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Text Box: was termed “sharp bargaining” but in reality was blatant dishonesty, the Christian religion required and requires total and complete honesty and openness in all dealings and especially that one not take advantage of the ignorance or naivete of another. Some officials persecuted Christians but eventually government perceived the social, legal, and economic benefits of the Christian way of life and where it was not encouraged Christianity was at least tolerated. The sinful materialism of the Jews was defeated and ended in the unhappiness of the Jews while the Christian way of life which focused on attaining eternal happiness through the Sacraments lead to a measure of temporal happiness and the bright prospect of eternal happiness. Both the Bolshevik and the Communist revolutions in Russia were inspired by Jewish writers and philosophy. The sin of materialism was the foundation of the revolution, and that focus on materialism was eventually taken over by people more ruthless than the instigators. While acquisition of material desires may induce what one thinks is happiness in actuality is is hot happiness but merely satisfaction or satiation of a particular material appetite, and it is temporary. The Russian Orthodox Church, even though it was infiltrated to a certain extent by the materialistic and atheistic Communists, in the main retained its focus of eternal happiness through following the teachings of Christ and especially the reception of the Sacraments.The Russian Orthodox Church continues in existence and is in the process of healing that of it which was broken by the Communists. But Communist Russia, the Soviet Union, is dead. Many of the Communist leaders have retained their temporal power and authority but even when they were Communist it was merely a label for their temporal processes. This focus on materialism had a very sharp and clear detrimental effect on the Soviet Union which should be heeded in today’s economy - that of the ability of the Soviet Union to feed itself. The Soviet Union produced sufficient grain

Text Box: to feed itself without any major problems. But a main source of foreign cash for the Soviet Union was Vodka. Therefore the Soviet Union focused on producing grain for conversion into Vodka instead of producing grain for food. Thus the Soviet Unions was unable to feed itself. Today there is a world wide focus on using grain to produce ethanol to run internal combustion engines - automobiles. But the amount of corn, maize, needed to fill up an automobile’s gas tank would feed an individual for a year. If a gas tank is filled once a week, the yearly food for fifty-two people is used by one vehicle annually. The Soviet economy and people would have been better served by foregoing the sinful pursuit of foreign cash and substituting the moral pursuit of utilizing its grain assets for the purpose of feeding its people. And the sinful pursuit of money for the sake of money which will rapidly cause mass starvation, would be better replaced by the use of food for food with a prudent reserve, and the surplus over and above that reserve being used for other purposes such as ethanol. This would be a moral use of the gift of food which God has provided and which we receive through our labor. King Henry VIII lead England and Scotland away from the true Church, all-be-it the Roman Church, but still a valid part of the true Church. He did this because he desired to regulate the Sacrament of Matrimony, and because he exercised his sexual lust, both of which are sins. He declared there to be no Sacraments other than the Eucharist, retaining the Eucharist because he had written a very good defense of the Eucharist. After he died the church of England declared there is no Sacrament of the Eucharist. Lutherans began their schism from Rome with principled reasoning but quickly fell into practicing sexual lust as evidenced by the life of Martin Luther after he lead people away from the true Church. The form of the Sacraments were kept, but for the most part true Apostolic Succession was lost and with it the

Text Box: Sacraments, especially that of the Eucharist. Every Protestant religion which exists today is a religion which schismed from the church of England, or from a religion which was formed from one of those schisms from the church of England, or from the Lutheran religion. Even the Evangelicals, the Pentacostalists, and the Charismatics, were formed from religions which trace their origins to the church of England or a mixture with the Lutheran religion. Each of these “religions” is marked by internal dissention, and constant revision of church dogma which is impossible because dogma by definition comes from God and therefore is impossible to change. None of these religions has any form of sustained worship of God, but all of them have some form of entertainment, usually a combination of singing and a lecture. Some of them have voicing of “spontaneous” “inspirations” and “revelations”, but little actual worship. The one thing which all of these false religions have in common besides being false, is they all promote and practice sin. The desires of the majority override the dogmatic statements of God are given the sanction of being dogmatic expressions from God while they are merely the sinful will of the majority. Their method of operation is: if you desire to kill your unborn baby all that need be done is to get a majority of your church members to vote approval of abortion and you have the promulgation of a false dogma under the guise of Divine approval; if you desire to have sexual liaisons with numerous individuals, get that approved by your church; if you desire same gender sex, get it sanctioned as dogma by your church. All of these false religions have provisions for changing sin into a church approved and church dogmatically approved activity. But the sin remains sin because God has declared it to be sin. And the sin and sinful activity does not being happiness, but merely satiation or

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