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Welcome to the eleventh episode of One Christian Thinks! With this episode, I give some thoughts on the connection between freedom and personal responsibility.
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Just a few of my own reflections on "The Story of Liberty".
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The stalwart people from Scrooby and Austerfield, who fled their homes to maintain their principles, seek freedom and a new life in New England. There they establish a colony, with a new, revolutionary, system of government.
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Captain Hudson, sometimes making friends with, and sometimes fighting, the natives, as he pilots his ship further inland.
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The story of Captain John Smith, a wild adventurer, who became a leader of the first permanent English settlement in the new home of liberty.
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Men and women flee from England, in pursuit of religious freedom.
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Treachery in the highest places, but in the end, liberty continues to move forward.
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Freedom is not complete until all peoples are free. And yet, even though Mary of Scotland was executed for committing no crime, the progress to freedom continued.
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How the brave people of Holland used their low-lying land as an asset, to defeat the Spanish army, and maintain their liberty.
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The St. Bartholomew Day massacre of tens of thousands of Huguenots, by the Catholics in France.
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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/
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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!
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The Vaudois, brave mountaineers living in the Alps, defend themselves against the Pope's armies, defend their right to think for themselves.
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The march toward freedom is slow, but unrelenting, as men continue to think for themselves.
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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.
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Once again, liberty starts first with brave people being willing to think for themselves, defying the authorities of the day!
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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!
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In which the Pope loses all authority in England: "No cause affecting the interests of the kingdom shall be judged outside the realm."
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The heart of a man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. - Proverbs 16:9
So too, with kings, emperors, and popes.
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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."
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