So you have to consider what most likely came from God and Jesus and go from there, weighing the author and his words against God. The closest that is would be the Gospels at the beginning of the New Testament, although Christ didn't write those. This is Christianity we're talking about, so assuming that the four gospels containing Jesus Christ's words are accurate you weigh the rest of the Bible on that.
So what does Jesus say we should do? We heal the sick, help the homeless find a home, free the prisoners(and we're all prisoners on our own planet by the way-think we Americans have it bad?), expand the frontiers of Freedom, fight evil and prevail wherever we find it and crush the demons literally and figuratively. Jesus DID all of that-and got executed for it!
But first we must be right. It's not important to God that you have a lot of junk-in fact, a childish need for the trinkets the megacorporations push on us gets in the way of the essentials of life. It IS important to God if you do right. So if you're not to be trusted with secrets because you're a gossip, quit trash talking about your neighbors who don't deserve it. If you borrow things and never return them, that's stealing. If you don't spend time with your kids because Survivor or American Idiot is on, well what's more important?
God wants us to love ourselves and love our people as ourselves. He also wants our love as well, but religion, in service to "they", always wind up painting God as a celestial crackhead frothing at the mouth for our suffering-when they're not asking you to tithe. That's actually the devil's propaganda, a subliminal message that makes God repellant to folks. What you get for a religion that's been in the hands of evil men for two millennia.
No. God wants our love because God is love. And if you love, you'll express that love as action. You'll defend yourself and yours; your family, your home, your neighborhood, your town, your country and your culture. Only people who have God are capable of this; those in positions of power certainly don't have God in their hearts-why else would they attack us and destroy our lives as they do?
God wants you-needs you to do your part because you're already in a war for yourself and your world. So you might as well join the battle.
The point is, if your heart ain't right you won't have the inner strength to withstand what's coming, let alone resist it. You'll collapse, give up, take the "easy" way out, betray your friends when things get tough. Being a traitor; that's not something I'd want to carry around for eternity.
Next: learn what's really going on. You sure as hell won't learn it by watching CNN or Fox. The internet's the way to go, as it's the last bastion of independent voices that have a wide reach. Go to Rense.com as it's a warehouse of information… how much of it's valid well, that's for you yourself to determine. Take personal responsibility for what you believe in. Some other good sights are DailyReckoning.com, Gold-Eagle.com, for straight talk about the economy. Another website I would recommend you think about is RumorMillNews.com.
Start getting alternative views-a lot of them are right. You find out what's going on, and while you're not on the internet: get the hell out of debt and that slave wage job you're working like a chump. Most of the fruits of your labors either your employer keeps or the government taxes away-and then like a genius you turn around and spend what's left on crap you'll have to replace because it's engineered to break down or otherwise become obsolete.
Now, you must take steps to prepare yourself financially; you can't get political freedom if you're still dependent on the same economics that has you like a mouse in a wheel for our enemies.
Stop buying crap you don't need! What you got should be fine. In fact you probably got extra-sell it! Then, take that money and start paying off those credit cards. At 18%, it makes me wish I owned a bank. You'll immediately notice you have more money in your wallet.
Sell that SUV, and get a somewhat older decent car that you can pay for up front: kiss that 300 a month loan payment goodbye! You can barely handle driving that monstrosity anyway. There are auctions in the paper all the time, giving you a even bigger savings. Having 300 bucks more a month not tied up in debt payments gives you more options-like liberating yourself from debt.
Scale down your domicile; sell that huge house and that huge mortgage payment for a smaller home that you can own free and clear. Having at least a grand a month of cash to do as one needs is liberating.
The end result? You are debt free, with no obligations other than your taxes and to feed and clothe you and yours. You're no longer stretched to the limit trying to juggle bills. You, with a purpose and free time and money can now take the next step; finding your purpose.
Economically freeing yourself, now you can ask this question: what's your purpose? Well, what is it in your heart that you want to do? Not what career's being promoted to get you to get training for. What is it that you've wanted to do when you were/are a young adult?
Do it!
In doing it, and talking to God about it in your heart, you should be able to discover what it is about it that will serve others. In effect, what you like doing and how you're meant to do will in some way that help others. The larger permutations and consequences you should leave up to God to worry about; like I said, we're in a war and He's trying to set us free, not annihilate us, so we have to have faith.
So you find your purpose(s) and in doing that with a debt free lifestyle you should be able to make a living on it. You will have effectively a small business-you'll get to keep all the fruits of your labors…
…wait, I gotta talk about taxes.
Having in effect a small business, you're required by the state to register as a "corporation", report sales tax, and all the regulations bureaucrats love to lash onto you to be permitted to operate. Reclaim your freedom; stay small, stay hidden, deal strictly in cash or barter items or work. The state and it's bureaucrats have long ago proven they don't deserve our tax dollars by the way they've ruined living in America. Deny them the fruits of your labors, keep it underground and black market. Starve them of money.
Furthermore, those dollars in your pocket, on your checks and in your accounts-they're not really dollars at all; they're debt notes. IOU's denominated in dollars by a private banking cartel that loans these insturments to the government at interest. Our money is supposed to be gold and silver as mandated by the Constitution, but until a economic crash occurs and the dollar's printed into toilet paper this is but trivia.
But what isn't trivial is how we're all addicted into judging almost everything by dollar worth. And it's through using these dollars that the state taxes and fines us to death. No matter what we buy, there are taxes tied to it. So in your dealings cut down on the usage of their funny money. Don't consume. Trade, borrow, lend, barter among others who want to be free. Anything's preferable to feeding the beast.
Next step to take to make yourself ready for the fight; life insurance. Not some policy from a insurance firm, but preparations you take as being responsible for yourself and yours. What are you preparing for? The shutdown of America and it's way of life as a engine for consumption and debt based economics. As you've discovered by your cutting back we Americans have been trained to be the most hoggishly wasteful society in history. This was not by accident. With our consumption comes cashflow for the megacorporations that set this system up after WW2, so the logical outcome is the extreme wastefulness that goes on today. We're trained to get the shiniest new junk they pump out, even at the expense of a lifetime of debt slavery. We're dependent on being wasteful.
This wastefulness makes America extremely vulnerable; just cut off the flow of oil and the flow of goods and services comes to a halt, and with most of us living in urban sprawl with few outlets of basic goods within walking distance-think of the August 2003 blackout, and picture it going on.
And on.
And on.
And on for weeks, months, probably years.
People will run out of food within a couple of weeks. Crime will skyrocket before that, and when that last dusty can of green beans is consumed cold desperation and panic will set in. And the blood will flow. Blood will flow-probably from you if you're unprepared-when that low income neighborhood next to yours starts running out of food.
That's just one scary scenario, and it's not even close to being the worst case. Nuclear attack, a restaging of a 9/11 style operation, mass terror strikes using stolen briefcase nukes, North Korea lobbing ballistic missiles at our cities. A civil rights crisis involving abuse of illegal immigrants galvanizing the estimated 20 million illegals in America into reacting violently.
Then there's what the government will do when they drop the hammer on our Constitution and Bill of Rights and institute Martial Law; think those ninja suited madmen will stop at incinerating a few backwoods churches and cabins?
You've read this far so here are some things you can and must do to protect yourselves physically:
Look at a map of the United States of America. You'll see all the major cities, the clusters of suburban towns that cluster around them like grapes, and the interstates that connect the urban areas like vines. Now, look at the clear areas(not in the southwest, that's desert!) You'll find some areas pretty far from the urban areas and interstates that have towns-move there, or have a second home or relations, or even a trailer on a patch of cheap land. Those towns, those rural areas will become the new redoubts of Freedom in America, because "they" have their power in the major urban areas and military bases. Seek towns that could survive a breakdown of the economy. Plus, they're cheap to live in.
Have some spare fuel for your car-rotate it out every six months because gasoline's formulated to break down. Get some 55 gallon barrels, some 5 gallon jerry cans and a hand pump to have as a emergency reserve. Take the jerry cans to the gas station and fill them up each time you gas your car, then fill your barrels. Have your barrels in a separate shed, like a tool shed, and when they're full, draw fuel from them to gas your car up and replenish as needed. It's not to take advantage of price spikes, it's to have a emergency reserve.
Get a generator. A gasoline generator would be more compatable with your fuel storage but lower powered. Diesel generators are more powerful and has the advantage of there being a recipe for brewing a biofuel out of vegetable oil to fuel it.(THIS CAN ALSO BE USED IN AUTOMOBILES WITH DIESEL ENGINES). Any generator however can power tools, a computer for internet access, refrigerators-it's better having electricity than not having it of course.
Have what they used to call a pantry. Buy extra food you'll eat, and rotate that out like I described with the gas storage. Buying in bulk saves cash in the long run anyway. And what's even better is growing your own food naturally; having your own food supply and a few items to trade will keep your food costs low.
To learn a LOT more, get the following magazines and their back issues.
The old MOTHER EARTH NEWS, up to about issue 80. These you'll have to look for at garage sales and flea markets.
LINDSAY TECHNICAL BOOKS CATALOG. Everything you need to know about to restart a industrial civilization after the apocalypse, they have it-but don't wait until after the hammers dropped on us to get at least a basic battery of books.
BACKWOODSMAN. Small publication, but has a lot about basic living and old frontier knowledge. Having back issues makes a good start to a survival library.
BACKWOODS HOME MAGAZINE. Like the Backwoodsman, but they have all their back issues on CD's to view on your computer.
Learn how to use a weapon-preferably a rifle, because life in America can become very basic, very easily and at best the desperate and the criminal are going to do what they got to. Worse, is a out of control state being unleashed in a martial law(no law but what's dictated at the end of a muzzle) scenario. They can shoot kids in the back, burn and poison whole families alive, so they'll have no problem capping your middle class self. So if you want to keep what's yours, learn to use a rifle in a combat situation.
Quick firearems overview
Pistols you carry on you when someone brings a fight to you-they allow you to fight your way to your rifle, which is much more accurate and powerful. You always have your pistol on you, or beside you within reach. Automatics are preferable over revolvers. You can always go to a gun show and find a Glock, or 1911 type. Also common are Browning Hi-Powers, Sig Sauers, and Smith & Wessons(last resort). Stick with 9mm, .40, and .45 auto calibers as they're cheap and common. Have extra magazines and ammo and practice shooting live ammo and dry fire/reloading.
Shotguns are good in a limited sense. Home defense and a car gun in a combat situation in moving vehicles, a spray of buckshot allows a greater margin for error. Riot type shotguns with the magazine going the full length of the barrel are preferable. Fit the weapon with rifle sights.
Rifles are the PREFERRED weapon to have in a gunfight. And the preferred type of rifle to have is one made to fight with in the first place. That means assault rifles that traitors in government have nightmares about. If you have the money, and being middle to upper class you should have the money, get a M-14. It's accurate, has a nice trigger pull, and shoots the hard hitting 7.62mm NATO round. It's also gonna cost you about 2,000 bucks to properly provide for it with extra magazines, ammo, and spare parts. It and it's ancestor, the 30-06 WW2 M-1 Garand are used in the Civilian Marksmanship Program. This course will teach you how to shoot and hit out to 1,000 yards(and how it's survived over the years is something of a miracle). Sign up and learn how to use a rifle in combat.
Second choice is the FN-FAL-it has a pistol grip, but it's sights and trigger are crappier. The HK-91 is the most reliable rifle of all, but has even crappier sights and trigger, is the most expensive, and it'll kick like a elephant gun. Stay away from the "clones" cobbled together from parts kits, unless you want to learn gunsmithing to get them running properly.
If you're broke or just cheap, war surplus bolt actions like the Enfield and the Mauser are cheap and ammo's currently plentiful-but look for .308 versions of these guns. You can buy several and have them to arm friends and others who tag along in a pinch.
Where to get these weapons? First, look around for any gun shows; you can buy privately without filling out federal forms that register you and your gun with the government. You'll get the widest variety of weapon and ammo selection at these weekend shows, plus good advice from folks who know what they're talking about.
If no shows are around you, or you're in need of a gun quick, you can look through the classifieds. Someone's always got something for sale, though it probably won't be what you're looking for.
A third option is to cruise garage sales and flea markets, but that's a crapshoot and your odds of getting ripped off if you don't know what you're doing go way the hell up.
Gun shops? Nice for buying ammo and getting your gun serviced, and they're the most reputable, but you'll have to sign that form and get registered with the government and have a background check. And why go through that if government's the problem in this country? You're only free with a gun when the government doesn't