The Association of the Covenant People

There are many examples to show the old saying "History Repeats Itself " is true. We find a frightening parallel in the old Roman-modern American comparison. This article, courtesy National Chronicle, is very revealing, and worth considering. - Andy Anderson

Today America and Canada are going the way of ancient Rome. From every index to be measured, from every vantage point to be examined, the American Civilization is presently undergoing the very same frightening perils that undermined the ancient Romans and brought an end to the impregnable empire of the ancient Romans in 476 A.D.

One of the most widely read books of all times is "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". This book, written by Edward Gibbon in 1788 sets forth the basic reasons why the great civilization of ancient Rome perished in the rubble of antiquity. The writings of this great classic together with other authoritative source books on history of the ancient Romans, provided the basis for the following parallel between the Romans and the contemporary fate of our American Civilization. May God have mercy upon Americans who are barely cognizant of the terrible fate that presently hangs over them. For the sake of this formerly Christian Republic, and in the sacred promise of that Kingdom soon to come, it is our earnest hope that at least a remnant of nucleus of white Christian Nordic people will remain anchored in the early Christian heritage upon which the American civilization was established and prospered.

The decay and decline of religion. Man lost all interest in the pursuit of religion after about 350 A.D.
Higher and higher taxes to support extravagant emperors and bureaucratic government officials.
The lust for brutal sports of all kinds. The senseless shedding of blood.
The decline and collapse of the home.
Public apathy toward government was rampant.
Loss of Patriotism - the emperors forced to hire mercenary soldiers.
Importing of cheap foreign goods into the Roman cities created financial ruin for home industry.
Public, and Private Debt, - spending beyond the means of both public officials and private individuals.
Lust for Materialism - the finer things of life.
Easy living resulted in soft debilitating minds and bodies
Heavy unemployment created great unrest and resentment among the masses.
The transportation of slaves created loss of jobs and mass idleness among the Roman populace.
Mongrelizing - race-mixing very rampant in closing years of the Empire as imported slaves were assimilated into the Roman populace.
The repression of free speech and free press rigidly enforced.
Crime and violence in all forms was uncontrolled in Rome and outlying provinces.
Vast military armaments - huge sums expended in pursuit of military strength.
Soft treatment of revolutionaries operating under the protection of Roman law.
Declining birth rate among the good Roman families - with a corresponding raise in the siblings of the mob.
Rising cost of welfare - bread and circuses for the Roman mobs became an urgent necessity to keep Rome from going up in flames.
The idle rich unable to use leisure time resulted in unbelievable orgies.
The urbanization of the Roman people. Toward the end of the Roman Republic the small independent farmer forced off the land into the cities.
Political assassination rampant - in one 50 year span 26 emperors were removed by assassination.
The exhaustion of the soil - erosion washed topsoil from the fertile Roman farmlands into the Mediterranean Sea.
The loss of thrift and independence among the Roman populace.
The establishment of gigantic farming communes very common in the latter Empire era.
Immorality in all forms became rampant among all classes - from the mobs of Rome to the idle rich.
The sacred rite of marriage transformed into multiple divorce.
In the early republic each Roman family was self-sustaining on the land ... this changed to dependence upon mass production by large land holding companies.
Patriots who warned of impending danger were ridiculed and ostracized by society, i.e. Cicero, Seneca, etc.
The arrival of the Germanic tribes who could no longer be confined north of the Danube and the Rhine poured into the Roman territory and sacked the once mighty and impregnable empire.