Anarcho-pantelism

One large reason why many don’t attend an organized house of faith is the fear that many are only out for your money — and that fear may be true. The season after Christmas, the first quarter of the new year, often comes with the usual new “church” budget and teaching on tithings and offerings that God demanded in the Old Testament. Anarcho-pantelists don’t support tithing or offering for the same reason we don’t believe in taxes (although we pay them because the cost of not paying them is too high to avoid): there is no need for either.

Anarcho-pantelists believe that God the Father designed each new mortal with a unique combination of hands, mind, heart and ability. What we do with those talents from birth is what directly affects our futures. The Bible offers many parables, stories and examples of “reaping what you sow,” meaning what you do today will greatly affect you tomorrow, just as what you did in the past is a huge part of your current place is life. We don’t believe that God the Father actively works in anyone’s lives through miracles or “talking” to them — why would a Loving God perform miracles for some and not others? Why would a Loving God talk to some but not others? It doesn’t make sense — Biblically or visibly. Yet while we do believe in reaping what you sow, we also believe that many people fall victim to both sides of the sowing process: if you try to reap more than you sow, you will live a lifetime of enslavement to others, if you try to sow more than you can reap, you will live a lifetime of overwork and under-enjoyment of the fruits of your labors.

Many Christians believe in modern materialism combined with slavery to a bank or lender. Instead of living within their means with capital and property they can maintain without a great amount of overwork, they over-buy and spend their lives paying off what they believe is rightly theirs. The anarcho-pantelist believes you don’t really own anything: we are stewards of what we “buy” for God the Father that can not directly maintain the worldly items. If we attempt to steward more than we can maintain, we create two harmful side effects: some items will go unmaintained and fall apart, other items will go unused and not be appreciated by others who could use them in their own lives. When you buy a bigger home than you can use, you pay for it with sometimes decades of debt to pay off. Not only do you never get to enjoy the home you bought (by inviting over friends and family regularly if not daily), others have a reduced opportunity to purchase high-demand land, building materials and material needs, so they must pay a higher price. When you buy too much, you contribute to both a high burden of debt as well as a lower supply for in-demand items. When you buy just what you need, you are now in control of much less, and the market has more to provide others with lower-priced goods. This is a net benefit.

The anarcho-pantelist does NOT believe in communism or forced sharing of the assets that we can maintain in excellence. We believe in capitalism where our tools and our minds and our hearts are completely ours to use to maintain God’s property that is in our possession, but no more. We believe that no one else can tell us how much we can maintain or how much we must share with others. This is why we are against the idea of taxation. The anarcho-pantelist understands that every mortal is born with the ability to learn how much they can handle, and what they should share charitably or sell to others to handle. Not every mortal will take advantage of attempting to learn how much they can handle, but this is how God designed us — everything we sow we will reap in the future in the proper way. Those who use force will have force used against them. Those who tax will be taxed. Those who live by the sword will die by the reactions to their actions. Those who save will be prosperous, those who accept debt will be slaves. Not everyone should be equally prosperous if they continue to not learn from their actions. But no one should be forced to reap what others have sown, unless they do so out of the love of their hearts rather than force and coercion.

By only maintaining the property and tools that we can, it opens the door for new opportunities to share your lifestyle with others, helping them build a new foundation of proper stewardship of God the Father’s earth. The organized church has never been able to be a good steward for God the Father’s property. Why? Go visit a local congregation on a weekday and see how well they maintain and use the land and building that they were able to purchase through previous years of saving and hard work. Even worse, many of these organized bodies are in debt and ignore the years of servitude to others! Instead, each member of the organization should work to relinquish possessions they can not maintain or use regularly, sell the communal property of the body, and use the proceeds to extricate all of their community from slavery and debt. By reducing their future burdens, they will open their futures to sharing their lifestyles will many more, who will also learn to sow prosperity so they can reap prosperity, rather than reaping burden.