We explore real-life reformation here in this informed, online community.
Some positive lessons, and some negative, like this important lesson:
In 1980, Reagan opened the border "both
ways” so that immigrants could cross and work
with visas and pay taxes with almost
unrestricted travel.
His object was to help short-term economic migrants.
In 1982, the Supreme
Court forbade schools to deny services based
on illegal immigration status.
So then illegals flooded-in to game the system.
The crime problem grew. In 1986, Reagan tried a remedy by giving the biggest amnesty in U.S. history,
which legalized a small number of illegal aliens. But this error created the margin of welfare recipients which turned California from a strongly Republican state to a Democrat state with even larger welfare programs, higher taxes and power-hungry bureaucrats, and an ever-growing illegal alien problem.
Even Marine Le Pen’s recent statements track this line: personal Islamic practice is compatible with the Republic; replacing French law with Sharia is not. French Muslims who are simply citizens practicing their "religious faith" “have no reason to worry” about a Le Pen election victory.
But can one be a practicing Muslim without demanding and practicing Sharia?
Eph 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Eph 3:21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Serious numbers of migrants arrived in Massachusetts from 1630 - 1640. Roughly 21,000. By 1700 they had become 91,000. Their immediate priorities: having families, building farms, forming towns, and building institutions Old England never developed on local levels. But the new Americans didn’t just reproduce the country they left. They built institutions England didn’t yet have.
Year 1 — a seagoing vessel launched at Medford, 4 July 1631. The shipwrights had been sent out in 1629, ahead of the fleet.
Year 4 — representative government. Elected deputies sitting in the General Court.
Year 6 — Harvard. £400 voted for “a schoale or colledge.”
Year 8 — a printing press, the only one in British North America. Glover died on the voyage out; his widow Elizabeth moved the operation to Cambridge and got it running.
Year 10 — the Bay Psalm Book, the first book printed in America.
Year 11 — the Body of Liberties, read aloud at every General Court.
Year 12 — the 1642 law: every ...
