One Christian Thinks

After listening to a podcast episode by the Ezra Institute, and hearing something Joe Boot said, I decided to put out an impromptu episode discussing the "technocratic dictatorship" that we are seeing right now, taking over from democracy.

I believe it was this episode that I was listening to:

https://www.ezrainstitute.ca/resource-library/podcast/dominion-and-culture-making/

George Buchanan writes a pamphlet called "De Jure Regni", in which it is proposed that "the will of the people is the only legitimate source of power" - a revolutionary way of thinking in the times of supreme leaders, monarchs, and popes!

The Vaudois, brave mountaineers living in the Alps, defend themselves against the Pope's armies, defend their right to think for themselves.

The march toward freedom is slow, but unrelenting, as men continue to think for themselves.

Charles, Emperor of Germany, King of Spain, Naples, and the Netherlands... ...burned, or hanged, or otherwise put to death, more than one hundred thousand men and women for reading the Bible.

Once again, liberty starts first with brave people being willing to think for themselves, defying the authorities of the day!

Heretics, free-thinkers, are willing to suffer and even be executed, for conscience' sake. And yet, the more they are persecuted, the more their numbers grow!

In which the Pope loses all authority in England: "No cause affecting the interests of the kingdom shall be judged outside the realm."

The heart of a man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. - Proverbs 16:9

So too, with kings, emperors, and popes.

The creation of a council, answerable only to the Pope and no other civil or ecclesiastical authority. They operated under one maxim: "A good motive makes any action right." In our words, we might say, "The ends justify the means."