;Under God&quot;</font></a>
528                              <ul>
529                                <li><font size="2">This phrase pervades American history; it was not invented in the 1950's</font></li>
530                              </ul>
531                            </li>
532                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/religion/providence.htm"><font size="2">&quot;A Firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence&quot;</font></a>
533                              <ul>
534                                <li><font size="2">It is government's <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/duty.htm">duty</a> &quot;to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God . . . the great Lord and Ruler of Nations&quot;</font></li>
535                              </ul>
536                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/barton-education.htm"><font size="2">The Christian Roots of Education in America</font></a>
537                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/22leaders.htm"><font size="2">Why America's Leaders Should be Christians</font></a>
538                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/duty.htm"><font size="2">The National Duty to Not Be &quot;Secular&quot;</font></a>
539                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/religion.htm"><font size="2">Religion and Traditional Values: Foundation of a Free Society</font></a>
540                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/blessings.htm"><font size="2">The Blessings of Liberty</font></a>
541                              <ul>
542                                <li><font size="2">they come from God</font></li>
543                              </ul>
544                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/religion/christianity_and_liberty.htm"><font size="2">Christianity and Liberty</font></a>
545                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/christ.htm"><font size="2">America, a Christian Nation - Christ, the Root of Our Liberties</font></a>
546                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/cityhill.htm"><font size="2">A City upon a Hill</font></a>
547                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/prayer.htm"><font size="2">Government-Sponsored Prayer</font></a>
548                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/edelen.htm"><font size="2">&quot;Founding Presidents Not Christian&quot;??</font></a>
549                              <ul>
550                                <li><font size="2">A response to a columnist who repeats the &quot;urban legend&quot; that America's Founding Fathers were not Christian</font></li>
551                              </ul>
552                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/1stAmend.htm"><font size="2">The First Amendment</font></a>
553                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/estab-clause.htm"><font size="2">The Establishment Clause</font></a>
554                            <li><font size="2">Free Exercise of <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/religfreedom.htm">Religion &amp; The First Amendment</a></font>
555                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/separation.htm"><font size="2">&quot;The Separation of Church and State&quot;</font></a>
556                              <ul>
557                                <li><font size="2">A look at the prevailing myth</font></li>
558                              </ul>
559                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/true_religion.htm"><font size="2">&quot;True Religion&quot;</font></a>
560                              <ul>
561                                <li><font size="2">Not all religions are equal</font></li>
562                              </ul>
563                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/trust.htm"><font size="2">&quot;In God We Trust&quot;</font></a>
564                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/virtue.htm"><font size="2">Piety and Virtue</font></a>
565                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/mofb/29religion.htm"><font size="2">Missouri Farm Bureau - Religious Life</font></a>
566                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/america.htm"><font size="2">America the Beautiful</font></a>
567                              <ul>
568                                <li><font size="2">This beautiful anthem is actually a national prayer</font></li>
569                              </ul>
570                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/VFT.htm"><font size="2">Micah's Vine &amp; Fig Tree Vision: The American Dream</font></a>
571                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/creationism.htm"><font size="2">Creationism</font></a>
572                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/wilberforce.htm"><font size="2">William Wilberforce</font></a>
573                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/worldview.htm"><font size="2">Worldview: Your Philosophy of Life</font></a>
574                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/wwjd.htm"><font size="2">W.W.J.D.?</font></a>
575                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/thanksgiving.htm"><font size="2">Giving Thanks to God</font></a>
576                              <ul>
577                                <li><font size="2">A National Tradition</font></li>
578                              </ul>
579                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/religion/morality.htm"><font size="2">Religion &amp; Morality vs. Socialism</font></a>
580                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/mercy.htm"><font size="2">The &quot;Works of Mercy&quot;</font></a>
581                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/lepore.htm"><font size="2">Jill Lepore and the Myth of &quot;the Separation of Church and State&quot;</font></a>
582                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/fundamentalism.htm"><font size="2">Fundamentalism</font></a>
583                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/civilization.htm"><font size="2">Western Civilization is Christian Civilization</font></a></li>
584                          </ul>
585                          <blockquote>
586                            <p><b><font size="2">False Religions</font></b></p>
587                          </blockquote>
588                          <ul>
589                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/false-religion.htm"><font size="2">False Religions</font></a>
590                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/statism.htm"><font size="2">Statism - The Worship of &quot;the State&quot;</font></a>
591                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/salvation.htm"><font size="2">Politics as Salvation</font></a>
592                              <ul>
593                                <li><font size="2">The State as Messiah</font></li>
594                              </ul>
595                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/cult.htm"><font size="2">The Cult of the Omnipotent State</font></a>
596                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/state-religion.htm"><font size="2">The State as Priest -- The Myth of &quot;Pluralism&quot;</font></a>
597                              <ul>
598                                <li><font size="2">America's New religion?</font></li>
599                              </ul>
600                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/war.htm"><font size="2">The Supreme Court's War on God</font></a>
601                            <li><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/deism.htm"><font size="2">Were the Founding Fathers &quot;Deists,&quot; &quot;Freethinkers,&quot; and &quot;Infidels?&quot;</font></a></li>
602                            <li><font size="2"><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/mormon.htm">No &quot;Freedom of Religion&quot; for Mormons</a></font></li>
603                          </ul>
604                        </td>
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618<p>The modern idea of &quot;Separation of Church and State&quot; is an evil lie. While the modern Supreme Court declares that America is a &quot;secular&quot; nation, for the first 100 years after the Constitution was ratified, the Supreme Court frequently acknowledged that <b>America was a Christian nation</b>. And <font size="4">the more consistently America was Christian, the less <b><font color="#FF0000">archist</font></b> America was.</font><p>On May 2, 1778, George Washington ordered the troops:</p>
619<blockquote>
620  <p>The commander-in-chief directs that divine service be performed every Sunday at eleven o'clock in those brigades [in] which there are chaplains; those which have none [are] to attend the places of worship nearest to them. It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/true_religion.htm">religion</a>. <b>To the distinguished character of patriot, <span style="background-color: #FFFDB0">it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of </span><span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Christian</span></b>. The
621  signal instances of <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/religion/providence.htm">providential goodness</a> which we have experienced, and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.<font size="1"><br>— George Washington, <a target="_blank" href="http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mgw3&amp;fileName=mgw3g/gwpage003.db&amp;recNum=181">General Orders</a>, May 2, 1778 <em>The Writings of George Washington</em>, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol. XI:342-343.</font></p>
622</blockquote>
623The <a name="Delaware">Delaware</a> Indian Chiefs came to Washington inquiring how they could leave their world of <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/indians.htm" target="_blank">superstition and poverty</a>, and become more like the Americans. On May 12, 1779, George Washington coached them:
624<blockquote>
625  <p>You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/christian.htm">the religion of Jesus Christ</a></strong>. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist 
625you in this wise intention.<br><font size="1"><em>The Writings of George Washington</em>, JC Fitzpatrick, ed., Wash. DC: US Gov't Printing Office, 1932, Vol 15, p.55.</font></p>
626</blockquote>
627<p><a name="Continental">George</a> Washington to New Hampshire Founding Father <a target="_blank" href="http://www.seacoastnh.com/framers/weare.html">Meshech Weare</a>, June 8, 1783:</p>
628<blockquote>
629  I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the Citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.info/one-another.htm">one another</a>, for their fellow Citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the Field, and finally, that <span style="background-color: #FFFFEA">he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to <a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050426021323/http://www.gcc.edu/news/faculty/editorials/sparks_press_2_11_04.htm">do Justice, to love mercy</a>, and to demean
630  ourselves with that <a target="_blank" href="http://churchvstate.blogspot.com/2009/02/virginia-constitution-christian.html" target="_blank">Charity</a>, humility and <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/pacifism.htm">pacific</a> temper of mind, which were the Characteristicks of </span><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">the Divine Author of <b><a name="our-religion">our</a> blessed Religion</b></span><span style="background-color: #FFFFEA">, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/NWOrd.htm">happy Nation</a>.</span><br><font size="2">&nbsp;a Circular Letter of Farewell to the Continental Army, containing &quot;my final blessing to that Country, in whose
631  service I have spent the prime of my life.&quot;<br>Inscribed on a bronze tablet adjoining the Washington pew in <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nyfreedom.com/Stpauls.htm" target="paul"><nobr>St. Paul's</nobr></a> chapel in New York City.</font>
632</blockquote>
633<p>Can we know for sure who is <span style="background-color: #FFFF00">the Divine Author of <b>our blessed Religion</b></span>? Could it have been Muhammad? On July 9, 1812, <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/madison2.htm">President James Madison</a> proclaimed a day of prayer,</p>
634<blockquote>
635  <p>to be set apart for the devout purposes of rendering the Sovereign of the Universe and the Benefactor of Mankind the <span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fcffbf">public</span> homage due to His holy attributes; of acknowledging the <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/sin.htm">transgressions</a> which might justly provoke the manifestations of His divine displeasure; of seeking His merciful forgiveness and His assistance in the great duties of <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/repent.htm">repentance and amendment</a>, <span style="background-color: #FFFFEA">that He would inspire all nations with a love of justice and of concord and with a reverence for the unerring precept of </span><span style="background-color: #FFFF00"><a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/true_religion.htm">our
636  holy religion</a></span><span style="background-color: #FFFFEA"> to <a target="_blank" href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&amp;passage=matt+7:12">do to others as they would require that others should do to them</a></span>.</p>
637</blockquote>
638<p>&quot;<b>Our</b> religion&quot; is Christianity.</p><p>If elected I will follow James Madison's advice to vote against any bill which does not <a href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/promote.htm">promote</a> Christianity, the &quot;<a href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/true_religion.htm" target="_blank">true religion</a>.&quot; <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/TestOath/memorial.htm#12">In one of his most famous speeches</a>, Madison, the &quot;father of the Constitution,&quot; gave his reasons for opposing proposed legislation:</p>
639<blockquote>
640  <b><span style="background-color: #FFFCF4">Because, the policy of the bill is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity</span></b><span style="background-color: #FFFCF4">. The first wish of those who enjoy this precious gift, <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/TrinityHistory.htm#darkness">ought to be that it may be imparted to the whole race of mankind</a>. Compare the number of those who have as yet received it with the number still remaining under the dominion of <font color="#800080"><b>false Religions</b></font>; and how small is the former! Does the policy of the Bill tend to lessen the disproportion? No; it at once discourages those who are strangers to the light of (revelation) from coming into the Region of it; and countenances, by
641  example the <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/TrinityHistory.htm#darkness">nations who continue in darkness</a>, in shutting out those who might convey it to them. Instead of levelling as far as possible, every obstacle to the victorious progress of truth, the Bill with an ignoble and unchristian timidity would circumscribe it, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error.</span>
642</blockquote>
643<p>The Disciples were given a &quot;
643<a target="_blank" href="http://reformedonline.com/view/reformedonline/greatcomm.htm">Great Commission</a>&quot;:</p>
644<div align="center">
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646  <table border="1" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
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648      <td bgcolor="#F1F4FE"><span id="en-KJV-24214" class="text Matt-28-18">And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth.<br></span><span id="en-KJV-24215" class="text Matt-28-19">Go ye therefore, and make every nation a Christian nation,<br></span><span id="en-KJV-24216" class="text Matt-28-20">Teaching them to observe <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/theonomy.htm">all things</a> whatsoever I have commanded you:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2028:18-20&amp;version=KJV"><font size="2">Matthew 28:18-20</font></a></span></td>
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653<p>During the first 100 years after the Constitution was ratified, courts -- including the Supreme Court of the United States -- repeated on numerous occasions that <b>America was a Christian nation</b>, including the notable 1892 case of <i><a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/HolyTrinity.htm">Church of the Holy Trinity vs. United States</a></i>. Only someone ignorant of <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/barton.htm">the facts</a> or with a secularist agenda would ever say that America was not originally a Christian nation.</p><p>But Washington D.C. does not always act consistently with &quot;<span style="background-color: #FFFCF4">the Characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed Religion</span>&quot; -- to do unto others as you would
654have them do unto you, and to not be like &quot;the kings of the Gentiles.&quot; America has never been 100% consistent with &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/christian.htm">the religion of Jesus Christ</a>.&quot; Of all the political parties, I think the precepts of the <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/EndTheWall/true_religion.htm">True Religion</a> are best reflected by the Pledge required of all members of the <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/what_is_the_libertarian_party.htm">Libertarian Party</a>:</p>
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668                        <td width="100%"><p align="center"><font size="7">#1</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br><a href="http://iamnotanarchist.us/audio/01.mp3" title="Initiation of Force">audio</a></font></p></td>
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682<ol>
683  <li><b><font size="4">I do not believe in or <a name="No1">advocate</a><font color="#800080"><br>the initiation of force<br></font>as a means of achieving political or social goals.</font></b></li>
684</ol>
685<ul>
686  <li>no <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/8th-steal.htm">theft</a> -- even if it's called &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/taxation.htm">taxation</a>&quot; or &quot;revenue enhancement.&quot;</li>
687  <li>no kidnapping -- even if it's called &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/conscription.htm">conscription</a>&quot; or &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/prison.htm">imprisonment</a>&quot;</li>
688  <li>no <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.US/6th-murder.htm">murder</a> -- even if it's called a &quot;bold <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/imperialism.htm">foreign policy</a>&quot; or &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/capital_punishment.htm">capital punishment</a>&quot;</li>
689</ul>
690<p>Beyond the <b><i>initiation </i></b>of force, the religion of Jesus Christ prohibits <b>the return of force:</b></p>
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704                        <td width="100%"><p align="center"><font size="7">#2</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br><a href="http://iamnotanarchist.us/audio/02.mp3" title="Response to Initiation of Force">audio</a></font></p></td>
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717</table>
718<ol>
719  <li value="2"><b><font size="4">I do not believe in the <a name="No2">return</a> of force -- no retaliatory, punitive <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/vengeance.htm">vengeance</a></font></b></li>
720</ol>
721<ul>
722  <li><b>Returning Force Against <font color="#FF0000">Private Force</font></b>
723    <ul>
724      <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205:43-48&amp;version=KJV">Love your enemy</a></li>
725      <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5:38-40&amp;version=KJV">&quot;Turn the other cheek</a></li>
726      <li>be <a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/1%20Corinthians%206:7">defrauded</a> rather than sue (<a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/CCS_ad.htm">1 Corinthians 6</a>)</li>
727      <li>Do not return evil for evil; overcome evil with good (<a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/thesis/Romans12text.htm">Romans 12</a>; <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=&quot;romans+12&quot;+site%3Avftonline.org">more</a>)</li>
728    </ul>
729  </li>
730  <li><b>Returning Force Against <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/state-defined.htm#1"><font color="#FF0000">Government Force</font></a></b>
731    <ul>
732      <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt%205:41&amp;version=HCSB">Go the Second Mile</a></li>
733      <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/index.php?search=suffer&amp;version1=NIV&amp;searchtype=all&amp;limit=none&amp;wholewordsonly=no&amp;startnumber=126">suffer</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/postpers.htm">persecution</a></li>
734      <li>martyr, no <a target="_blank" href="http://kevincraig.us/revolution.htm">revolutionary</a></li>
735      <li>Did Jesus Practice &quot;
735self-defense?&quot; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2010:39;%207:30,44;%208:59;%20Luke%204:29-30&amp;version=KJV">Yes</a>, but not by armed revolution
736        <ul>
737          <li>Jesus said, &quot;My Kingdom is not of this world. If it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But actually My Kingdom is not from hence.&quot;<br><a target="_blank" href="http://bible.cc/john/18-36.htm"><font size="2">John 18:36</font></a></li>
738        </ul>
739      </li>
740    </ul>
741  </li>
742  <li><b>The Myth of &quot;Self-Defense&quot;</b>
743    <ul>
744      <li>Christians seek to prevent evil from occurring.</li>
745      <li>There are ways to <i><b>defend</b></i> yourself against aggression;<br>that is, to <i>prevent</i> an act of aggression from happening.
746        <ul>
747          <li>Lock the door</li>
748          <li>Use a shield</li>
749          <li>Run away.</li>
750        </ul>
751      </li>
752      <li>But once the act of aggression has taken place<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; and you have been aggressed against,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; then initiating a second act of aggression against the aggressor is not &quot;self-<i><b>defense</b>.</i>&quot;<br>You're no longer <b><i>defending</i></b> yourself,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; you're on the <i><b>offense</b></i>;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; you're taking <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/vengeance.htm">vengeance</a>.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp; You're not <i>preventing </i>violence, you're <i>adding </i>to the world's violence.</li>
753      <li>The myth of <a target="_blank" href="http://kevinforcongress.blogspot.com/2010/09/why-i-reject-self-defense.html">personal</a> self-defense</li>
754      <li>The myth of &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://kevinforcongress.blogspot.com/2007/07/vengeance-vs-self-defense.html">National</a> Defense&quot;</li>
755    </ul>
756  </li>
757  <li><b><a name="courts">Reconciliation</a> through Repentance, Not Vengeance or &quot;punishment&quot;</b>
758    <ul>
759      <li>Goal + Process = repentance and reconciliation
760        <ul>
761          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.reformedonline.com/view/reformedonline/conflict.htm">Matthew 18:15ff</a> - The Church as <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/DRO.htm">Dispute Resolution Organization</a></li>
762        </ul>
763      </li>
764      <li>Competing Free Market Institutions of Systematic, Reconciliation and Restitution
765        <ul>
766          <li>Free Market <b>Dispute Resolution Agencies</b></li>
767        </ul>
768      </li>
769      <li>Do not return evil for evil; overcome evil with good (<a target="_blank" href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/thesis/Romans12text.htm">Romans 12</a>; <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=&quot;romans+12&quot;+site%3Avftonline.org">more</a>)<br>Do not return <b><i>force</i></b> for force, but return <b><i><a target="_blank" href="http://lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux1.html" target="_blank">incentives to reconcile</a> </i></b>for force.</li>
770      <li>Archists (in their hearts) will <a href="http://95days.blogspot.com/2008/11/thesis-91-unconverted-in-millennium.html">pretend</a> to <i>not</i> be archists (in society).
771    </ul>
772  </li>
773</ul>
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787                        <td width="100%"><p align="center"><font size="7">#3</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br><a href="http://iamnotanarchist.us/audio/03.mp3" title="Property: Your Private Calling and Human Betterment">audio</a></font></p></td>
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792                </div>
793              </td>
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800</table>
801<ol>
802  <li value="3"><b><font size="4">
802Private <a name="No3">Property</a> - Individualism, not collectivism</font></b></li>
803</ol>
804<ul>
805  <li>No compulsory redistribution of wealth.</li>
806  <li>not <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/socialism.htm">socialism</a></li>
807  <li>not <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/fascism.htm">fascism</a></li>
808  <li>not <a target="_blank" href="http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/what-is-crony-capitalism/">crony</a> capitalism</li>
809  <li>not <a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/democracy.htm">democracy</a></li>
810  <li>The &quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/VFT.htm"><i><b><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></b></i></a>&quot; society, not the <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory)">New World Order</a></li>
811  <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/8th-steal.htm">List of ways</a> politicians steal private property</li>
812  <li>The rights to <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/life.htm" target="_blank">life</a>, <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/liberties.htm" target="_blank">liberty</a>, and the <a href="http://kevincraig.us/pursuit.htm" target="_blank">pursuit</a> of <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/happiness.htm" target="_blank">happiness</a> are also threatened by <b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b>.</li>
813  <li><a href="http://astonishingprovidence.com/invisiblehand.htm" target="_blank">Unregulated private action</a> - the exercise of divine callings using private property -- increases mankind's standard of living more than <b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b>.</li>
814</ul>
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828                        <td width="100%"><p align="center"><font size="7">#4</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br><a href="http://iamnotanarchist.us/audio/04.mp3" title="Destabilization of Ordered Societies">audio</a></font></p></td>
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841</table>
842<ol>
843  <li value="4"><b><font size="4"><a name="No4">Order</a>, not chaos/disorder</font></b></li>
844</ol>
845<ul>
846  <li>&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/14-40.htm">Let all things be done decently and in order</a>&quot;</li>
847  <li>throughout society, not just in your home or church</li>
848  <li>Liberty is the mother of order; <b><font color="#FF0000">archism</font></b> is the father of chaos.</li>
849  <li>America's Founding Fathers would say America today is chaotic and disordered, even though we have <b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b> which are a thousand times more numerous and more powerful than the &quot;<a href="http://kevincraig.us/swarms.htm">swarms</a>&quot; of <b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b> who plagued America in 1776.</li>
850  <li><b><font color="#FF0000">Archists</font></b> are the greatest source of disorder and instability in our world today.</li>
851  <li><b>Education</b>:
852    <ul>
853      <li>The Founders insisted that the primary purpose of public education was to teach <a href="http://kevincraig.us/education.htm#Organic" target="_blank">religion and morality</a>, because <b>order</b> is <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/religion/morality.htm" target="_blank">maintained by religion and morality</a>, <b>not</b> by <b><font color="#FF0000">archism</font></b>.</li>
854      <li><b><font color="#FF0000">Archists </font></b>in Washington D.C. have prohibited local public schools from teaching students that the Declaration of Independence is <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/schools.htm" target="_blank">really true</a></li>
855      <li><b><font color="#FF0000">Archists</font></b> are at <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/EndTheWall/war.htm" target="_blank">war</a> with &quot;our holy religion&quot; and with Christian morality</li>
856    </ul>
857  </li>
858  <li><b>Economics:</b>
859    <ul>
860      <li><b><font color="#FF0000">Archists</font></b> cause economic recessions/depressions, the &quot;boom-bust&quot; of the &quot;business cycle,&quot; and economic <a target="_blank" href="http://mises.org/document/2714/">disorder</a>; compounded by archist confiscation and redistribution of wealth known as &quot;<a href="http://KevinCraig.us/bailout2008.htm" target="_blank">bailouts</a>.&quot; <b><font color="#FF0000">Archists</font></b> are an obstacle to the economic stability and predictability needed for long-term investment.</li>
861    </ul>
862  </li>
863  <li><b>International Relations:</b>
864    <ul>
865      <li><b><font color="#FF0000">Archists</font></b>
865 destabilize and overthrow competing <b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b> on a far greater scale than so-called &quot;anarchists.&quot;
866        <ul>
867          <li>The government of Iran was overthrown in 1953 by U.S. and British Intelligence, which led to the Iranian Revolution, then U.S. support for Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran..</li>
868          <li>The International Islamic Jihad from Afghanistan to Kosovo to the U.S. was created with American dollars beginning before the Carter Administration to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.emperors-clothes.com/interviews/brz.htm" target="_blank">destabilize</a> and overthrow the Soviet Union, including the building of Mosques throughout Eurasia and printing of Korans with Wahabbi notes. &quot;<a href="http://www.satyacenter.com/news-global_visionaries-911-al-qaeda-cia-oil-companies?page=3">America Made Islam</a>&quot;</li>
869          <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.namebase.org/scott.html">The CIA in Indonesia, 1965-1967</a></li>
870          <li>CIA destabilizes Guatemalan government <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Guatemala">Guatemala</a> in 1954, and other governments in <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_the_Americas">Latin America</a></li>
871        </ul>
872      </li>
873      <li><a href="http://wouldjesuscelebratememorialday.com">Would Jesus Celebrate</a> <b><font color="#FF0000">Archist Warmakers' Day</font>?</b></li>
874    </ul>
875  </li>
876</ul>
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891                        <td width="100%"><p align="center"><font size="7">#5</font><font size="2" face="Arial"><br><a href="http://iamnotanarchist.us/audio/05.mp3" title="Every Man His Own god">audio</a></font></p></td>
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905<ol>
906  <li value="5"><b><font size="4"><a name="No5">God's</a> Law, not Man's Law</font></b></li>
907</ol>
908<blockquote>
909  We have been trained to think of &quot;anarchy&quot; as a situation where every man is his own god. But if Jesus is Lord, then we ought to obey His command not to be &quot;<b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b>.&quot;
909 A world without <b><font color="#FF0000">archists</font></b> is a world of peace, cooperation, harmony, and Free Markets, with everyone dwelling safely under his own &quot;<b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b>.&quot;
910</blockquote>
911<ul>
912  <li>&quot;<a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/religion/nature.htm">The Laws of Nature and of Nature's God</a>&quot;</li>
913  <li><a target="_blank" href="http://KevinCraig.us/theocracy.htm">Theocracy</a> - but <a href="http://KevinCraig.us/anarcho-theocracy.htm" target="_blank">not imposed</a> by archism</li>
914  <li><a href="http://KevinCraig.us/christian.htm" target="_blank">The Christian Religion</a></li>
915  <li><a href="http://kevincraig.us/religion/humanism.htm" target="_blank">The Religion of Secular Humanism</a> brings <a href="http://vftonline.org/XianAnarch/humanism/genocide.htm" target="_blank">genocide</a></li>
916  <li><a href="http://kevinforcongress.blogspot.com/2010/12/birth-of-ruler.html">King Jesus</a> requires &quot;<a href="http://KevinCraig.us/mercy.htm">works of mercy</a>&quot; | <a href="http://samadamscoaching.com/audio/mercy.mp3" tabindex="19">Works of Mercy audio</a></li>
917</ul>
918<a name="Tornado"><hr></a>
919<p align="center"><i><font color="#008000"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman">&nbsp;</span></font></i><b><i><font color="#008000"><span style="font-size: 28.0pt; font-family: Garamond; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Vine</span><span style="font-size: 28.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman"> </span></font></i><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:Garamond;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
920mso-bidi-color:#2A2A2A"><i><font color="#008000">&amp; Fig Tree</font></i> Tornado Crisis Fund</p><p align="center"></span><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:Garamond;mso-fareast-font-family:
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927      <td width="100%"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
928&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">On February 29, 2012, a tornado tore through Powersite, Missouri causing devastating damage.</span><p><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">The home of Kevin Craig was destroyed.&nbsp; And as half of that house served as the offices of <a href="http://VFTonline.org"><b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree, Inc</font></i></b></a>., the home of <b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b> was lost, too.</font></p>
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934<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
935&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">Kevin’s mother, Marybeth, age 86, suffered a serious head injury when the ceiling collapsed on her. She has not recovered well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>The injury accelerated dementia </span><font style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: #2A2A2A">a</font><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">nd her frail body is now sustained by a feeding tube.&nbsp; </font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
936&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">Kevin is her 24-hour a day caregiver, with scheduled (and unscheduled) duties every 2 hours, interrupting sleep and </span><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">all charitable fundraising efforts to continue the <b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b> ministry.</font></p><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">Now, nearly two years after the tornado, the reconstruction of the Powersite home and <b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b> offices are nearing completion, but not still yet finished.&nbsp; Progress has been made as quickly as possible.&nbsp; But, in a widespread disaster area, resources are limited and demand is high even for things like heavy equipment and dumpsters.&nbsp; So,
937        demolition and debris removal took three months before actual reconstruction could commence.</font><p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
938&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">Insurance provided for temporary housing expenses for one year.&nbsp; The year has elapsed.&nbsp; The Craigs and </span><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
939&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">, Inc. do not have the financial means to pay for everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Rent, the mortgage on the property under construction, the additional medical expenses for Marybeth's care . . . even with homeowner's and health insurance, the costs of tornado damages and injuries are very overwhelming.</span></p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
940&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">The disaster may prove an opportunity:&nbsp; The home is being rebuilt as a duplex which can be leased or sold as an income producing property for the benefit of the Craigs and </span><font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b></font><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
941&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">, <font size="2">IF AND WHEN IT IS FINISHED</font></span>.<p><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
942&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:#2A2A2A">This opportunity may yet turn into tragedy:&nbsp; The Craigs must keep the mortgage paid or risk losing the newly rebuilt property to foreclosure.&nbsp; Temporary housing rent and utilities must be paid for the Craigs to have a place to live until their home is ready for lease or sale.&nbsp; Marybeth will continue to need medical care, skilled nursing, bathing assistance, medicines, diapers and many other costs that insurance does not cover. Insurance payments are delayed in the backlog of claims paperwork that the carrier is handling in the wake of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>Dozens of telephone calls, emails and letters seem to fall on deaf ears.</span></p><p><font style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Kevin
943        was thinking he and his mother could live in the former home of Marybeth's parents, until we received an email from a cousin:</font></p>
944        <blockquote>
945          I do not think you have any idea that the ranch house is uninhabitable. &nbsp;Two summers ago, &nbsp;I took showers either in town or at the park.&nbsp;The shower flows at a trickle and drains even slower. &nbsp;The toilet is suspect and to live there would mean a new septic system. &nbsp;The pipes to the clothes washer will not work. &nbsp;The roof leaks in many places. &nbsp;The rats have many homes inside including the beds. &nbsp;Finally, right now we are paying over 100 $ a month just to keep the temperature at 35 degrees. &nbsp;You would be better to rent something than to try to pay a heating or cooling bill at that house. &nbsp;Last summer I did not spend any nights at the ranch house, and of course we have not repaired anything in two summers. &nbsp;To drag
946          your mother and brother to that pit is a sin.
947        </blockquote>
948        <font size="3" style="font-size: 12pt;">That's why were asking for your help during this time of urgent need.&nbsp; Your generous and tax-deductible donations to <b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b>, Inc. will be used to help real people in real distress in the wake of a real disaster.&nbsp; And, Lord willing, the ministry of <b><i><font color="#008000">Vine &amp; Fig Tree</font></i></b> will live on -- when Kevin is no longer needed as 24-hour caregiver for his Mom and she has a new home in heaven.</font>
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995        <h3>&quot;Spiritual <a name="exercise">Exercises&quot;</a></h3>
996        <p>This is not an easy website. Not only are there more than 1,000 webpages, some of them are very controversial. They really make you think. It's like being on an athletic team and the coach ordering you to do 1,000 push-ups. It's not like the coach thinks that at the big game this weekend the teams are going to decide the championship by seeing who can do the most push-ups. The coach just knows that it will be easier to hit a ball over the wall in deep centerfield if you do your <a href="http://vftonline.org/Arete4VFT/recovery/spiritual_exercises/urls.htm">exercises</a> before the big game.</p><p>You don't have to agree with everything on this website to benefit from it. Check everything you read here by the Scriptures; test the spirits (<a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=Acts+17%3A11%3B+1+John+4%3A1&amp;NASB_version=yes&amp;language=english&amp;x=12&amp;y=8">Acts
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997). But if you stretch your spiritual muscles it will be easier to carry the Cross Christ asks you to carry. There's a lot of spiritual muscle-building here, and it's more entertaining than a Jane Fonda workout video.</p><p><b>Examples</b>:</p>
998        <dl><dt>Although millions of Americans go to church every Sunday, more and more Christians are disenchanted with the liturgies and rituals of only-on-Sunday religion. If you fall in love with Micah's <font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree </b></i></font>vision you may be tempted to pull up stakes and leave your church. That <a href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/No_Ecclesiocracy/why_stay.htm">may not be the best idea</a>. On the other hand, if you feel that you're entitled to go to heaven just because you planted yourself in a pew every Sunday, you may be in need of some spiritual exercises:</dt><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/definitions/justification.htm">Justification by Allegiance</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/Kevin4VFT/noattend.htm">Should
999            A Christian &quot;Attend Church&quot;?</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/HouseChurchDebate.htm">The Home-Church Debate</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/book4.htm">Every Christian is a priest, every Christian a pastor</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/Directory/5b_church.htm">A World Without Priests</a></dd><dt>&nbsp;</dt><dt>Most Americans believe that living in America is better than living in any communist dictatorship, and most Americans believe that capitalism is better than socialism, but few can explain why. As a result, America is becoming more socialist. The <font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree </b></i></font>defense of laissez-faire capitalism will make it easier for you defend the American
1000            idea of &quot;limited government,&quot; even if you choose not to go as far as we do. Ready for some push-ups?</dt><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/wundrer/issues/capitalism.htm">Laissez-faire Capitalism</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/thesis/summary01.htm">Anarcho-Capitalism</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/Directory/5a_state.htm">A World without &quot;The State&quot;</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/XianAnarch/homepage.htm">The Christian Anarchist Homepage</a></dd><dd><img border="0" src="http://VFTonline.org/Kevin4VFT/images/new.gif" align="middle" width="61" height="40"> <a href="http://HowToBecomeAChristianAnarchist.com">How to Become a Christian Anarchist</a>.<br></dd><dt>&nbsp;</dt><dt>America is the land of
1001            &quot;<a href="http://LibertyUnderGod.org">Liberty Under God</a>.&quot; Our official national motto is &quot;<a href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/trust.htm">In God We Trust</a>.&quot; But a vocal minority of atheists have convinced the Supreme Court that America's Founding Fathers intended to create a <b><i>secular</i></b> nation with a <a href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/index.htm">wall of separation</a> between God and Government. Anyone who says religion should be accommodated by the government is accused of trying to &quot;impose a theocracy.&quot; You're looking kinda flabby -- time for some exercises:</dt><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/VFTfiles/A-T3.htm">America was a Theocracy</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/wundrer/issues/theocracy.htm">America
1002            should be a Theocracy Again</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/TestOath/22leaders.htm">Atheists should not be allowed to hold political office</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/TenC%204%20USA/UShistory/index.htm">America's Laws were Based on the Ten Commandments</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/thompson.htm">Court Decisions Banning the Ten Commandments Should be Resisted</a></dd><dt>&nbsp;</dt><dt>But should we resist the increasingly anti-Christian federal government with guns and bombs? If you even thought that for a second, you need to do some spiritual sit-ups.</dt><dd><a href="http://www.wouldjesuscelebratememorialday.com/">Would Jesus Celebrate Memorial Day?</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/XianAnarch/pacifism/index.htm">Christians
1003            should be Pacifists</a></dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/XianAnarch/cause/1776.htm">America's War for Independence (1776) was unBiblical</a></dd><dt>&nbsp;</dt><dt>Deciding how &quot;realistic&quot; or &quot;practical&quot; the &quot;<font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree</b></i></font>&quot; vision is depends on how big your God is. Many Christians pay lip-service to the idea of God being &quot;sovereign,&quot; but their God just isn't powerful enough to bring about Micah's &quot;<font color="green"><i><b>Vine &amp; Fig Tree</b></i></font>&quot; vision without coming back to earth, destroying everything and starting over. Besides, the ACLU might be offended if God started fulfilling prophecies like Micah's. How sovereign is your God? Is there a wall of
1004            separation between God and society called &quot;free will?&quot; Is Man able to tell God to back off and leave us alone? Push-ups, push-ups, push-ups!!</dt><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/EndTheWall/providence.htm">God Interferes in Human History</a></dd><dd>God has predestined every molecule in the universe, including the electrical impulses in your brain that you call &quot;thoughts.&quot; I dare you to <a href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/predestination/index.htm">use your &quot;free will&quot; to click here</a>.</dd><dt>&nbsp;</dt><dt>But even if God is sovereign, hasn't He predestined everything to get worse and worse before the Second Coming of Christ? If we work for the Christian Reconstruction of society, won't that just delay the Second Coming?
1005            Wouldn't it be <b>sinful</b>, in fact, to try to &quot;bring in the Kingdom&quot; by our own works?<br>This is going to take <b><i><u>a lot</u></i></b> of push-ups. Check with your <a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=MARK+2:17&amp;language=english&amp;version=NASB&amp;showfn=on&amp;showxref=on">Physician</a>. Don't try all these exercises alone all at once. Please go through them in order.</dt><dd><a href="http://notcomingsoon.net">The Second Coming has already taken place</a>.</dd><dd><a href="http://vftonline.org/xmaspiracy/1/1_b.htm">We are already in The Kingdom</a>.</dd><dd>In fact, <a href="http://vftonline.org/Patriarchy/definitions/heaven.htm">we're already in heaven</a>.</dd></dl>
1006        <p>Again, you don't have to agree that we're already in heaven, but if you work through those exercises, you'll find it a lot easier to believe what the Bible says, and you'll agree that after doing these exercises, you'll be strong enough to believe a lot more of what the Bible says than you could before.</p><p>And isn't it your goal to believe as much of the Bible as you possibly can? That's our goal as well.</td>
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