Keep in mind, this is not a checklist for averting disaster. Western Civilization is now set on an irreversible course toward an economic and social crisis unparalleled in history. Nothing can prevent this. It is inevitable. What this checklist will do however, if implemented on a wide scale, is reduce the negative results of this crisis and increase the speed of recovery. Before we get into the checklist however, we must make sure a couple things are understood....
First, in order to understand the solution, we must first understand the causes of our current crisis. The crisis Western nations now face is the result of philosophies and ideologies implemented in the late 18th through middle 20th centuries. They are both economic and social. They are both interconnected. We must understand this. It started with the late so-called "Enlightenment" period, with the abandonment of Christianity in favor of a naturalistic "religion" (called "Deism") embraced by the social elites of Europe and North America. The Masonic Lodges played a huge role in this process. By the end of the 18th century, two revolutions took place that would shape the Western World for the next two-hundred years. The first revolution took place in North America with the British colonial War of Independence (1776-1783) sometimes called the American Revolution. The second revolution took place in Europe and was simply called the French Revolution (1789-1799). While the second war was far more violent than the first, and took things to far greater extremes, both revolutions were based on the Masonic-Deist principles of social egalitarianism and religious secularism. In America they kicked out the Christian king. In France they killed him. With the establishment of secular republics, wealthy tycoons were now able to control vast resources and influence economies, by influencing the governments in ways that were impossible under Christian monarchies. Capitalism was born, and for a while it seemed like a pretty good thing, especially if you were a white land-owner of European descent. However, within a hundred years, the majority of property and wealth concentrated into the hands of just a few people (monopolies). Small family farms collapsed in favor of massive agricultural plantations. People moved into the cities and were forced to scrape by on meager wages primarily in factories. In response, the people began to clamor for Socialism. Once Socialism was implemented in various countries, primarily in Russia through a revolution (1917-1923) that resulted in the Christian king's assassination (1918), people began turning away from Christ and his Church in massive numbers all over the Western world. You see, Socialism kills religion faster than anything. It turns the state into a "church" of sorts, where all charity becomes "welfare" and there is no material need for religion. By the end of the 20th century virtually every nation on planet earth had implemented some form of Socialism. It was at this time the populations of Europe and North America began to decline, due to the widespread use of artificial birth control and the loss of the Christian ethic against it. To maintain the Socialist systems of the West, nations needed more taxpayers to support the aging population in the absence of a growing native population. (Artificial contraception killed the birth rate you see.) In order for Socialism to work, you MUST have a growing population. So since the state could not force people to have babies, and refused to make artificial contraception illegal, it simply imported new taxpayers in the form of immigrants. Unfortunately, the overwhelming vast majority of those immigrants were Islamic Africans and Middle Easterners. Most of these people remained Muslim and continued to practice the Muslim sexual ethic of marriage with lots of children. As a result, the European Muslim birthrate remained at 4 to 8 children per household, while the Native (non-Muslim) European birthrate dropped below 2 children per household. Do the math! Within half a century, Europe had absorbed so many Muslims that its very historic Christian identity was threatened. Canada now faces a similar future, and the only thing keeping the mosques out of the United States is rampant illegal immigration from Mexico. Once that is shut off however, even the United States will need to import legal immigrants (primarily Muslims) to shore up the failing Socialist schemes of the government. This is not to mention the collusion that has gone on behind the scenes between wealthy mega-Capitalist tycoons and godless-Socialist politicians, to create in many nations (including America) what can only be called the Servile State. This is a system that is not fully Socialist and not fully Capitalist either, but rather a hybrid between them, resulting in the concentration of property ownership between big government and large corporations, and the impoverishment of as many people as possible who are forced to rely on the big government and large corporations for their very existence. Once again, with native birthrates curtailed, more immigrants (usually Muslim) are needed to keep the system afloat. The whole system came crashing down in the fall of 2008, and in spite of massive government (socialist) spending to prop it back up, it all threatens to implode anyway. This is the inevitable demise of the Servile State.
Second, the purpose of the checklist below is to repair the damage done to our Christian culture, and address those problems created by both socialism and unbridled capitalism, which have both effectively manipulated and destroyed the free market for individuals and small family-run business. The solution is to restore social stability and the free market by returning to the Christian principles of family life, small business and cooperative ownership. In other words, we must return to the most widely distributed ownership of property possible. Only by doing this can we hope to lessen the effects of the economic crisis and restore the foundations of Western Christian civilization. This checklist is designed for individuals and families. It's something that can only be implemented on a personal and family level. There is no sense bothering government officials with this, as they won't do anything anyway. If ever any government gets involved to help, it will only be local city municipal governments or maybe county governments at the highest level. Expect no help from the state or national levels. These organizations are totally corrupt and cannot be salvaged. They are headed for collapse, and sadly, we're just going to have to let that happen. Perhaps in time the state governments will wake up, but it will be a cold day in hell before the national governments do anything to help. The way to kill the beast is to starve it to death, and the following checklist (if implemented widely) will do this...
THE CHECKLIST...
- Go back to Church and practice the Christian faith in your home. This is absolutely necessary. If our Christian culture is not rebuilt all of this will be in vain. Stay-at-home (or television) Christianity is no longer an option. We need the Church (a real parish life) to teach us, challenge us and guide us.
- Network with people in your local church community for the exchange of goods and services.
- Get married and start making babies - seriously!
- Make no less than three babies, but it would be preferable to make at least four or five. (Yes, seriously! The Muslims aren't going to stop at two babies, so why should you?)
- Get your money out of the banks! (The banks are a huge engine of the Servile State.) Instead, try to get your money into a Credit Union or Savings & Loan. When you put your money in one of these you become a co-owner with voting rights and entitlement to profit shares.
- Boycott mega-capitalist superstores that destroy small business here at home and support communist economies overseas. Examples would include Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Lowes, Home Depot, Sams Club and similar "big box" outlets. Every time we spend a dollar at one of these outlets, we contribute to the destruction of "mom & pop" stores nearby and in turn prop up communist China and other despotic regimes. We must understand that these superstores are the engines that feed the beast of the Servile State.
- Support small businesses instead, particularly those that are locally owned. This brings business back into the community, and increases local wealth through property ownership, thus depriving the Servile State of corporate capital and making more money available for church and local charities.
- Start your own family-run small business, even if it's just to supplement a little income on the side. This may help bring one of the spouses home from work to stay at home with the kids. (See item 10 below.)
- Use community cooperatives instead of large corporations whenever possible. This can often be done for electricity and utilities. There are even cooperatives for retail goods and services. Again, membership has it's privileges. You get voting rights and may be entitled to profit benefits. If it is possible to switch your employment over from a corporation to a cooperative than do it! Otherwise, if you must work for a corporation, than try to buy stock in it somehow, if it is available to the public.
- Consider private or religious school for your children (if you can afford it) and if not consider home schooling your children. Government run public school is another engine that drives the beast of the Servile State. (See item 8 above.)
Now you understand the crisis, how we got where we are today, and now you have the solution laid out before you in ten simple steps. These are things we can do all by ourselves, without help from any political or governing agency. It can be done, all we need do now is implement it, and spread this list to as many people as possible. Please consider forwarding this blog entry. You can use the "share" icons below, or forward the link manually. Here's the link: http://catholicknight.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-save-america.html

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11. abandon the two party system by voting and supporting candidates from the constitution party, or independent, true conservatives.
12.avoid the federal government in all matters, except the post office
13. consider establishing local co-ops for food, clothing and other necessities.
You said in the American Revolution we "kicked out the Christian king". Well, the king was a heretic. We don't need that kind of a king, we need a Catholic emperor.
I have been following your posts about this...but I have to admit, I am often confused as to the logic and definitions of many economic ideologies. I have yet to see one that really works for everyone as a whole, and none that ever really include religion as a part of it. I am learning more about these thing as time goes on, but maybe you could clear up some questions I have.
I have a good understanding of history , but the economic situation of one time are usually necessary only for that time only. It all seems to intertwine, as one era leads to another. Technology changes the way people do things.
Today, we live in a different world that lacks the agricultural aspects and more the technological. I believe that the French Revolution was the beginning of the end for many things. The only thing that would change things so drastically as to require we "begin again" would be a global nuclear war. Heaven forbid. Even then, order would have to be kept through very violent means.
It sounds like the only way that dispentsationalism could be fully implemented would be to eradicate the current system completely.
What structure would the government have to take?
How is is possible that the big businesses would even allow for it to happen?
Do you think that it is only possible once the very worst (less than nuclear war) would happen, that would make it necessary to implement the plan, only after all current government situations were defunct?
It that even possible, as long as there are rich people and poor people and big corporations?
I am all for the little businesses being instituted, but where will the money come from to get the business going?
Who will pay for all the children that are being born when the family is a low income family? The education is very expensive, as I personally would only send them to a Catholic school--not everyone could or would do this.
I assume by the "Church" you mean the Catholic Church, but how do non-Catholics fit in or what is there take on this? Would the Catholic Church have to become the State Church?
Your first point is really the key to getting everything else done.
Thanks for any help on these questions.
Indeed, from my Catholic perspective the king was a heretic. However, in this violent act of rebellion what we got in exchange was an apostate secular government that has over the years morphed into a godless state that forces religion to retreat wherever it advances. Unfortunately these days, the government is advancing everywhere!
Jerald, I think you might be missing the point behind a Distributist mindset. The principles of Distributism (which is what I think you meant to say when you wrote "dispentsationalism") are implemented by individuals and families. They CANNOT be implemented by the higher levels of government. Government can't do it. Only we, as individuals and families, can do it.
Now as for the problems you described there are issues that resolve themselves over time, if people will just start to implement the items on the checklist in their own personal lives. Don't expect to implement all ten items simultaneously. That just isn't possible for all of us. If you can't do all ten items, then do eight. If you can't do eight, then do five. Do whatever it takes. If you can only implement five, then rest assured in time a day will come when you can do six, then seven, then eight and so on. That's why it's called a checklist. You check off the items slowly, as you go along, and are able to implement whatever items you can. Sadly, because of our current state of affairs, there will be plenty of people who will never be able to implement all ten items, but if those people could just implement half, the world would be a much better place.
I hope that answers your questions.
Thanks for the clarification. understand it better now. I don't know what I was thinking about when I said "dispentsationalism"--my poor busy mind!
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can you believe this Mr Knight????
no wonder the GOP is not to be trusted. They are just as bad as the dems. This good woman wins their pary nomination and they back away from her, preferring to lose then have a real conservative. So maybe they do have a death wish. Pete Frey
Yes Pete, the SAME people have been controlling BOTH parties for decades - behind the scenes - Democrats and Republicans working together toward the Servile State. Bill Clinton admitted it publicly when he was running for prez back in 1992. That's why he won. The establishment bought him off, by assuring his win through the insertion of Ross Perot into the race. The largest campaign contributor in the 2008 election was the same person for BOTH McCain and Obama. That person was George Soros. The TEA Party movement is now exposing this Republican-Democrat alliance to the public, and I expect there will soon be an establishment backlash if the TEA Party Republicans can't be corrupted within a year.
That's why the ten item plan I listed above is so important. The establishment only has power over us because we let them. If we follow the ten item checklist above they will lose that power, regardless of whatever happens in the political realm.
Of course, Jerald, by "the Church" he means the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is actually the only legitimate Church, as it is the original and true Church, founded by Christ 2,000 years ago. Protestants, Eastern schismatics, etc., are by definition not a part of the Church.
And, of course it would be best for any nation if Catholic Christianity and its sublime principles were infused into the state government.
Matariel, stop trying to create disunity among the body of Christ. All Trinitarian Christians (Eastern Orhtodox, Oriental Orthodox, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Reformed, Anglican, etc.) are all a part of the Church. They are considered "separated brethren" by the Catechism of the Catholic Church and are in imperfect communion with it. You insult Christianity by making such bigoted statements.
Just to clarify, when I said "the Church" I indeed meant the Catholic Church in a most ideal sense because it is the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ and his apsotles. That being said however, the Catechism acknowledges that all Trinitarian Christians are indeed "members" of the Catholic Church in an informal sense while their communion is imperfect and impaired, it is nevertheless a "communion" in some minimal way, and we are bound together in the Holy Spirit by virtue of our common Trinitarian (i.e. "Catholic") baptism. Furthermore, the Catechism also acknowledges that the sin of schism cannot be imputed upon those who have been born and raised in these separated groups commonly called "churches" in some informal sense.
So both Matariel and the Anonymous commenter that followed are correct in their analysis and there is no need for them to criticize the other. The fault is my own for not making myself clear enough.
When I said "go back to the Church" I meant the Catholic Church in the most ideal sense, however, this was not meant to be an apologetic blog entry and I recognize that in the United States the ecclesiastical situation is less than ideal. The fact is there are many Trinitarian groups that call themselves "churches" and those Trinitarian Christians who attend them are indeed "Christians" and "Seperated Brethren" according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. While our ecclesiastical situation is less than ideal (even scandalous) I must acknowledge that it is better for these Separated Brethren to congregate together than to remain isolated and alone. Therefore it would be better for them to return to a Trinitarian group ("church") of some kind, rather than stay at home and remain a "church" unto themselves, as so many Protestants have done in recent decades. Again, I would prefer they return home to Rome, but if they won't, it's better to congregate together among other Trinitarian Christians, than to remain an island. That is what I meant by my comments about "Church" and "the Church" above. Sorry for the confusion.
he political views expressed on this blog are all over the place ideologically.
On one hand, we must remake our Christian nations to save them. On the other, the Jews are supremacist for wanting to save their country and culture. We must not compromise with evil, yet "the Palestinians are people, too" and we need to remember that many are Christian. (The actual figure is 2%and the election of islamist leaders shows the direction they want to head in.)
Here is an essay denigrating gays, there is one that denigrates ordthodox Jews (or "zionists," as you call them) who are the natural allies of those who are against homosexual behavior.
You seem to veer here and there with your ideas, and one can't help noticing that there is a particular problem with the Jewish religion. Israel is even described as a country where most are secular and many are new age, instead of as the Jewish nation it is.
There seems to be a battle going on within yourself. You advocate that your readers go to Tea Parties, but then speak ill of evangelicals who support Israel. The Tea Parties are a varied spectrum, but trend towared the conservative and Christian. A better fit might be a leftist rally where the Palestinians are the victim de jour.
Have Israel annex "Palestinian" lands and make them citizens, but let them be sovereign? That sounds like letting one group confiscate the ingenuity and material success of another with no contribution in return.
Variety is the spice of life and all that, but considered politic dialogue requires consistency -- and if there IS inconsistency, it should not veer in one direction only.
Good writing here and interesting comments... But what do you have against the Jews?
Christian, I have no problem with Jews. The problem I have is with Zionism. I see it as a political agenda that contradicts both Christianity and orthodox Judaism. There are many priests and rabbis who would agree with me on that.
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