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“Are there aspects to modern life that can be counter-productive to the way God wants us to live life?” Should we teach our children to plant gardens, build houses, stay out of debt, and be self-sufficient? Should they be less reliant on big government, big agribusiness, and big energy companies? How do we teach our children to take dominion? Jack Dody from the Christian Homesteaders Association provides some food for thought on this edition of Generations.

I believe that one of the reasons that Christians have failed to protect innocent life in America, is because they are themselves morally compromised by the practice of birth control. They are quick to condemn others for using the particularly bloody method of abortion, while they make haste to exterminate their own progeny in a cleaner and more efficient manner. Until American Christians find the simple courage to conceive and bear their own children, we might not see the turning of the tide in favor of life.

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Hope springs eternal in the faith of those who love life and liberty. If this world provides little consolation, we can always take refuge in fiction. For those of us who yearn to breathe free, the idea that we might somehow have liberty in our lifetime, is very captivating.

There are those who hope against hope that deliverance might somehow come at the federal level. An embodiment of this idea is expressed in a book by Donald Smith called “Innocent Blood”. It chronicles in intimate detail the life of J.D. Maddox, who becomes governor of South Carolina, and then President of the United States. From this position, he finally remedies the problem of the shedding of innocent blood via abortion.

Buy Book: "Innocent Blood" by Donald S. Smith

A good writer can develop a character to the point where you feel like you know them. Donald Smith does this in excruciating detail. At 810 pages, it is far more than most people can imagine reading, and I doubt that any of the 536 members of congress who were sent a free copy, took the time to take a second glance at it. If you are one of those few people left in this world who actually reads books, you might be able to handle it. It's a good story, but it pushes credulity to imagine that there might be some possibility for redemption at the Federal level, which would culminate in protection for the lives of the unborn. It also goes a little overboard with a terrorist plot towards the end, if you can make it that far.

Another more plausible scenario is scripted by Patrick Johnston in “The Revolt of 2020”. In it, the federal government goes beyond the pale in their rabid rage against life, liberty, and anything decent that might be left in America, and wages war against pro-life activists from Ohio, and other people like Patrick Johnston (may I be counted worthy to be among them.)

This pushes the States of Refuge into a mode where they stand up for what is right, and push back against the Federal government. Of course Texas leads the charge, and is soon followed by Montana, Idaho, and others. I have no attachments to the Lone Star State, but the image of the Texas Guard defying Federal troops, and enforcing Texas law to close down an abortion clinic; is something that would make me want to die in the Alamo all over again. This embodies the philosophy of Christian Exodus, and resonates well.

The absurd part about the story line, is a sub-plot about Islamic terrorists hijacking airplanes, and flying them into buildings. This was especially bad fiction when it was first propagated by the government in 2001, and recycling it a second time is simply nauseating. This book is only the first in a trilogy, so this story is a magnum opus as well. It baffles me how a man of such fervent activity (a father of seven, who runs his own medical practice in Columbus, Ohio, as well as organizing national pro-life activities) found the time to write such volumes, but I guess it is left to very busy men to accomplish the most in their “spare time”.

Buy Book: "The Revolt of 2020" by Patrick Johnston

A more desperate account is given by James Wesley Rawles in “Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse”.

In this account, the breakdown of society is so complete, that there is nothing left to salvage at the Federal or State level, and it is left to a small band of Christian survivalists in rural Idaho to preserve the last remnants of American civilization from their bug-out shelter. Rather than a regular novel, this is a thinly disguised manual on hardcore survivalism. After reading it, I couldn't name a single character, or much about them, but I could recite procedures for guerrilla warfare in the most dire circumstances. The book is sort of a condensed review of the author's work at SurvivalBlog.com. Good reading, but pretty extreme. Personally, I don't believe it will really play out that badly, but we should keep our powder dry, just in case.

Buy Book: “Survivors: A Novel of the Coming Collapse” by James Wesley Rawles