Spiritually Golden
When we come face to face with babylon and question the spiritual prudence of supporting gold and precious metals, it may be helpful to equate peace with spirituality, and then to equate a relationship between gold / sound money and peace. Yes we have had wars while on a gold standard, but it feels to me that the standard was abandoned when the desire for war was increased, gold money became restrictive, and inconvenient.
Ron Paul:
http://www.house.gov/htbin/blog_inc?...ngdetail.shtml
In Government We Trust? Part 1
"Many who agree with me on a lot of other issues, do not understand my enthusiasm for gold and sound money or why I spend so much time studying and talking about monetary policy.
It's true that I talk about money differently than most, but the fact is sound money offers many benefits. For example – peace.
Can sound money really bring about peace? Actually, it plays a big part in peaceful international relationships. Money based on commodities, rather than paper, is not subject to government manipulation, and is a key component to free and honest trade. History shows that if countries engage in trade with each other, their governments tend to find ways to get along for the same reason you do not kill your customers at your place of business, even if they occasionally annoy you. If someone outright cheats you, however, you may engage in “war” by taking them to court, for example, and the relationship will sour. Governments and central banks with unfettered power to manipulate currency also have the ability to cheat their creditors. One way they do this is to simply create enough currency to pay off debts. This devalues the currency and “cheats” the recipient out of what they are owed. It would not be fair if you watered down your product the way our government waters down its currency, so it is not hard to understand, in these simplified terms, why loose monetary policy contributes so much to ill will and war around the world.
Sound money, on the other hand, simply is what it is."
~ Namaste / Got an Honest Politician, Supporting Gold? ~