C.S. Hayden's Blog

Morality and Money

• Moral anarchism -- man's lust to be cosmic god and lawgiver, autonomously setting his own standards for right and wrong -- leads to breakdown of cultural order. Closely following this breakdown comes political totalitarianism, which enslaves the weak and cowardly populace that demands salvation through the state. Political totalitarians deliberately, skillfully, and wickedly use the tools of moral anarchism -- appealing to man's lust for instant, painless gratification -- to destroy cultures and enslave peoples.
  
• A populace with larcenous hearts, requiring "something for nothing," lusts after unjust weights and measures. Such a populace demands slavery through debt provided by fractional reserve banking, as well as inflation through debased, statist-issued fiat money.
• A principal barometer for measuring a culture's moral state (addressed in bullet point #1) is to observe its monetary and banking systems (addressed in bullet point #2). An immoral culture yearns to escape God's moral and economic law-order in favor of an autonomous, lawless existence. Forsaking the boundaries of God's moral and economic laws, a morally anarchic people lusts for unrighteous money and banking policies that are birthed, sanctioned, regulated, and "bailed out" by an increasingly totalitarian political machine.
• In short, morality and money are, at root, profoundly theological matters. Do we want the Lord's moral and economic order -- requiring righteous, law-abiding conduct, as well as just weights and measures -- or do we yearn for autonomous morality and money? Immorality and debased money are intimately tied together, and they lead to cultural and economic collapse, coupled with political totalitarianism and slavery for a weak and cowardly people.
• The core issue is the state of men's hearts, specifically the hearts of God's people. Do we embrace God as Lord over our lives, and do we work toward a righteous economic order? Or, do we wish to set our own standards for good and evil? Do we have larceny in our hearts -- a yearning to get something for nothing? If the latter, we will get nothing for something, we will contribute to cultural and economic collapse, and we will see political totalitarianism following closely on its heels -- regardless of whether we voted for the man with the "R," the "D," the "L," or the "C" behind his name!

posted by C.S. Hayden @ 6:00 AM