COMMON SENSE:

The Key to the Kingdom of Heaven

by John R. Wilkenson

Warning

Preface

Introduction

On Language,Wisdom, and the Mind

On the Words "Religion" and "Secular"

On Religion

On the Role of Religion In Political Fraud

On the Words "Theist" and "Atheist"

On God

On the Word "Authority"

On Sustainability

On Salvation

On 26 U.S.C. 501 (c)(3) Churches & Manufactured Consent

On Compulsory Education, Government Schools & Manufactured Consent

On Big Brother Media & Manufactured Consent

On Law

On Government

On Fascism

On The Big Lie

On Money (the short version)

On Why "Government" Is Inherently Evil (short version)

On Taxation

On Torture (aka "Pain Compliance")

On the Army Of God

On Judges

On Abortion

On the "Children First" propaganda

On Gay "Marriage"

On the Word "Nigger"

On Profanity

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Fascism = private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control. — Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition. I would expand that definition: fascism = private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, in which “government” is used as a “business” tool by private interests. Another way of articulating the same idea is: fascism = private ownership of government.

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Fascism = private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control. — Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, Second College Edition. I would expand that definition: fascism = private economic enterprise under centralized governmental control, in which “government” is used as a “business” tool by private interests. Another way of articulating the same idea is: fascism = private ownership of government.

“Sustainability” has become a recently new “buzz” word for "greenies". Although it seems to be used more frequently by the so-called “left” steal-and-redistribute end of the political spectrum, perhaps it is politically useful for that precise reason. Perhaps it is possible to use the word to facilitate more careful consideration of unfamiliar or underemphasized  socioeconomic ideas.

This book may have a miraculous effect on your physical and mental well-being. If you hate injustice, if you crave healing, if you need to improve your self-esteem, if you believe in liberty and justice, if you yearn for the true brotherhood of man¹, if you are a dreamer, if you are a truth seeker—or if you just want to know how the "rich keep getting richer” and the “poor keep getting poorer”—this book is for you. Read it and enjoy yourself, but do not be surprised or upset if you arrive at the end of the book having thrown off your old slave mentality in favor of your God²-given individual sovereignty.

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Just as the same twelve tones and the same diatonic keys are used repeatedly by composers of western music, so the arguments and ideas I have presented here are not new. The problem addressed by this compilation of arguments has reared its hideous hydra heads time and again throughout history. So I do not pretend to be the originator of the arguments set forth in this work.  However, much of the legal research is mine, as is the format and language. The legal battles documented in the work are real, actual, live, controversies. As I said, I cannot attempt to take credit for what has already been thought through and spoken or written by the great minds and spirits of history. The list of people like Jesus Christ, Socrates, Apostle Paul, Martin Luther, Adam Smith, John Lilburne, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, William Godwin, Henry David Thoreau, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, J.R.R. Tokien, Ludwig von Mises, Frédéric Bastiat, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, etc., etc., is virtually endless.

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Perhaps the most basic dilemma of the human race is the inherent conflict between the body's capacity to feel the pain associated with the stress and strain of living, and the mind's dislike for that pain. This fundamental conflict causes the mind to search relentlessly for information which it can utilize to escape the dilemma either by removing the causes or by negating or circumventing them. We have a tendency to needlessly complicate things from there.

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When talking about language, we are talking about communication, sharing ideas, information, thoughts and feelings. So the most logical place to begin seems to be the word "truth."  Truth = all being, all existence, all cause, all effect, all happening, past, present, and future.  Truth = reality.  Although the word "reality" is sometimes used to more strongly imply existence in the present tense, from a spiritual/intellectual viewpoint, it is misleading to use so narrow a meaning.  Truth = existence/reality.

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As many famous people such as James Madison¹, Thomas Jefferson², David Brin³, A.A. Hodge⁴, Woodrow Wilson⁵, etc, have pointed out, the reality of Nature is that there are only two kinds of government: 1) you run your own life (self-government), or 2) somebody else runs it for you (coercion/domination).

In this book, this collection of essays, you will occasionally come across sentences and paragraphs which I have simply cut and pasted from another essay. This was both handy and necessary to connect all the dots that are missing in a government-schooled "education".