Fritz Springmeier

hierarchies? Further, does the IRS have the right to define and restrict what the churches' missionshould be?Recently, several magazines have had articles on the Credit voucher system that PresidentBush, the Brookings Institute and others of the New Order have been advocating. The Creditvouchers give certain parents a voucher for the sum of money that the state presumably spendson the child in the public school and allows the parents to use this at the private school of theirchoice. However, the list of private schools allowed is determined by the government. When oneWisconsin family put their children in a school found using the Bible, the school was notifiedby the government they needed to withdraw the use of the Bible or they would be removed fromthe voucher program. The school refused and was withdrawn from the program. The creditvoucher system is another Trojan Horse gimic of the New Order to destroy the Parochial schools.It has possibilities of doing damage in several ways.THE STATE ELEVATED TO GODHOODFichte, Hegel, and Hitler to name a few felt the State should take over much of the role thatis God's to have. A subtle form of this is extensively practiced already in the United States.Arthur Schlesinger for instance discarded moral principles and elevated the state to Godhood;he wrote, "...the safest basis for decision in foreign policy lies not in attempts to determine whatis right or wrong but in attempts to determine the national interest." 10National interest, or the State, is the highest basis for human decisions. This thinking is thephilosophy of the CIA, the FBI, and the military. Numerous CIA agents have been bothered bywhat they have been ordered to do. But they are convinced that they are doing it for the interestsof the nation, (whatever that is). What the interests of the nation really translates into, in practice,is the desires of the One-World-Order. If the rulers of the New Order are the state in essence,and the state is god, they are in effect our gods. This is why in places like Communist China andRomania the rulers of state have been treated like divine gods. For example, Mao tse Tung wasworshipped.The obvious answer for the Christians is either to reject this god called the state a. militantly,that is by setting up their own government or opposing the state politically, or b. to reject itpassively by ignoring its pretensions to godhood.Policemen that arrest pro-life activists on the grounds that it is in the national interest and thatthey are preventing the church from interfering in the state are confused. They are elevating thestate to godhood, which is idolatry. They as agents of the state are actually going where the statedoesn't belong. The Scriptures warn the Christian not to have fellowship with demons, becauseone cannot fellowship at both the Lord's table and have fellowship with demons. The Psalms tellus that evil laws are the result of the devil, and that we fellowship with devils by enforcing evillaws.Rather than viewing its duty as one of limiting and challenging faith, the state should realizeits job is the protection of the faiths of its people in God.NOTES1. Roger Williams, p. 292. Caldwell, ed. The Complete Writings of Roger Williams (7 Vol.) IV, Bloody Tenent Yet MoreBloody. NY: 1963, p. 266.3. Reed, Susan Martha. Church and State in Massachusetts 1691-1740. Urbana, IL: Universityof Illinios, 1914, pp. 37, 47.