It is written: “Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with destruction. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak deceit.” -Psalm 3:9
politics– the use of strategy* or intrigue* in obtaining power or status. Let us take a real close look at secular (not spiritual/not religious) politics. Taken further it means:
*strat-e-gy (strat’i je), n.,pl. -gies, 1. the science or art of planning and directing large-scale military movements and operations. 2. a plan or method for achieving a goal. -stra-te-gic (stra te jik). adj – stra-te-gi-cal
*in.trigue (v.in treg’; also in’treg) v., -trigued, -triguing.n –1. to arouse the curiosity or interest of. –v.i. 2. to plot craftily or underhandedly. -n.3. a crafty or underhanded plot. 4. the act of plotting. 5. a secret love affair. – in.tri’guing.ly. adv.
Politics- Factional scheming for power- Webster’s World Dictionary
Another definition of politic: “Ingenious in devising and pursuing any scheme of personal or national aggrandizement, without regard to the morality* of the measure; cunning; artful; sagacious in adapting means to the end, whether good or evil.” 1828 Webster’s Dictionary
“Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he? -Isaiah 2:22
Political Intrigues of the Past: The Secrets behind Historical Power Struggles
“Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. I really shudder for the future of our country. Someone must not only win the war, but also the peace.” -General George S. Patton Jr. –The Unknown Patton, Charles M. Province; page 99; ©1983
“Rhetoric [is typical] as the art of persuasion yielding belief but not knowledge.” –Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, W.L. Reese
Politics is not Biblical! Politics origin is from secular Greek culture.
David Stevenson, author of Cataclysm (any violent upheaval), deals with First World War as a political tragedy. “Trapped by their own rhetoric” Stevenson insists the stalemate that appeared early in the war was accompanied by a “dynamic of escalation”. No country could quit fighting and accept a negotiated end to the war with its “implication that the dead had died in vain.”… He also believes “the killing was begun and prolonged through deliberate political will.“
“May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things; who have said, ‘With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is Lord over us?’ ‘Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, now I will arise,’ says the Lord; ‘I will set him in safety for which he longs.’” -Psalm 12:3-5
Secular State: “When the government and legal system is separated from control of the priests or the religious establishment. The state’s values are based on systems not overtly drawn from religious examples… Communist States …are typically secular.” –DK, The Book of Rule P.s. Don’t fall for “separation church from state.”- Keep God’s love in government!
“The Kingdom of Christ is separate from the kingdoms of this world. They can never be presumed to be one and the same, no matter what rationalization we try to make. the two operate with two different operating systems. The kingdom of this world centers on ‘ME,’ while the Kingdom of Christ centers on ‘HIM.’” “The Kingdom of Christ is incompatible with a political system. Participation in politics by voting and/or holding office denies and confuses the two separate systems. Jesus simply said, ‘My Kingdom is not of this world.’” -Mennonite Holocaust Perpetrators?, Calvary Messenger Vol. 44 No. 3
Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 “… becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…”
Mother Teresa simply stated: “Religion and politics don’t mix.”
Page 195, §19 “… Besides if they [the People] are not well informed, they are liable to be deceived by intriguing politicians, who seek power only to use it for selfish purposes.” -Government… designed for the use of Families and Schools
“The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice.” -Ezekiel 22:29
Mixing politics and religion is deadly! “This album shows the killers as ‘human,’ and thereby challenges our comfort level. It forces us to ask, How is it that ‘ordinary’ people in ‘civilized’ nations can become killers and accomplices to mass murder?” –Sara Bloomfield, Museum Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
“The origin of the state is to be found in the development of the art of warfare. Historically speaking, all political communities of the modern type owe their existence to successful warfare.” -Wikipedia
“The problem was that Saddam didn’t want peace, and he didn’t care how many people were killed in his rage for absolute power.” –Saddam’s Secrets, Iraqi General Georges Sada. (Georges Sada is a descendent from the Biblical people that repented in the days of Jonah at Nineveh.)
“Then we will no longer be infants tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.” -Ephesians 4:14-15
Influence- Power exerted over others. To effect, modify or act upon by physical, mental or moral power, especially in some gentle, subtle, and gradual way. -Black’s 6th Edition Law Dictionary
Smoke and Mirrors- The “State”, big brother, is not God! Smoke and mirrors is a metaphor for a deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial explanation or description.
Alert Warning! (USA) Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition defines Sovereignty as: “The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which any independent state is governed; supreme political authority; … The power to do everything in a state without accountability (emphasis added), to make laws, to execute and to apply them, to impose and collect taxes and levy contributions, to make war or peace, to form treaties of alliance or of commerce with foreign nations, and the like.”
The answer to Man’s troubles:
