The following was stated by Marcus Tullius Cicero, the Roman philosopher and statesman, 58 years before Christ:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
This brilliantly stated message I believe sums up the conditions which the United States is currently under.
The 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy stated something very similar to what Cicero had over two thousand years. It can be listened to in this video:
Their message is clear and defined; a nation cannot survive the treasonous actions committed by those who despise what our great nation stands for, or what used to stand for: freedom and liberty.
But should we listen to them? Should we carefully take into account these messages, or deem them as some outlandish “conspiracy theory” as some usually do without actually examining them and what they’re referring to? I believe we should, especially in an age where our social, political and economic conditions seem to be crumbling beneath our feet for no apparent reason.
When Jesus Christ was betrayed by Judas Iscariot, it was a conspiracy. During our American Revolution, when Benedict Arnold served as commander of West Point and planned on turning it over to British forces, it was a conspiracy. When the Czar of Russia was overthrown by Jewish Bolsheviks, it was a conspiracy as well. From these examples, it can be shown that history is littered with acts of conspiracy. So why would conspiracies seize to occur in our contemporary day as some think? The fact is they haven’t stopped, and they will never stop.
The world is full of evil and greed. Materialism serves as the antithesis of Christianity. It possesses human beings to conspire against one another for material goods and high seats of power at whatever cost they’re willing to take.
On this Fourth of July, the day that our nation had separated from the hands of tyranny with the blood, sweat and tears of true American patriots, make an effort to examine your country. Fill your mind with the great philosophies of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson and other supporters of liberty and freedom so that you know what your country is and what it is slowly, but surely, drifting away from due to treasonous forces within. Question everything. It is your duty as an American citizen!
Remember that God created us in his image, not in our physical appearance but through our cognitive abilities. Knowledge and reason is what makes us humans God like, so use your mind to the best of your ability.
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” – James Madison
