Part II - The Corporate Strawman, CORPORATE AMERICA vs the 10 Commandments

Did you know that the Pilgrims and most other early English settlers who came to America were employees of a corporation? A corporation is a group of people who cooperate (incorporate) to form a company; generally, to do business and make money. The early colonists were hired to settle an area of North America and make money from whatever they could take from the land.

Legally speaking, a corporation has many of the same legal rights as an individual citizen – it can be thought of as a symbolic person that is sometimes referred to as a corporate strawman.

Imagine for a moment that the actions of the European immigrants who settled America were those of a single symbolic individual – the corporate strawman. Imagine that corporate person is symbolized as say - this image of Uncle Sam.

I will use this illustration of America as a corporate person to shed light on the historical fiction that allows so many Americans to believe that America was created as a Christian Nation, that is, doing the works of CHRIST as opposed to observing a nominal (in name only) religion as part of a national culture.

Let’s look at the actions of Uncle Sam throughout his history and compare those actions to the Ten Commandments; the basic rules of right and wrong given to Moses by GOD in the BIBLE. Exodus 20. Let’s look at each commandment and see how the American corporate strawman has broken every one of God's Commandments in creating and preserving this nation.

The 10 Commandments - simplified and paraphrased:

1. You shall not have or worship any god other than the GOD of the BIBLE.
2. You shall not make any idols and worship them (carved images or statues representing false gods or anything else).
3. You shall not take GOD’s name in vain (use it in any unrighteous or disrespectful way).
4. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy (take worshipping GOD seriously).
5. Honor your father and mother (symbolic obedience to GOD).
6. You shall not steal.
7. You shall not kill.
8. You shall not commit adultery.
9. You shall not falsely accuse anyone (especially in a way that hurts them legally or emotionally)
10. You shall not covet (illegally want anything that doesn’t belong to you).

JESUS simplified these laws even further in the New Testament:

Love GOD with your entire personality and love your neighbor as yourself. Mat 22:36 When related to the Old Testament, it means obey GOD out of love (Commandments 1-5), and prove your love for GOD by loving your neighbor (i.e., don't do things that injure others - Commandments 6-10).

America and the 10 Commandments

1. The first commandment - You shall have no other gods before me (meaning alongside, or instead of the GOD of the BIBLE).

Anything you serve as enthusiastically as you serve GOD is an idol. It is a GOD to you. If your real preoccupation in life is your station in society and how much money you have - that is an idol - your true God. American patriotism has become an idol for many American christians because they have been taught that America was formed as a christian nation.

The US of America was formed by a hostile corporate takeover. The so-called founding fathers stole the American corporation from England via rebellion and murder (the revolutionary war).

Most of the founding fathers were not Christians

The founders, for the most part, were not Christians. Regardless of the lies of those who would have us believe so today, history demonstratively shows that people like Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Paine, etc., were deists. Deists claim to believe in a distant god that created things and then went away. They may have believed in a god but they did not respect the GOD of the BIBLE. In fact, Jefferson and Paine explicitly wrote about their hatred of the GOD of the BIBLE – but not until the common people had been fooled by their patriotic propaganda into supporting the revolution and the takeover had been accomplished.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution created America as a godless corporation according to their own beliefs – Masonry and deism. They allowed the average person to believe that somehow it was all done for righteousness sake via the highly deceptive documents they created to conceal their treachery. They were claiming to seek freedom from a supposedly terrible injustice; what amounted to a trivial amount of taxation, while they themselves hypocritically beat, starved and imprisoned innocent people as slaves for life.

2. You shall not make idols or worship them.

Nationalism and patriotism are idols. Weren’t we taught to pray to the flag; vainly reciting a loyalty oath called the Pledge of Allegiance?

The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Putting GOD’s name alongside the lie that there was ever “liberty and justice for all” in America is an outrageous blasphemy. The pledge at one time even incorporated a nazi-like salute, which was discontinued during WWII. National patriotic references to GOD were mostly added in the 1950’s as anti-communist political sloganeering. There is nothing in the Bible that encourages us to love and worship the country that we were born in, alongside of GOD. The formula “GOD and country” is simply not BIBLICAL. GOD LOVES EVERYBODY – lines on a map have nothing to do with eternity. Google “patriotic bible verses” and every one that you see will be so far out of context as to be a willful misinterpretation – a lie. Americanism, all the basic god bless the flag type stuff, is idolatry.

3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

Taking the LORD's name in vain (using GODs name in a pointless disrespectful way) isn't just blaspheming / disrespecting GOD by saying GD or OMG or the like.

Using the BIBLE to justify evil is taking GOD’s name in vain

GOD’s name is also used in vain when it is evoked to justify evil. Using willfully misinterpreted BIBLE scripture as a lie to justify your evil actions is really using God's name in vain. Beginning with the pilgrims, Americans have mercilessly exploited their victims in their quest for riches. Americans used BIBLE verses to justify the horrific evils of slavery, land theft, and mass murder. “A gun in one hand and a BIBLE in the other” used to be their blasphemous boast.

Using GOD’s WORD and therefore HIS HOLY NAME to justify Indian genocide, land theft, manifest destiny, chattel slavery, racism, and modern imperialism is a horrible blasphemy. It is using GOD's name in the worst way imaginable – because it causes people who don’t know GOD to hate HIM because of the hypocrisy of his self-proclaimed representatives. Saying that because America is a christian country, whatever it does is justifiable, is a lie from the pit of hell. Just because GOD allows something – doesn’t mean HE approves of it, and that HE won’t eventually bring judgment.

4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Jesus taught us that GOD gave mankind a day of rest, the sabbath, as a symbolic act of mercy. No one, not even animals, were supposed to work on the sabbath. It was an indication that GOD wanted us to show mercy to each other. According to JESUS, the religious hypocrites of his day condemned him to death because, like the Puritans, they didn’t understand that the spirit of the law was mercy. America has been utterly merciless to the people it exploited and continues to exploit; blasphemously using the BIBLE to justify worldliness and greed.

5. Honor your father and your mother.

Honoring your father and mother is symbolic of honoring and obeying GOD. To the true Christian, GOD is your Father. “Our FATHER” is how JESUS taught us to address HIM. JESUS called believers who were willing to do GODs will, his brothers, sisters and mother, i.e., Christians who act according to the WORD are symbolically the blood relatives of CHRIST. JESUS said that the greatest commandment was to love GOD and love your neighbor as yourself. People who say they are christians but do whatever they want, are dishonoring GOD and the body of CHRIST. Symbolically speaking, they are dishonoring their FATHER (GOD) and their mother (the church). So, did America honor GOD and love its neighbor when it destroyed anyone who stood in its path to riches – then and now?

6. You shall not murder.

Columbus was not an American, but our history books presented him as the original American Hero. Columbus set the tone for how Europeans would deal with the Natives Americans and with the Africans they would bring. According to everything we know, Columbus genocidally exploited the natives he encountered in an insane, demonically driven quest for gold. Three million Taino Indians were living on Hispaniola when Columbus landed. Fifty years later, there were less than 11,000. Columbus and his men cruelly tortured and murdered the Indians in ways that are unimaginable to modern people – enslaving the natives and trying to make them produce gold in quantities that didn’t exist on the island. This isn’t some SJW revisionist history fantasy, this information is from eye witness accounts, books written, and charges made against Columbus while he was still alive.

This pattern was later repeated throughout the English colonies, first trying to force the Indians to be slaves, and then finally just killing them to steal their land – murdering millions. Millions of Africans were also killed transporting them to the new world to steal their labor. America continues this pattern today by starting wars to destabilize entire nations so corporations can go in and take control of their resources. If the people resist, they are called terrorists or revolutionaries and slaughtered. This is the real meaning of spreading democracy – just like the ancient Roman empire – America uses it primarily offensive military to make it safe for US corporations to economically invade and dominate weaker countries. Millions were killed in Vietnam and Iraq. Almost everyone pretends not to see this for fear of being called unpatriotic or not “supporting the troops”.

7. You shall not commit adultery.

Adultery and fornication (sexual sins) symbolize idolatry in the BIBLE, because GOD’s people (the church) are symbolically married to GOD in a love relationship. The church (Israel) was/is said to be committing adultery when they were worshiping gods other than the GOD of the BIBLE. You should be getting the idea by now that America loves money as its true god. Supposedly christian America continues its adultery against GOD by idolizing Americanism instead of holding America to a real Christian standard and admitting its past sins.

8. You shall not steal.

Did you know that the Bible points to slavery, under the name of manstealing, as one of the worst sins possible? In 1 Timothy 1:8, a verse that I have never heard specifically mentioned in any church, by any preacher, black or white, the apostle Paul says the manstealer (a slaver who steals a man’s liberty and sells him into a life of involuntary servitude) is as evil and depraved as someone who would murder their own parents. Everyone who participated in slavery, from the capture gang to the slave owner, is damned by this verse. Are we so brainwashed with patriotism and hypocrisy that we cannot see the plain BIBLE truth right in front of our faces? How could this verse be a surprise when JESUS tells us that the greatest commandment in the universe is to Love GOD and demonstrate that love by loving your neighbor in the same way that you want GOD to love you – by showing mercy.

Uncle Sam stole the land and the persons of the Indians and Africans in one of the great genocides of human history. In Tit 1:16, we see the true character of the American corporate man:

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

9. You shall not bear false witness (perjury / false testimony) against your neighbor.

Lying against anyone, especially in a way that harms them – legally or socially, is against GOD's law. Lies that cause prejudice and injustice are a form of false witness. Blaming the victim by bearing false witness against him has been the way that America has traditionally avoided repentance and created self-justifications for every sin against its victims - namely the native Americans and the formerly enslaved Africans.

10. You shall not covet (want).

Wanting things makes people do evil. Loving money causes people to break all the other commandments trying to get it – including destroying other people and selling their souls outright. Why does anyone make a pact with the devil other than to get what they want in this life?

Exodus 20:17: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s. With the Catholic “Doctrine of Discovery” enshrined in American law, white Americans claimed to have the right to “discover,” conquer, and take the land of non-christian peoples. They stole the land and people’s bodies, including stealing women and children for sexual exploitation – rape. This aspect of slavery was so commonplace that it was famously indulged in by both Washington and Jefferson with little or no moral disapproval from historians for more than 200 years. Slavery was in fact, a life sentence of brutal torture, starvation, rape and murder for the majority of enslaved Africans in America. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote that plantation owners only gave the enslaved enough food and shelter to keep them "operating", i.e., alive and working. Farm animals often had better conditions.

America’s love of money

The case against America can be reduced to one BIBLE verse – the love of money is the root of all evil. 1 Tim 6:10 Money is just a thing, a concept of value. It is the love of money that causes people to do evil. Europeans came to the new world knowing the difference between right and wrong but they consistently chose to do evil for the sake of self-interest. Despite the ridiculous claims that they didn’t know any better, the settlers had the same BIBLE as we do. In fact, it was the English Puritans that encouraged King James to commission his BIBLE.

Starting with Columbus, American colonists were committed to a program of genocide and slavery. Even the Puritans, who claimed christianity, justified their materialism with a vicious mix of racial pride and hypocritical theocracy. They vilified and murdered the Indians to steal their land and enslaved stolen Africans - saying that anyone who came to them as a slave would remain a slave  - that it would not be their sin. Chattel slavery was a pillar of the Constitution; determining representation in congress and demanding, by federal law, that escaped slaves be returned to their legal owners - contrary to the BIBLE. Deu 23:15

So, is America a christian nation? Calling yourself a christian does not make you a Christian. Doing the works of JESUS makes you a Christian but the American corporate man has done just the opposite. Long ago, Sam sold his soul for the love of money.

Sam’s GOD is money.