It will take force of arms to remain free.

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Originalist

Please tell all of this to the unarmed citizens that brought the USSR to its knees.

What are you talking about? We aren't living in the late 80s and early 90s? 23 years the United States has changed drastically. David Aikman's book "When the Almond Tree Blossoms" in 1993 painted a picture of conservative capitalists against liberal socialists in a civil war in the United States. Where the United States is sectioned off with the two groups locked in a battle of force of arms to gain control. Remain free? You think Russians are free? Honestly I didn't know you had such knowledge of freedom in Russia? Are we more or less free than Russians are? My brother, I just don't think you really thought it all through. How It will take force of arms to remain free? Militias in different states making a coalition to fight the Federal Government? Meanwhile what will you do for money? How will you feed your family? Or should I say how will you protect your family?

Vladimir Putin said this concerning Greta Thunberg "No one has explained to Greta that the modern world is complex and different." Greta Thunberg is 16 years old, so naturally her world view is that of a child. But politically and economically she has not the foggiest idea where to begin or where to end. I find that when we have these discussions some people see themselves as Captain America leading the Avengers while waving the American flag wrapped in a Cross. The Constitution being prayed as a Psalmist's hymnal. My dear good brother, it's not that easy. If we lock and load to have regime change through rivers of blood, if the foundations of law and order have collapsed. What can the righteous do? Do you really believe that when the smoke clears you will still have the same constitution? The same Bill of Rights? Let's really get heart attack serious. What if you all lose? What if you don't stand as a the victor? Like Brother Esaias has said, you might have Jesus on your lips, and in your soul. But the rest of your compadres might have a totally different agenda that doesn't have Jesus in the equation.
Southerners who were defending their 10th Amendment rights all believed God was on their side. Matter of fact, both sides believed they were praying to God who were on their own respective sides. But, when the smoke cleared the South was finished, her freedoms were different. Let's run all the way to today. We aren't in the 1800s, or the 1990s, we are in 2020 hair's breath away from 21. Everything looks good on paper, or discussed over catfish at Cracker Barrell. But when we do this all in real time, and without the pillar of fire leading us? We end up deep in it. With everyone looking at you, and asking? What about the unarmed people of the USSR? All while everything is burning around them. But the unarmed people in the USSR didn't take a force of arms to change the USSR. It was economics that brought the USSR to its knees.