Responsible human liberty: a standard of justice

Phil Beaver seeks to collaborate on the-objective-truth, which can only be discovered. The comment box below invites readers to write.

"Civic" refers to citizens who collaborate for individual happiness with civic integrity more than for the city, state, nation, or society.



Consider writing a personal paraphrase of the preamble, which offers fellow citizens mutual equality:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my proposal as follows: “Willing citizens collaborate, communicate, and connect to provide 5 public institutions—integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity—so as to encourage responsible human liberty to living people.” I want to collaborate with the other citizens on this paraphrase and theirs yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems no one has challenged whether or not the preamble is a legal statement. The fact that it changed this independent country from a confederation of states to a union of states deliberately managed by disciplined fellow citizens convinces me the preamble is legal. Equity in opportunity and outcome is shared by the people who collaborate for human justice.

Every citizen has equal opportunity to either trust-in and collaborate-on the goals stated in the preamble or be dissident to the agreement. I think 2/3 of citizens try somewhat to use the preamble but many do not articulate commitment to the goals. However, it seems less than 2/3 understand that “posterity” implies grandchildren. “Freedom of religion,” which fellow citizens have no means to discipline, oppresses freedom to develop integrity.



Selected theme from this week

Does the U.S. Preamble, by omission of standards of achievement, imply that its standard is the ultimately achieved extent and quality of responsible human liberty?

Columns

Honestly reading with a closed mind invites infidelity to the writing (Charles Marsala) (https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_76c9981c-317a-11ea-9a46-67c7539ad445.html)

Marsala writes “In 1856, Lee wrote to his wife during the Dred Scott Case: ‘Slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.’”

In the same paragraph, after pointing out that slavery is controlled by whatever-God-is and abolitionists err to try to change “Providence’s” time line, Lee writes, “Although the abolitionist must Know this; & must see that he has neither the right or power of operating except by moral means & suasion, & if he means well to the slave, he must not create angry feelings in the master; that although he may not approve the mode by which it pleases Providence to accomplish its purposes, the result will nevertheless be the same: that the reasons he gives for interference in what he has no Concern, holds good for every Kind of interference with our neighbours when we disapprove their Conduct; Still I fear he will persevere in his evil Course. Is it not strange that the descendants of those pilgrim fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion, have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others.”

In the past, I have read into historical records impressions I wanted to have, and I am working hard to reform. It is embarrassing to discover that R.E. Lee in 1856 knew enough to sell all he owned and move his family to a non-slave state but chose the sermons of his church ministers rather than trust his human, individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity.

R.E. Lee was a loser without my empathy, because he “invested a great political error with the sanction of more erroneous religious belief.” (See the CSA Declaration of Secession.”)

Human beings are better off developing humility-toward if not acceptance-of whatever-God-is. I look forward to the day when the USA expresses humility toward whatever-God-is rather than hubris about being blessed by God.



A confused columnist for the press (Cal Thomas) (https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/12/30/anti-trump-christians-would-you-prefer-a-president-who-supports-secular-social-agenda/)

Cal Thomas distances himself from the-literal-truth in “battle between church and state.” What US regimes practice is Chapter XI Machiavellian church-state dominance, practiced in America as a tradition inherited from England, where Canterbury has assigned seats in Parliament. See Wikipedia, “The Lords Spiritual of the United Kingdom are the 26 bishops of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords, not counting bishops who sit by right of a peerage.”

Thomas also bemuses himself with “conflict [within theism] over who supposedly speaks for God.” English colonists in America, seeking a God who would help them defeat the world’s empire wrote of “Nature and Nature’s God.” “Nature’s God” may reference Deism’s God, but I doubt it. I speculate it was the colonists’ “scholarly” expression of “whatever-God-is.” But France supplied the strategy and overwhelming military power at Yorktown VA to defeat Great Britain with the former British colonies on America’s eastern seaboard. Call 1781 France an agent of your God if you like.

In the Constitutional convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin moved that each day start with prayer but did not get a second. In September, the Committee of Style received a draft preamble that was erroneous and contained no citizens’ proposition. The U.S. Preamble makes no reference to spirituality and proposes five public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens.

Viewing the continuum of “ourselves and our Posterity,” we may comprehend that each living citizen has the duty to self to consider the U.S. Preamble and interpret its proposition so as to order civic integrity while pursuing individual happiness rather than the conditions someone or an institution would impose on him or her.

With widespread reform to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition, we might find reward by memorizing its 52 words and expressing acceptance at public events. We might consider a motto “In whatever-God-is We Trust” and perhaps restore the old motto “Out of Many One.” I fly a flag in my yard and another one over my work-space, but would prefer repeating the U.S. Preamble rather than pledging allegiance with words that conflict with the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

I do not envy Thomas’s profession. However, I wonder if he has done the work to own his interpretation of the U.S. Preamble. I urge citizens to begin with comprehension of “ourselves and our Posterity.” As deceased voters’ posterity we are the living “ourselves.” We owe it to ourselves to understand the U.S. Preamble’s 5 public disciplines in order to empower responsible human liberty to living citizens. With comprehension, civic citizens can hold all government officials accountable the U.S. Preamble.

The phrase "whatever-God-is" could help most Americans achieve the civic integrity they honestly pursue. Additionally, the phrase expresses human humility that may be required by whatever-God-is.

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A confused columnist for the press (George Will) (https://mtstandard.com/opinion/columnists/george-f-will-senate-is-a-jury-but-not-as/article_01570ba6-1d53-5427-86cb-5eee0f7de91c.html)

Forgive me for being so naïve. My hometown newspaper, The Advocate, captioned this column “How to end the malignancy in the presidency,” which I thought was nasty if not violent. The content of the column seemed honestly lacking integrity, so I looked for it online so as to comment. I found caption controversy: “Senate is a jury, but not as usually understood,” and it seems the original caption is “Senators now risk indecent exposure of their minds.” Quite tacky, even for the press.

Moreover, Will’s honest privation of integrity comes on sentences that seem conflicting. First, Will opines that the assumption that the Senate would be more reliable “became anachronistic with the emergence of political parties, direct election of senators and the eclipse of Congress by the modern presidency.” Then, Will seems to accuse Democratic Senators more harshly than Republican ones, following with “Democratic senators, too, have been complicit in creating, through sloth and carelessness, today's swollen executive, and are equally subservient to presidents of their party.”

Congress legislated away its constitutional authority and presidents have filled the gap, even creating unconstitutional regulatory judges that are outside the judicial system We the People of the United States authorized. If Will does not know this, he is also honestly ignorant. Also, Will is using the recent atrocities by most Democrats in the House, the lesser chamber of Congress to convict the Senate before their chance at integrity unfolds. The Senate can and may show that their factions are foremost members of We the People of the United States as defined in the U.S. Preamble.

I wonder how Will personally interprets the U.S. Preamble. My interpretation of those 52 abstract words is:  We the People of the United States voluntarily consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to effect 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to exemplify and encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. We accept that we are since 1788 the deceased citizens’ “Posterity” and are now the living “ourselves.” We cannot predict the standards by which our children and grandchildren will judge our progress, but have no intentions to regress. Therefore, we hold each the people; local, state, and national government-officials; and the press accountable to the U.S. Preamble’s civic, civil, and legal proposition. The US Supreme Court’s failure to the U.S. Preamble can be reformed.

It seems Will really wanted Hillary Clinton to be President. That’s OK for him, but this particular column impresses me that Will is a dissident to the U.S. Preamble. I voted for Trump/Pence twice and hope to vote for at least Trump another time or two.

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Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-biggest-hoax-in-American-society?

We the People, the special font on the parchment image has become a hoax. It is a privation to the civic, civil, and legal integrity in the USA. The actual entity and subject of the U.S. Preamble is We the People of the United States who accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. Other fellow citizens are dissidents.

The U.S. Preamble is an abstract 52-word sentence that invites living citizens to aid responsible human liberty. It’s phrase “to ourselves and our Posterity” applies to the unfolding of US history. Thus, living families are the current “ourselves” and future grandchildren and beyond are the “Posterity.” It specifies no standards of achievement, so perhaps the ultimate attainment of responsible human liberty is the standard.

Although the U.S. Supreme Court does not agree, the U.S. Preamble is a civic, civil, and legal agreement by living citizens to aid 5 public disciplines (in my view, integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity) in order to encourage responsible human liberty.

https://www.quora.com/How-could-you-define-justice?

The human individual who neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or institution is practicing justice. (Intolerance is expressed in strength commensurate with the imminence of harm: A person who might shoot you refrains, observing your commitment to shoot first.)

In a more common example, a hospital recently sent me a bill with an astonishing total, a relatively small Medicare coverage, corresponding secondary insurance coverage, huge hospital write-off, and an unexplained balance to me. I questioned the balance.

Eventually, they sent me an itemized list of “self-administered drugs.” With this information, I am now applying for Part D coverage of the expense. I feel the hospital’s failure to label the charge “self-administered drugs” reflects a lack of care for the three insurance plans for which I pay dearly—in essence, their failure to appreciate their customer.

I could have dismissed my lack of understanding and paid the bill. However, I continually questioned the charge until I learned the explanation sufficiently to file a Part D claim. Soon, I will know the outcome of this questionable hospital practice—patient-charge without explanation.

I am developing my practice of the justice principle stated above in my late seventies, but observe much younger people practicing justice.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-unacceptable-behavior-that-is-generally-tolerated-by-society?

Cultures have developed at a slower pace than technology. I think the chief problem is that political regimes encourage human beings (the only species with both acute awareness and grammar to develop integrity) to mutually pursue a higher power---a God, a government, a doctrine, or anarchy rather than develop responsible human liberty.

Neglect of a couple 2400 year-old Greek suggestions exacerbates the failures, especially widespread failure to accept the power of whatever-God-is. By accepting and being humble to whatever-God-is, individuals can relieve themselves of a contradiction: human individual power, energy, and authority (HIPEA) is sufficient to both develop integrity and to define God. In other words, in civic integrity, one citizen cannot evaluate another’s God. Individuals who try to consign their HIPEA to another entity are unlikely to accept humility to whatever-God-is. By accepting this humility as an individual, most humans would not attempt to change each other’s spirituality, whether theism is involved or not.

The two Greek suggestions, which are commentary on prior thought and open to subsequent observations, are as follows. First, a civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any person or institution. Second, civic citizens pursue equity with statutory justice; in other words, they help develop statutory law so as to approach perfection. As a consequence of these two suggestions, a just culture functions under a civic, civil, and legal agreement by willing citizens.

In the USA, citizens may accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. Five public disciplines encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. Civic citizens connect to develop equity under statutory justice.

So far, political regimes encourage citizens to consign their responsible human liberty to a higher power, empowering government officials to pick the people’s pockets with total immunity. The practice was articulated by Nicolo Machiavelli in “The Prince,” Chapter XI, published in 1513. I work to end Chapter XI Machiavellianism in the USA.

The remedy I see is to educate each newborn human to develop his or her individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA) and choose integrity to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth rather than infidelity.

https://www.quora.com/In-what-ways-is-Political-Correctness-making-America-a-better-place-to-live?

It’s a case of potential modern positives with cultures slowly, deliberately reforming from ancient negatives. From long before the Garden of Eden story, political correctness is expressed by civilizations, and dissidence invites exclusion or death.

When I was a boy I honestly tried to learn “the Christian thing to do” but my person resisted because of observable, hypocritical Christian-behavior and doctrinal controversies inside Christianity. I forgave the Christians but ultimately learned not to repeat their mistakes.

For example, I quit mimicking Mom and Dad’s smoking habits after perceiving my practice was killing me and my career: I had to stop every 5 minutes for a smoke. Fortunately for me, 36 years later my doctors saved me from lung cancer. I am cancer free and grateful to Mom and Dad for teaching me (intentionally or not) to respond to my person.

Today, the USA approaches the abyss of “one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” and may be reforming to the clarification one Nation under whatever-God-is, with responsible liberty and justice to fellow citizens and beyond.

Other nations have the liberty-to develop better disciplines (better than the U.S. preamble’s proposition) for responsible human liberty.

https://www.quora.com/Can-liberty-and-justice-be-quantified-If-yes-what-units-could-we-use-to-measure-them?

We can devise a measure of both intensity and extensity of responsible human liberty by the continuum of living citizens. In other words, continually report the quality and quantity of the population’s participation in mutual, comprehensive, safety and security. I suggest constraints on voting rights (the citizen pursues liberty with justice) to accomplish the reform.

From ancient thinkers some 2400 years ago (who commented on ideas from their “founding fathers”) we suggest some key ideas: 1) a civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any fellow citizen; 2) civic citizens pursue equity under statutory justice; 3) civic citizens observe erroneous written law even as they negotiate for statutory justice and 4) whatever-God-is honestly assigned to humankind the responsibility for civic integrity. These principles are included in a public discipline that could establish and pursue a civic culture.

An exemplary discipline is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble). It is an abstract sentence, and each citizen has the duty to self and family to consider, understand, and benefit-from his or her personal interpretation.

Comprehension of the U.S. Preamble begins with the phrase “Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” In the timeline from 1787 to today, over two centuries later, our persons and living family are “ourselves” and our descendants and future immigrants are “our Posterity.” “We, the People,” the object of a states’ rights controversy in 1787 is a privation against the entity We the People of the United States, the citizens who accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

I’d like to consider the interpretation by which you would pursue personal happiness in civic integrity rather than submit to the happiness someone or other entity would impose on you. My interpretation, for my way of living only is:  We the People of the United States voluntarily consider, communicate, collaborate and connect to establish and maintain 5 public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens.

The U.S. Preamble leaves open the mystery of whatever-God-is, creating undeniable humility toward that entity. In fact no standards of achievement are specified. Perhaps the motivation and inspiration is responsible human liberty itself.

Since together we fellow citizens are in charge, is not necessary, essential, or demanding for living citizens to understand what the Committee of Style meant by creating words that can be interpreted as I do or you do. We can each have our idea for discussion and thereby connect with each other. By learning from each other, our votes for government officials can be for individual, personal benefit rather than to benefit an organization, and the consequence may mutually serve each of us. Thereby, we can hold government officials accountable to the U.S. Preamble.

The question is, what constitutes “us.” It’s the fellow citizens who voluntarily accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition and behave according to personal happiness with civic integrity. Other fellow citizens are either dissidents to liberty under statutory justice, or aliens, or traitors. The human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity rather than drift into infidelity, and HIPEA cannot be consigned.

Progress toward human liberty and justice can be measured with the following provisions. First, only fellow citizens who demonstrate that they live according to their personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble may vote in local, state, or national elections. Second, the data on voter qualifications is published. Third, the growth in voter registration shows the increase/decrease in responsible human liberty in the USA.

Because of the wonder of trade, friendly countries might create public discipline of by and for responsible human liberty more clearly than the U.S. Preamble’s 52 words and thereby increase mutual, comprehensive safety and security worldwide.

However, the key to the U.S. Preamble’s excellence is that it leaves to the individual living citizen the standards for personal happiness with civic integrity. Thereby, the benefit of majority, voluntary acceptance of the U.S. Preamble is unknown if not infinite.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-government-good?

The government is good because it provides a field where individuals may develop opposites: various forms of integrity versus infidelity to the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth; for example, appreciation versus hatred.

From the humanoids, there has developed a branch of humans with both awareness and grammar by which to develop human equity under written law. The leading edge of the species is developing statutory justice, a political perfection which may be approachable but not reachable because actual reality is ever unfolding.

In the USA, there is an undeveloped, achievable culture that is proposed in the preamble to the US Constitution, hereafter the U.S. Preamble. It is an abstract 52-word sentence which each citizen ought to contemplate enough to develop a personal interpretation by which to order his or her civic, civil, and legal life in order to responsibly pursue individual happiness with civic integrity rather than submit to the happiness other people might prescribe for him or her.

My interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition today follows:  We the People of the United States voluntarily consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to establish and maintain five public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. Our posterity will judge our standards of performance.

The U.S. Preamble’s proposal is neutral to spirituality, race, ethnicity, gender, and wealth. The five public disciplines separate fellow citizens into responsible libertarians, dissidents to the proposal, aliens, and traitors. Public discussion of unjust written law promotes discovery and acceptance of statutory justice. The majority practice of responsible liberty encourages dissidents to reform and lessens the need for coercion and force to constrain aliens and reject traitors.

Without the coercion and force of government under written law, the first public steps in responsible human liberty---consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect---are not likely.

https://www.quora.com/What-part-of-Shall-not-be-infringed-does-the-government-not-understand?

Referring to the U.S. Preamble, most fellow citizens do not perceive that “our Posterity” to deceased citizens is the living citizens at any point in the progress of time. Thus, to our children, grandchildren, and beyond we are the living “ourselves.”

Our votes are critical for correcting the observable errors committed by the deceased citizens, and their votes are no longer involved in the civic debate. That is, fellow citizens may consider the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth and vote for mutual, comprehensive safety and security.

None of the past political regimes have promoted individual interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. We work to change that, and invite you to respond in this thread with your interpretation that accommodates your pursuit of individual happiness.

For example, my interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition today (for personal practice rather than to impose on fellow citizens) follows: We the People of the United States voluntarily consider, communicate, collaborate, and connect to establish and maintain five public disciplines---integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity---so as to encourage responsible human liberty to the continuum of living citizens. Our posterity will measure our standards of performance.

By voting for responsible human liberty, the entity We the People of the United States can hold the people; local, state, and national government officials; the press; and the U.S. Constitution’s articles and amendments accountable to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. The challenge is to persuade at least 2/3 of fellow citizens to accept responsible human liberty and practice the U.S. Preamble’s public disciplines if not better.

https://www.quora.com/Which-laws-are-meaningless-to-you?

Civic cultures should consider and accept the U.S. Preamble’s human proposition or better.

Starting with a couple Greek ideas from 2400 years ago, every written law is meaningful to me. However, the importance of some laws is that they must be reformed so as to approach statutory justice. Again, a Greek example supports my point.

Socrates was falsely convicted and sentence to either death or exile. He sacrificed his life to uphold the rule of law. He also expressed the need to reform the judiciary process so that it is conducted under the-literal-truth rather than fear of the unknown. In my view, he made the point that individuals who kill each other over their Gods rebuke whatever-God-is.

The jury would not have erred in the trial of Socrates had they used the other two Greek suggestions, presented here in my interpretation. First, citizens can develop human equity under statutory justice; each time an injustice is discovered, the law can be amended toward justice. Second, the civic citizen neither initiates nor tolerates harm to or from any human individual or public institution; being intolerant of harm takes the form of strength under attack or verbal/written expression.

Accepting these 2400 year old Greek suggestions, a culture could use the-objective-truth if not the-literal-truth to discover statutory justice rather than relying on human fear, coercion, and force. A culture of responsible human liberty would follow the Greek ideas for two reasons: responsibility rests with both the individual citizen and the inhabitants in the culture, and the human individual has the power, the energy, and the authority (HIPEA) to develop integrity. Each newborn human needs 1) community encouragement to develop responsible human liberty and 2) public safety and security so that he or she may enter young adulthood with the understanding and intent to live a complete life with integrity instead of allowing infidelity to creep in and flourish. 

Turning now to the U.S. Constitution, these Greek principles, perhaps intentionally, are intrinsic/ inherent to the citizens’ proposition that is offered in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble) as I practice it. The 39 delegates who signed the 1787 U.S. Constitution had experienced the framing of the world’s first government predicated on public discipline in order to encourage responsible human liberty to living citizens. The five public disciplines are integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity. In over 230 years, the USA has come to 2020 political chaos because political regimes have not promoted the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

With that, let me address some meaningful reforms in the law: 1) the U.S. Supreme Court justices may each accept that they are each citizens and have the citizen’s choice to ether join the entity We the People of the United States or not; 2) the U.S. Supreme court may promote the U.S. Preamble as the USA’s public contract for human equity under developing statutory justice; 3) the First Amendment may be revised so as to encourage civic integrity, a human duty, rather than religion, an institutional business; 4) the First Amendment may be revised to clarify that only responsible speech according to the-objective-truth is protected; and 5) laws that are clearly intended to a preserve colonial-British tradition are to be revised if necessary so as to comport to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

As an illustration of this last point, unanimous jury-verdicts in criminal trials is perhaps an erroneous colonial American idea developed from British controversy over how to provide impartial trials. With a demographic that is split 50:50, impartial trial results are favored with a 7:5 or better 5:4 verdict rule. In 1967, England adopted a 10:2 rule in order to lessen organized crime’s influence in criminal trials. Most former British colonies favor impartiality over unanimity in jury verdicts.

This American reform may seem impossible at first glance. However, now that it has been proposed, We the People of the United States may hold local, state, and national governments as well as the so-far unfettered press to the U.S. Preamble’s proposition.

The individual process starts with doing the work to discover your personal interpretation of the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. A head start is gained by doing the work to perceive that the so-called founding fathers’ “our Posterity” is the living citizens who accept the U.S. Preamble’s proposition. Thus, the “ourselves” is living citizens as time progresses who choose to be of the entity We the People of the United States: in 2020, us. Other fellow citizens are dissidents to equity under statutory justice and candidates for reform. Aliens and traitors need to be rejected by We the People of the United States.

https://www.quora.com/Are-you-ready-to-get-rid-completely-of-the-free-will-but-having-world-peace-health-equality-and-being-100-controlled-by-God?

I don’t accept the premise of your question.

I accept whatever-God-is, work hard to behave accordingly, and think I am developing integrity rather than infidelity.

There is no way I would turn my back on whatever-God-is by either believing my ideas as the-objective-truth approaching the-literal-truth or adopting ideas from any human being or human institution.

Susan M Wellman

How can you accept whatever-God-is without knowing what God is? Also how can you behave accordingly without knowing what God requires of you? Since you do not claim to know what God is, I assume that you discount the Bible as His revelation. What if it really is the revelation of the true God? Then you have turned your back on Him by rejecting His words.

Years ago I was healed during a session of prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, after 23 years of being disabled by lupus. How could that happen if there is no God? Please consider this evidence. I do not come to this site to lie. Why would I do so?

You might say, “What about the thousands who are not healed?” I was one of them until I repented of my sins. There is a book called “A More Excellent Way” by Pastor Henry Wright. After years of praying for people to be healed, mostly without success, he told God he could not continue until God told him what was missing. Over time, God revealed to him that the missing piece was sincere repentance of sin. When I did what God required, my prayers were answered.

The chances of me being healed during that particular hour of my adult life was over 200,000 to one.

Phil Beaver

I would not change your faith for anything. Nor would I change mine.

Let me turn your questions upside down: Does Phil have to know what God is to accept God? Does Phil have to explain the fallacies in the Bible to accept God? Is whatever-God-is powerful enough to accept Phil’s person?

For all I know, when my body, mind, and person stop functioning, I will face judgement by Jesus of the New Testament. I don’t think I will but am prepared for it..

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Donald Trump's message to other nations---take care of your citizens, because the USA under my administration will not do so---has a nuance to the individual citizen: Have and practice your individual interpretation of the preamble to the U.S. Constitution (the U.S. Preamble).

Citizens who do not have an interpretation might take urgent interest after considering the 1787 phrase "Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." At any time, living citizens are the "ourselves" and the "our Posterity" includes citizens' children, grandchildren, and beyond. We-recent ourselves have saddled our posterity with $23 trillion national debt and unmaintained local infrastructure.

Few of us accept the U.S. Preamble as a divider: We the People of the United States as civic citizens with other fellow citizens, including dissidents, aliens, and traitors.

Past political regimes have repressed the entity We the People of the United States, with "We, the People," which involves neither the statutory justice that is ineluctably pursued under the U.S. Preamble nor the responsible human freedom to hold local, state, and national government-officials accountable.

Phil Beaver does not “know.” He trusts in and is committed to the-objective-truth which can only be discovered. Conventional wisdom has truth founded on reason, but it obviously does not work.

Phil is agent for A Civic People of the United States, a Louisiana, education non-profit corporation. See online at promotethepreamble.blogspot.com, and consider essays from the latest and going back as far as you like.