Well the outsourcing of my blog has finally paid some dividends. I got this blog entry from my friend and member of InDependence, Jay. He didn’t write it but to credit the author it was written by author Orrin Woodward. Because of its length I am going to break it down into about 5 pieces but it is worth the read regardless of how you voted last week. So here is part 1 of 5.

The following quote whose origin is believed to be traced back to Alexander Fraser Tyler (Tytler in original Scottish).   Regardless of who said it, I believe it is worthy of repeating and expounding in relation to present day America.  I have been thinking about this quote and the state of our union for many months.  I do not write this article in an attacking spirit, but in a spirit of searching for the right path in a world wandering down blind alleys.  

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a louse fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence:”

Here is Tyler’s “Cycle of Democracy” with my thoughts of America in the cycle.

From bondage to spiritual faith;

The Great Awakening of the 1730’s in the American Colonies was a time of revival and spiritual longing.  Jonathon Edwards, considered by many to be America’s greatest mind, led the revival with Biblical sermons and a fire for truth.  Edwards taught the unvarnished truth about sinful man and our accountability to an Almighty God.  Not surprisingly, he is mocked and laughed at today, but that is more of an indictment of our society than Edwards preaching.  Pastor Edward’s magnum opus, Freedom of the Will has never been refuted by any scholar.  This was a critical step in developing the conviction to fear God and not man.  Even if man happened to be the largest empire in the world in which the sun never set – the British Empire.

From spiritual faith to great courage;

Spiritual faith leads to great courage based upon convictions worth sacrificing for.   A person who will does not stand for something, will fall for anything.  Think of the true heroes throughout history.  One of the uniting principles that all heroes have is a willingness to stand for truth and convictions in a world of untruth and apathy.  The Founding Families had great courage to stand for the truth of against tyranny and oppression.  They did this because they knew the Bible said, “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty.”  The British were moving in the direction of excessive taxation (1 %) and the Colonist would not sit back and allow an offsite government to tax local colonist.

Stop in tomorrow for 2 of 5…