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primary responsibility over their children.
6. Over the years, because of aging, responsibility shifts from
parents to children.
7. Responsibility is therefore reciprocal over time.
8. Parents and children have mutual responsibilities over
time.
9. The eldest son receives a double portion: of the inheritance
and of responsibilit y for caring for aged parents.
10. The Bible teaches the continuity of capital over generations.
11. Family capital is less likely to be wasted.
12. Wealth flows toward provident and productive people in a
free society.
13. Parents must train children in competence and character if
family capital is to be increased over generations.
14. Compound economic growth produces huge increases in
wealth and productivity if even small increases go on for centuries.
15. Christians should view capital as a trust from God, to be
handed down and multiplied over time.
16. There are two rival families today: the state and the Christian
family unit.
17. The state is increasingly increasing its power and influence
(through tax spending) over matters once directed by families and
especially fathers.
18. Citizens are seen by state bureaucrats as perpetual slaves
and perpetual children.
19. The state has become a kidnapper.
20. The state is destroying the inheritance of families through
taxation and controls.
21. The state is squandering the nation’s capital.
22. Social, political, and economic bankruptcies are coming
when the state can no longer pretend to be God.
23. Christians must abandon the religion of humanism.
24. They must abandon their belief in the state as the true family.