Religious-tyranny is defeating civic-integrity

 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 appreciation:  For discussion, I convert the preamble’s predicate phrases to nouns and paraphrase it for my interpretation of its proposal as follows We the People of the United States proffer & practice 5 public disciplines —- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage & facilitate responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”. I want to improve my interpretation by listening to other citizens and their interpretations yet would preserve the original, 1787, text, unless it is amended by the people.

It seems the Supreme Court occasionally refers to it, and 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.

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Religious-tyranny is defeating civic-integrity

So far, quoting the founders’ 1776 declaration of independence from England, “the good People of [these United States]” have accommodated unconstitutional state-partnering with church, imposed by the 1789 Congress in the 1791 First Amendment and upheld by the Supreme Court as “Anglo-America religious-tradition”.

In Greece v Galloway (2014), the justices labeled my concern “niggling”.

Necessity& justice hold human being accountable to provide peace on earth. In other words, human-being can constrain chaos in life. This principle has been plain for 5,000 of homo sapiens’ 300,000 years’ psychological development. It is a self-interest to practice responsible-human-independence (RHI).

What are the fruits of the recent 5,000 years’ psychological development? Monotheism emerged 4,000 years ago, politically competitive unto war and chaos. Chaos diverged in the last 68 years.

The 7 billion people in the world are religiously divided: 31.2% Christians, 24.1% Muslims, 16% unaffiliated, 15.1% Hindus, 6.9% Buddhists, 5.7% Folk religion, 0.8% other religion, and 0.2% Jews (pewforum. org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/).Globally, there are 45,000 Christian denominations, 5 Islam branches, and 10 Jewish movements. In the U.S., there are 200 Christian denominations.

It seems self-evident that civic integrity is repressed when citizens expect personal-God to provide them safety& security --- to usurp personal-duty. It seems equally obvious that the-God that controls consequences of individual choices cannot usurp personal-responsibility. In other words, without reserving suitable-appreciation to the-God, a person is not likely to accept responsible-human-independence (RHI).

I think the only human right a government must assure is the citizen’s opportunity to develop the humble-integrity that is required to practice RHI. People who are gullible to government power lose personal opportunity to develop their unique person’s happiness rather than submit to bureaucratic opinion for them.

We, the 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” may amend the First Amendment, in order to facilitate civic-RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity” rather than accommodate civil-religion to Congress and the Supreme Court. When we accomplish it, the universe will celebrate.

 

Quora

https://www.quora.com/Where-would-you-rank-the-United-States-in-terms-of-quality-of-life-and-general-freedoms-in-the-list-of-167-Democratic-nations? by Lou DeMauro

The USA, not a democracy but a republic, is No. 1, in both intentions and performance, even though the faction We the People of the United States never established the intended national independence. The 1789 Congress regressed to Anglo-American church-in-state and codified the partnership in the 1791 Bill of Rights.

The intended representative republic with federalism is specified in the 1787 U.S. Constitution, a draft to be ratified by, quoting the 1776 declaration of independence from England, “the good People” of at least 9 states. The civic faction We the People of the United States would practice 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, peace, justice, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” encourage, facilitate, and practice responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”, including legal immigrants. Framers assigned religious-discipline to adult-personal-privacy, and posterity’s Posterity may discover ineluctable-necessity& statutory-justice.

Most U.S. citizens and no alien could articulate an opinion to suggest improvement to mine. Yet most U.S. citizens practice a kindred civic-integrity, where “civic” refers to reliability in human connections more than observation of civil rules.

This political wonder works for the civic-citizen, who practices RHI; for their state if RHI dominates; and for the nation when RHI holds the legislative, judicial, and administrative branches accountable to the abstract U.S. preamble.

The world will celebrate when the faction We the People of the United States amend the First Amendment so as to promote civic-integrity rather than civil-religion. Achievable better futures will emerge across the globe, and democracies will appreciate the U.S.A.’s republican form of government.

https://www.quora.com/Is-civil-disobedience-morally-justifiable? by Akihiko Yuri

No.

Especially not in AMO soldiering.

For necessity& justice, human-being both observes the law and reduces injustice by supporting reliable legislative amendments.

These principles have been known for 3 – 5 thousand years of homo sapiens’ 300,000 years’ psychological development. Practice requires individual responsible-human-independence (RHI) --- civic-citizenship. “Civic” means reliable human connections – beyond municipal rules.

However, being human is subjective – a choice. Some individuals choose a dependency, such as: reliance on “higher power”, indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime, evil, tyranny, and worse. They leave it to civic-citizens to both maintain& pursue justice.

Defying the law is a subjective act in 2 ways: 1) inviting self-subjugation to law-enforcement and 2) suffering possible opposing-opinion of civic-citizens. The civic alternatives are to 1) argue that the law is unjust, propose a well-grounded amendment, and solicit fellow-citizens’ improvements or 2) leave the jurisdiction. Socrates chose death to uphold unjust adjudication.

Individuals who volunteer as soldiers to Alinsky-Marxist organizations (AMO) enslave themselves to someone else’s cause. They invite personal-subjugation to the justice system while the organizers, mayors, and governors claim they did not authorize the mob’s passions.

The human-being nether initiates nor accommodates harm/injury to-or-from any person or association.

Consequently, a civic-citizen holds fellow-citizens in political office --- local, state, and federal --- to RHI under the U.S. Constitution.

https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-for-something-to-be-bad-Is-it-because-it-is-not-supposed-to-be-done-or-it-is-what-the-society-world-doesnt-want-to-be-doing? by Lula Akpan

The greatest harm is that our cultures do not inculcate in individuals the principle that the-God cannot usurp human-being’s independent responsibility to provide order& prosperity to this world and its living species. Individuals who get that principle are civic-citizens.

A civic-citizen’s greatest power is that they neither initiate nor accommodate harm to-or-from any individual or institution. A civic-citizen acts on necessity& justice rather than appetite& infidelity.

https://www.quora.com/Is-politics-and-law-in-western-civilization-ruled-by-left-of-center-fraud? by John William Milner

Maybe so. If so, I think the reckoning with the domestic faction We the People of the United States is under way, especially with the Democrat Party’s drive to accelerate the national debt (now approaching $29 trillion in a world with $300 trillion debt). However, there remains a longstanding problem: rule of law under freedom of religion.

I am warry of a long-entrenched tyranny over the minds of the West and, unconstitutionally, the U.S.: religion – specifically theism --- especially the abundant Christianities --- 45,000 denominations globally and 200 sects in the U.S.; Why does Christianity have so many denominations?. Beware Christianity’s power to divide human-being.

Human-being is too individually powerful, energetic, and authoritative (HIPEA) to accept less than either responsible-human-independence, or cunning-dependency. The dependencies include religion, indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. Dependents invite subjugation to law& order. One of the most insidious dependencies is “original sin”, a false human-construct that attempts to resist Genesis 1:28.

Three of humankind’s documents proffer a culture of domestic discipline that fosters responsible-human-independence (RHI). The suggestion comes from a political philosophy 5,000 years ago. In terms consistent with what humankind since then has experienced& observed, the suggestion is: Female& male-human-being may independently constrain chaos in this world. That is to say, no external power can prevent human-being from providing order& prosperity to the world and its inhabitants.

Events after that led to African kings selling slaves to European kings in the fifteenth century. The African slave-trade peaked when England colonized the North American eastern-seaboard. In 1763, English enslavement of “the good People of these Colonies” to be their slave-caretakers became undeniable. In 1776, uSA founders declared war for independence from England, citing for human authority “Nature’s God” instead of the Anglo-American Trinity and for military sanction “the Supreme Judge of the world”.

The founders’ 1776 separation of church and state was consistent with Genesis 1:28, reported almost 3,000 years earlier, in the scribe’s opinion, about that 5,000 year-old political philosophy. Thus, about 2,500 years separate the second document from the first, respectively. And separate the second document from the ancient suggestion by 3,500 years.

The 1776 founders could not fathom dual desires: to both win independence from their oppressor and to emancipate the slaves Europe had imposed to the colonists’ responsibility.

With military providence from France, uSA independence was won. But the 13 free& independent states could function neither domestically nor globally.

The third document came just eleven years after the second. In 1787, delegates from 12 states framed a representative republic predicated on “the good People” managing both their states and a weak central government. Five domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity may empower RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Pursuit of religion/none is a private choice, and standards for each of the 5 disciplines and RHI may be discovered by the continuum: ourselves and our posterity. With 8 slave states and 5 non-slave states, the framers also left slave-emancipation to the future.

However, after operations began in March, 1789, politicians imposed the legislative tyranny “freedom of religion”, incidentally or intentionally re-instituting erroneous, factional-Christian support for black slavery (see R.E. Lee letter to wife, December 1856). Beware diverse Christianity: Perhaps interpreting the Ethiopian Tewahedo Christian Canon can readily suggest white slavery. The U.S. Supreme Court defies Genesis 1, the 1776 Declaration, and the 1787 Constitution. Their latest arrogance is expressed in the weak opinion “Greece v Galloway” (2014). Therein, the justices label my objections “niggling”. I think the-God rejects the Court’s claim.

The good people in these states, the members of We the People of the United States, may amend the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution so as to encourage RHI, responsible-human-independence, to the continuum ourselves and our Posterity according to the 3 key documents suggested above, rather than extend the 1791 legislative tyranny “freedom of religion”.

https://www.quora.com/What-exactly-is-wrong-with-Ayn-Rands-philosophies-on-Objectivism-Technically-if-everyone-has-the-self-in-mind-then-they-would-know-treating-others-as-they-wish-to-be-treated-supplies-a-mutual-safety-net-of-self-and? by Lise Rosenbaum

Google says “Rand described Objectivism as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute".

I think necessity& justice inform human-being that each person may practice responsible-human-independence and encourage& facilitate fellow-citizens in the self-interest and individual-personal-happiness that can be so achieved.

Fellow citizens don’t want others analyzing how they want to be treated: they want privacy.

https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-reasons-to-support-states-rights? by Dhruval Patel

Preserving states’ rights is critical to preserving each citizens’ opportunity to discover HIPEA (see https://www.abbreviations.com/HIPEA).

In 1787, only 12 of 13 former English colonies participated in framing the constitution for this republican form of government. The U.S. started operations in 1789 with only eleven states, with jurisdiction on about 12% of today’s land mass of 50 states.

Much of the rest of the land was under Spanish, Mexican, or French governance.

Under Napoleonic code, Louisiana was much more accommodating to blacks and other minority groups. When Reconstruction ended in 1678, a smart Frenchman showed that a majority vote by a jury of peers is more likely to render impartiality than a unanimous vote. In 1880, Louisiana enacted 9:3 criminal-jury verdicts instead of the English tradition 12:0. In 1967, England, the originator of the unanimous jury, enacted 10:2 majority verdicts to lessen organized crime’s influence on criminal-trial outcomes. In 1972, Louisiana revised their 9:3 rule to 10:2. In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court heard plaintiff’s false argument that 1971’s Amendment VI requirement that states must provide “impartial” verdicts mean “unanimous” 12:0 verdicts, citing 14^th Century English law to overturn Louisiana impartiality.

When the faction We the People of the United States does not hold the Supreme Court accountable to the U.S. constitution, aliens can effect tyranny over the people in their states and thus in the USA.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-still-do-business-with-countries-that-allow-violations-of-human-rights-I-understand-the-economics-of-why-we-continue-our-business-with-them-but-shouldnt-we-try-to-remedy-this? by Jack Neutral

Everybody knows that the-God, the ineluctable consequence of personal-choices, yields to neither private-Gods nor to governments. Only a few persons accept the responsible-human-independence (RHI) that is required to constrain harm& injury from individuals who ignore necessity& justice.

Why does the 1787 RHI faction We the People of the United States accommodate the “ourselves and our Posterity” who do not choose necessity& justice?

How will the RHI faction pay the national debt as well as state, local, and personal debts? Has Congress’ 1791 “freedom of religion” and the consequential neglect of the-God made the USA an inevitable failure?

I don’t think so. The 2021 “ourselves and our Posterity” may choose to amend the First Amendment so as to encourage, facilitate, and practice the humble-integrity required for civic-RHI rather than continue civil-pride in Congressional and Supreme Court freedom of religion.

If the USA reforms to RHI, many countries will observe the achievable better future and join.

https://www.quora.com/Roger-Scruton-said-about-culture-You-should-have-some-familiarity-with-TS-Eliot-Baudelaire-Mozart-Wagner-Monet-Poussin-Tennyson-Schoenberg-George-Herbert-Goethe-Nietzsche-and-Marx-Who-else-should-you-include? by Graham C Lindsay

I don’t know enough to answer the question. I especially don’t know the context of Scruton’s claim.

However, here are some thinkers everyone should consider: Plato, Chekhov, Shakespeare and the Bible, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner.

https://www.quora.com/Do-foreign-governments-have-any-right-to-tell-you-how-you-should-live-your-life-if-youre-not-a-citizen-of-their-country? by Brian Gilbert

Researchers tell us our mutation of human-being, homo sapiens, is about 300,000 years old, and all mixed homo-mutations died out 10,000 years ago. Both languages and spiritualties were decades old, so awareness flourished. Grammar emerged 5,000 years ago and monotheism 4,000 years ago.

A polytheistic culture in the Middle East, expressed a cogent political philosophy for all times. In 2021 comprehension I express it as follows: in necessity& justice, female&male-human-being may choose to independently provide order& prosperity to self and descendants, to the other living species, and to the earth.

To the individual person, the implication is that they are to constrain chaos in their lifestyle, in connections with other human-beings, to prevent the other species from imposing harm/injury to or from any other species, and to preserve the earth. The other species are subject to the human-being, who practices the responsible-human-independence (RHI) that is inferred by these principles. Call them independents.

Not every person accepts necessity& justice, so there cannot be a utopia with no coercion or force. Therefore, the independents provide statutory law-enforcement, in order to constrain people who harm/injure fellow-citizens. They continually improve court systems so as to approach statutory justice. Also, they maintain effective defense so that aliens will not attack their nation. A nation with 2/3 of inhabitants pursuing RHI can provide the safety& security for most citizens to responsibly pursue the happiness they want during each stage of their lives rather than submit to the image for them by some other entity. If such a culture ever emerges, dependent-fellow-citizens’ reform might accelerate such that civic-citizenship flourishes. RHI would dominate local, state, and federal governance. Fellow-churches would pursue their hopes and comforts yet reserve sufficient humility to the-God --- whatever controls the consequences of human subjectivity.

RHI applies to nations as well as to individuals and churches.

Long ago, humankind accepted that physics& its progeny offer human-being the power of self-annihilation. Nations raced to harness the nuclear fission reaction as a bomb, and its destruction was wrought in August 1945 to end WWII. Since then, nations have cooperated to prevent nuclear proliferation so as to minimize the risk of further usage. Meanwhile, nuclear fusion, the reaction that powers the sun, is expected on earth in 2030.

Postmodern human-being has feared chemical and biological warfare. Its horror was unleased in late 2019 as the Chinese Communist Party virus. No end to nations’ misery& loss is in view.

A rogue citizen, a tyrant such as President Biden, can help aliens wreak havoc in the lives of Americans. The citizen-faction who are members of We the People of the United States have the authority to hold Biden and his administration accountable. Likewise, any and all nations on earth have the authority to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable.

Neither a government, the union of nations, nor the-God can usurp female&male-human-being’s RHI.

 

https://www.quora.com/Do-I-have-to-value-human-rights-and-follow-morality-What-if-I-dont-want-to? by Edy Polak

In general, human-rights is a subjective concept, and your values are probably valid.

I work hard to discover the-ineluctable-truth, since I don’t know much of it. “Ineluctable” means “not to be avoided, changed, or resisted”, merrriam-webster.com. I learned from Jean Rafenski Reynolds that my choice is subjective.

Here are a few subjective principals:

I want to be a human-being, because I think they can choose to perfect their unique-persons before personal afterdeath --- that indefinite time after body, mind, and person stop functioning.

That is, a human-being has the individual power, the individual energy, and the individual authority (HIPEA) to act according to personal-happiness rather than subject to another entity’s vision (for them or for themselves).

This world is inhabited by people who choose to act on necessity& justice and others who, for reason or not, don’t choose such constraint. For example, it is not necessary for a believer to claim a non-believer is doomed: no one knows the-God of human-consequences. For convenience, I call the former group “civic-citizens”, where “civic” refers to integrity in human-connections more than attention to municipal rules. Civic-citizens pursue responsible-human-independence (RHI). The others I call “dependent-fellow-citizens”, and that faction includes persons who behave on any of: beliefs in government or an ideology rather than RHI, indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime, evil, tyranny, and worse.

Under these principles, I think fellow-citizens are obligated to encourage, facilitate, and practice the humble-integrity that is required to develop RHI. I perceive personal success by appreciating every fellow-citizen as they are and where they are in their unique journey to discover and choose RHI. On their ultimatum I accept disconnection.

In threatening harm/injury, RHI obligates the civic-citizen to report dependent behaviors to the appropriate first-responders and aid statutory-law enforcement, despite the offender’s rights-opinion.

When a juror claims the right to exonerate the accused despite DNA evidence and free the convicted on DNA evidence, I claim the right to exclude that person from future jury duty. When a U.S. Senator claims they voted against the U.S. Constitution because of their “religious rights” I encourage voters to un-elect them. I think voting should be licensed based on: commitment-to and trust-in the 1787 U.S. Constitution’s intentions as the voter interprets& practices them and earning their way of living including saving for retirement and paying local, state, and federal taxes so as to encourage& facilitate dependent-reform.

I think there’s only one human right: the opportunity to discover and practice RHI.

I write to learn and therefore, invite comments.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-philosophy-important/answers/252978498?__nsrc__=4&__snid3__=28291666651&comment_id=229503331&comment_type=2 by Cheryl Harmon

It seems when you see one of those signs you think about being only 15 years beyond the age for purchasing liquor. Not bad. When you’re my age, you can say you’re only 63 years beyond your anchor.

My anchor is death just past age 121. Thus, for a couple more years I can say I have more than half again as much time to live. Thus, at 80–1/2 years old, my anchor says I’ll have just over 40–1/3 years to live.

Thank you, Ms Harmon, for encouraging me to formalize my anchor. Good luck with your anchor and other people’s reactions to your usage.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-state-of-being-whole-entire-or-undiminished? by Ifeanyi Chukwu

For humankind, integrity is a state of encouraging& facilitating subjectivity to necessity& justice in human connections and providing order& prosperity to the world and its inhabitants.

To nations, integrity is a state of aiding human-constraint of chaos (provision of order& prosperity) to fellow citizens.

To the individual, integrity is responsible behavior for personally-chosen happiness while neither initiating nor accommodating harm/injury to-or-from any person or institution.

https://www.quora.com/How-can-one-live-life-and-have-freedom-of-speech-and-not-offend-someone-or-be-cancelled? by Mark Koll

Mr. Koll, I nominate their question for 2021’s “Clue to an Achievable Better Future” award and express my personal appreciation on the post at A Civic People.

I don’t know the-ineluctable-truth. Here are my thoughts:

It’s important to observe that this is a confused and conflicted world. But the individual may choose to constrain chaos in daily choices. Also, it is OK for an individual to encourage, facilitate, and practice perfecting each unique-human-being. Unique perfection involves some personal acceptances. The person may:

1. Develop their human being, especially personal humble-integrity.

2. Develop their person’s individual power, individual energy, and individual authority (HIPEA).

3. Use HIPEA for civic-integrity rather than for a dependency, such as, government, the-God, indolence, abuse, infidelity, crime, evil, tyranny, and worse. Accept that choosing independence is a subjective act: some choose dependency.

4. Learn the laws of physics& its-progeny; mathematics, forces, energy& mass, chemistries, biology, psychology, imagination, fiction, indeed everything. Know and doubt metaphysics.

5. Act on necessity& justice.

6. Never repeat a mistake: never lie.

7. Neither initiate nor accommodate harm to-or-from any person or institution.

8. Encourage, facilitate, and practice responsible-human-independence (RHI).

9. Develop appreciation of fellow-citizen as they are and where they are in their opportunity for HIPEA and RHI. Express subjectivity in words that appeal to their experiences& observations.

10. Retain childhood confidence when you don’t know the-ineluctable-truth: frankly express “I don’t know”. If necessary, follow with subjectivity or opinion, then repeat, “But I don’t know”.

11. Walk away from psychological violence or physical threat, alert to the call for defense. Hope for a better, future-contact with that fellow-citizen.

12. Accept that the HIPEA children may develop could sustain parents to serve grandchildren in a way of living no one could have imagined.

This may strike you as a proposal for utopia, but it is not. It is the human-culture that is intended by the 1787 U.S. Constitution. Its intentions are sufficiently abstract for the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity” to discover personal ineluctable-happiness rather than submit to an institutional vision for each unique person.

The faction We the People of the United States may practice, encourage, and facilitate 5 domestic disciplines --- integrity, justice, peace, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” develop responsible-human-independence “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

I would appreciate comments.

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.