Good Government

[Amisk]

"Everybody says they want ‘good government, but you can’t hope for that until there’s an agree-upon standard of what’s ‘good’. At one time — when Canada was founded, as our Constitution says — that standard was taken from the Bible. And for Canada’s first 100 years, every generation lived better than its parents, as we followed those time-tested standards. Then, back in the middle of the Sixties, we took a sharp turn away from those standards. The result? Canada plunged into catastrophic debt, moral and social decay… People of my generation remember when most Canadians, even in the big cities, didn’t lock their doors. Today, our streets are cesspools of violence, our parks, our schools — even our homes — are not safe." Don Cook (cycling for The Christian Heritage Party) July of 2006

[sreno7]

OK soo your point is? I see that the social programs that our country used to be known for have been cut and cut and that many people are living on the streets, involved in addiction to salve their pain and committing crime to get their fix and survive. Any idea how many homeless there are in this nation now?

[Amisk]

OK soo your point is? I see that the social programs that our country used to be known for have been cut and cut and that many people are living on the streets, involved in addiction to salve their pain and committing crime to get their fix and survive. Any idea how many homeless there are in this nation now?


In answer to your first question, "soo your point is?"

Perhaps it is: "Could it be?
Could poor government which is eroding our Christian past, our lack of morality in our present age, be the result of Christians voting for non-Christan politicians, and our backing parties at the polls who are more concern about dollars and cents and power than setting course which follows the scripture?

It kind of appears that there is a relationship between the spiritual state of the church and the way that Christians vote at the polls.
When countries loose out spiritually the church usually was the first to slide into a backslid en state.

If one looks back in history it might be safe to say that it appears that a nation falls spiritually first and then crime climbs and prosperity drops as time goes on. Israel in the Old Testament is a good example of it. Perhaps another comparison might be found more recently in British history.


In answer to your second question, "Any idea how many homeless there are in this nation now?'"

No, but I know that we feed a good number breakfast three times a week at the Citadel gym. As long as there is one coming for breakfast, that is one too many. It is totally out of place in a country with the wealth of Canada. Most of it appears has arrived with the spiritual down fall of the church and a government that has taken moral teaching out of our school systems.

[StreetSoldier]

The choice to eradicate this is really in our hands; the power of the church to liberate the downcast, far supercedes the government oppression and promotion of that which is detrimental to our societies. Rather than pointing the finger at the few politicians that are making bad decisions, we should really be pointing the finger at the multitude of Christians who choose to not take an active role in opposition. Personal comfort is our biggest enemy, not our governments.

[sreno7]

AMEN and AMEN!