Christians exploiting Christian nationalism rather than promoting 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, safety, 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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Christian nationalism is being exploited by the Democrat Party’s intentions to spoil the U.S. constitutional republic. Democrat wokism promotes skin-color-supremacy, Semitism, racism, gender delusion, LGBTQ-industrial-complex, open borders, social democracy, alien influence, rapid inflation, the Roman Church, and civic-corruption, in order to enslave fellow-citizens. Civic-citizens won’t yield.

Civic-citizens, We the People of the United States as defined by the preamble, can& may begin to end the Democrat Party’s egregious tyranny by amending the First Amendment’s provision of Congressional freedom of religion by amending the religious practice clause from “preventing” to “promoting”. Republicans who are not civic-citizens can& may reform. "Civic" means reliable in human connections& transactions.

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Presiding Bishop joins call for Christians to counter Christian nationalism during webinar – Episcopal News Service, Jan 28, 2021

Bishop Curry speaks at 23 minutes into the video. In my paraphrase: anytime Christianity strays from Jesus of Nazareth, the cause is suppression by Christ, an ambiguous figure someone uses for immoral purpose. Apartheid, Nazism, and white supremacy are examples. These are violations of Christianity based on Jesus Christ as Lord.

In my view, the good bishop is himself astray from the-metaphysical-Jesus-message (MJM). By MJM, I mean the-good which the continuum “ourselves and our Posterity”* can& may gain by discovering, accepting, practicing, facilitating, and encouraging behavior according to Jesus’ principles and their extensions.

Christ is an entity of dispute with the Jews, a faction of whom predicted a messiah (anointed one) to establish a kingdom. “Christ” evolved from English translations of the Greek Χριστού, which in turn is from the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Mašíaḥ, messiah), meaning "⁠[one who is] anointed" (Wikipedia). The evolution to “Christ” happened long after Jesus died.

To Christians, Christ indisputably titles Jesus. Applying the title is a risk I would not take, for at least 3 reasons.

First, Matthew shares the hearsay that Jesus said, “Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.” Just as I never liked someone saying “Phil: horse lover!”, or someone laughing about “beaver-tail” for their reasons, or “tha-beaver”, I doubt Jesus accepts commentary on his name. Of course, neither know the-ineluctable-truth nor can limit Jesus’s influence.

Second, given the chance to speak for himself before being sentenced to death, John reports that Jesus said, “ . . . the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Jesus could have accepted Pontius Pilot deciding not to kill an innocent man. Jesus, facing death, neither admitted kingship nor claimed fulfilling Hebrew prophesy. To me, the Bible presents, perhaps misrepresents, a mysterious Jesus, and I think collaborating to discover MJM empowers pursuit of the-ineluctable-truth. By discovering and excluding false witness, humankind may eventually comprehend Jesus’ principles.

Third, I choose to discover MJM to benefit my way of living. I serenely perceive that if I changed my quid for the Christian pro quo (everlasting life to defeat death) MJM would be aware of my duplicity – lack of integrity. Despite all impositions, I cannot deny Phil Beaver.

I share my concerns, because I appreciate fellow citizens, as they are where they are. If my choices-for-me seem worthy of consideration, I do not want to change one person’s mind, because I do not know the-ineluctable-truth. Let people who read my concerns make their own choices. I want responsibility for only one person’s actions -- for my person’s life. I can& must caution, with appreciation, anyone’s attempt to force me to falsify my trust-in and commitment-to MJM.

*[Quoting the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.]

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quora.com/How-do-you-make-sure-that-your-individualism-is-effectively-constructive-and-not-deleteriously-destructive? by Graham C Lindsay

I perceive 5 guidelines to civic-citizenship. Civic means reliability in human connections& transactions more than civility.

First, the appreciative human accepts that something constrains the consequences of human choices& actions. They study, experience& observe the constraints, and behave in self-interest. For example, civic-citizens never lie, because consequences eventually expose both the lie and the liar.

Second, it’s alright to speculate that something controls the constraints. Perhaps the-laws-of-physics (the-laws) control everything, including imagination& fiction. Perhaps the-Divine controls consequences. The-secular-Jesus offers civic-guidance. Humankind’s reason yields to the-laws.

Third, humankind conducts research, in order to discover the-laws and how to use them for each the-good and the-bad. Civic-citizens practice, facilitate, and encourage the-good, and pay taxes to pursue public provisions including statutory-justice and its enforcement. They act to convince people who choose the-bad to reform.

Fourth, civic-citizens appreciate political documents that affirm responsible-human-independence (RHI). Ancient civil-law codes developed by the Sumer civilization then finalized 3,700 years ago by the Babylonian, Hammurabi, proposed human cooperation as though the-Divine left secular progress to humankind. The responsibility is abstractly expressed in Hebrew vernacular in Genesis 1:26-28. The United States, 3,000 years later, proffered the 1787 Constitution. It proposes 5 public disciplines for RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”.

Fifth, civic-citizens neither initiate nor accommodate harm to-or-from any person or institution, including self.

These 5 principles empower the individual to constrain chaos in their way of living. RHI has not drawn attention yet, because Education Departments focus on “the workers we need” and do not teach human being (verb).

When most people are pursuing RHI, an achievable better future will seem possible. When 2/3 of inhabitants practice, facilitate& encourage RHI, a better humankind will emerge.

It matters not to humankind if the United States is not the first nation to pursue RHI.

Posted with comment: The world’s citizens can& may develop individual cooperation as though the-Divine left secular progress to humankind.

quora.com/Are-right-decisions-and-good-actions-inherent-to-human-nature? by Sabrina Loz

I think so but don’t know “human-nature” so can’t be certain.

I understand that the newborn human-infant is a feral animal with potential that requires a quarter century to nourish and as much or more to develop. In contrast, a foal stands on 4 legs in about an hour, finds its mare’s tit in about 3 hours, and can be ridden in 3 to 4 years. Prime working years are 6 to 15. A human’s prime working years are 40 to 70, and maturity follows.

The human body takes a quarter century to completely construct the informed-decision-making portions of the brain. The young adult works another quarter century to acquire the experiences& observations on which to develop wisdom. This is so, because being human (verb) proffers possible psychology for perfect choices& actions in personal ways of living.

So far, Education Departments train the workers they need rather than inculcate in youth and adults the comprehension and intention to pursue human being. Civic-integrity is in the person’s self-interest. “Civic” refers to reliability in human connections and transactions more than civility.

If civic-citizens, We the People of the United States, as defined by the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, require Education Departments to aid children and adults in the transition to human being, an achievable better future will emerge.

Then, we should be able to affirm my claim that most people want to practice civic-integrity.

Posted with comment: Most people want to share the-good.

quora.com/unanswered/Given-that-there-is-no-single-answer-to-the-question-of-what-is-good-or-bad-how-can-we-meaningfully-discuss-ethics? by anonymous

The premise that there is no basis for good versus bad is false, and “ethics” delays discovering the-good.

It seems clear that humankind is solely responsible for life on earth: neither government nor God can usurp that responsibility. Further, humankind’s process for executing that responsibility is research to discover the-laws-of-physics and how to apply the laws to the-good. In research-failure, humankind admits not knowing the-good.

To employ the-laws-of-physics in-order-to defeat the-good is bad. To avoid, change, escape, neglect, or resist the-laws-of-physics for personal gain is egregious.

A couple examples should suffice. First, human life is sustained by the energy to breathe. It takes exponential-magnitudes more energy to maintain breath. Nuclear energy is a boon to energy supply, the-good. However, nuclear energy can be harvested as a bomb, the-bad. The choice to make bombs in order to control people is bad.

Second, humankind experiences and observes the consequences of choice and action. The journal of consequences can& may be used to establish constraints toward the-good. To avoid, change, escape, neglect, or resist those constraints is bad.

We have yet to address ethics. Accepting research to discover the-good, the function of ethics is to construct social exceptions from the-laws-of-physics.

Consider, for example, constitutional law. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a system of government that pursues statutory-justice. When experience or observation shows written law is unjust, the legislature can& may discover relief and amend the Constitution to achieve the-good. On the other hand, Congress can negotiate compromise that advantages to a special-interest group, effecting the bad. For example, the First Congress craftily granted themselves freedom of religion at the people’s expense: “preventing” in the religious-practice clause should be “promoting”. If civic-citizens, We the People of the United States, as defined by the preamble, accommodate bad legislation, Congress claims they followed ethics. But the civic-citizens avoided, changed, escaped, neglected, or resisted the-good. Ethics delays discovery.

Posted with the comment: What is good and what is bad is made plain to people and "ethics" bemuses their neglect of discovery.

quora.com/unanswered/Should-the-government-mandate-that-all-citizens-have-a-basic-level-of-education? by anonymous

No:  Some people don’t want to learn, and there is no way to force them.

However, a civic-people can& may reform every Education Department, in order to inculcate in every youth& adult the comprehension& intention to pursue human being (verb) rather than to train the workers the nation thinks it needs.

Some students would still want dependency, but most would accept the self-interest of all the education they can acquire for the duration of their lives.

Posted with comment: Government can& may accept that human being (verb) is too powerful to yield to force.

quora.com/Is-a-person-free-to-decide-and-act-according-to-what-he-wants-but-he-is-answerable-to-or-responsible-for-the-consequences-of-his-her-decision-and-action? by Sabrina Loz

I think each person is free to choose what they want and cannot escape the consequences of their actions. The person who accepts this principle early in life does not repeat mistakes and therefore does not acquire negative habits. As experience& observations increase, they wake up each day, happily facing its challenges with serene-confidence in their self-interested integrity. They have the possibility to approach their unique perfection before death.

Soon, they accept that human being (verb) is a civic collaboration to discover& accept the constraints on personal choices. Here, “civic” expresses reliability to human connections& transactions more than civility to norms. The civic-citizen aids pursuit of statutory-justice. Persons who avoid, change, escape, neglect, or resist statutory-justice are dependents. Dependents reject responsible-human-independence (RHI).

RHI begins with conservation of energy: human-living requires personal energy to breathe. The feral infant is unaware and totally dependent. However, during their first quarter century they can& may accept the comprehension& intention to work. Using work, they pursue the responsible happiness they want, rather than the lifestyle someone else would impose. They can& may serve in a capacity that rewards the power that is required to sustain their breath for their happiness.

Persons who cause or accommodate harm invite subjugation to statutory-justice. Civic-citizens earn to pay for the happiness they want and to pay taxes to pursue& enforce statutory-justice. Statutory-justice is pursued by research to discover the-laws-of-physics& progeny (the-laws). Progeny includes mathematics, chemistries, biology and psychology. Imagination and fiction are possible only because of the un-discovered. The-laws constrain the consequences of human choices& actions.

Each generation is patient to promote the civic-integrity that RHI requires. They maintain research, in order to continually increase their posterity’s opportunity to achieve the happiness they want – a happiness the living adults cannot imagine. No RHI-culture exists, because no civic-people has decided to pursue it.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers pursuit of an RHI-culture. It provides for amendment of legal precedent so that extant adults and their posterity can& may pursue statutory-justice. U.S. intention, stated in the preamble, is 5 public disciplines – integrity, justice, security, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” pursue RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Posterity includes legal immigrants and descendants.

The 1787 Constitution accommodates the political philosophy developed by Sumer, a civilization that existed 5,500 years ago. The key is the primitive phrase “so that they may rule”, regarding the evolution of homo sapiens (Genesis 1:26, NIV). The Sumerians accepted that they can, so invented the wheel, language, codes of law, and many other acts of RHI. Sumerian descendants& influence live on. Through discovery, modern humankind, NASA, plans to colonize either the moon or Mars in 10 years. 

When most civic-citizens want an RHI culture, restoring the 1787 intentions of the United States offers an expedient path. If the U.S. is lost, some other country can make the necessary choices. Meanwhile, every civic-person can& may pursue reliability to the-laws-of-physics& progeny.

Posted with comment: A person can& may practice reliability in every human connection& transaction, in order to pursue self-interest.

quora.com/What-view-of-human-nature-does-Jean-Jacques-Rousseau-espouse-in-The-Social-Contract? by anonymous

Rousseau dreamed that the state could manage, for example, energy, for the-good of the many rather than to a few. However, he denied that the state would be the few and increase its share of energy, alienating the civic-people, those who work for the energy they need and to pay necessary taxes.

 

Rousseau denied the most fundamental fact of human being (verb): it takes energy to breathe, and neither fruit nor land gift energy to the person. Each person can& may earn energy by work. The person who comprehends& intends human being (verb) works to live and accepts that other people can& may do the same. Energy-earners are civic-citizens, where “civic” refers to reliability more than civility.

 

But other citizens choose dependency. Dependencies include religious arrogance, indolence, passivity, crime, tyranny, evil, and worse. Dependents must be constrained by isolation if not reform. Civic-citizens earn enough to both live and to pay taxes, in order to pursue and enforce statutory justice, among other infrastructural necessities.

 

Rousseau’s world is desolate. Does an alternative exist?

 

The 55 framers designed a civic-institution “to ourselves and our Posterity”, and the 39 signers proffered the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787. However, at least 3 of 9 ratifying states insisted on Anglo-American religious arrogance, and the consequence is the 1791 Bill of Rights.

 

 The most egregious tyranny is Congress’s First Amendment religious practice clause at the people’s disadvantage. Civic-people can& may reform Congress by replacing “preventing” with “promoting”. Second, state’s Amendment VI opportunity to use majority-jury verdicts to increase impartiality, by lessening bias, can& may be restored.

 

Shared with comment: Rousseau failed to recognize that the state is "the few". The few cannot constrain the few, as U.S. civic-citizens experience& observe.

 

quora.com/unanswered/How-do-you-define-good-and-bad-and-what-implications-do-your-definitions-have-on-the-world-around-you? by anonymous

Everything from universal evolution to fiction to ribbons in a baby’s hair comports to the-laws-of-physics and its progeny, including forces, waves, particles, chemistries, biology, psychology, imagination, etc. Imagination is made possible by what has not been discovered. The-laws-of-physics yield not to rationalization, revelation, mystery, or other human constructs.

Through research, humankind discovers the-laws-of-physics and how to apply them to human being (verb). By default, humankind is solely able to pursue comprehensive safety and security to life on earth and to earth. In other words, every person can& may constrain chaos in their intentions and actions to live: no power can usurp their choices to act, even though force can prevent the action.

The-laws-of-physics constrain human choices and actions. This is made plain to humankind by experiencing and observing the consequences of choices and actions. To attempt to avoid, to change, to escape, to neglect, or to resist the-laws-of-physics is bad.

A couple examples might suffice.

First, Albert Einstein thought the universe was fixed, while competitive mathematicians thought it dynamic. Einstein’s mathematical model worked with a dynamic universe, so he added an arbitrary factor to force the static paradigm. Ten years later, Edwin Hubble proved the universe is dynamic and expanding. Einstein admitted his blunder and stopped using the “cosmological factor”. (Today, some physicists revive the factor to model a flat universe; Einstein's 'Biggest Blunder' Turns Out to Be Right | Space.)

Second, to claim to know there is-or-is-not a God seems failure to accept that discovery could negate the imagining. This is not unlike Einstein’s blunder: correctable, either by removal or re-application of the arbitrary assumption.

Personal opinion about God, yes or no, helps some people pursue and positively apply the-laws-of physics. They cannot be discouraged, because they experienced the-good during their lives.

Share tag: How I discern good from bad: the-laws-of-physics and its progeny; appreciating the-good.

quora.com/unanswered/Do-you-think-that-people-in-positions-of-power-e-g-politicians-have-a-higher-duty-to-act-ethically? by anonymous

No. Ethics is the art of breaking rules with political honesty. Civic-citizens demand integrity. Elected and appointed officials are duty bound to comprehend, practice, facilitate, and encourage the U.S. intentions that are proffered in the U.S. Constitution. There are two commitments: to apply& maintain the Constitution and to uphold& pursue the intentions stated in the preamble.

The Constitution specifies a republican form of government. Civic-citizens vote for representatives rather than on direct legislative action. Representatives disrupt mob rule. The U.S. government is further limited by distribution of legislative, administrative, and judicial powers. Power not granted to one of those 3 central branches is left to the USA’s civic-citizens in their states. Herein, “civic” expresses reliability in human connections& transactions plus upholding written law, rather than submission to political powers. State-citizens, through their state-constitutions, authorize powers to counties and cities. These entities are divided into districts, so that a citizen may locate to more closely satisfy their political distinctions.

The preamble grammatically expresses a subject’s compound action to an object: civic-citizens preserve the Constitution to pursue 6 open-intentions “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Here is the text:

 
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

There are 5 more subtleties.

First, “We the People of the United States” is the civic entity that authorizes, in the Constitution, limited powers, in order to pursue the intentions. In other words, U.S. citizens who care not about the intentions are not of We the People of the United States. The careless citizens subjugate themselves to the civic-citizens and become dependent. The civic-citizens can& may outnumber the dependents. Second, the continuum of U.S. citizens have self-interest-in, benefit-from, the pursuits& accomplishments. That includes legal immigrants and the nation’s descendants, whether civic or careless. On the other hand, if dependents outnumber civic-citizens, physical viability lessens. Third, the 6 intentions are domestic pursuits without standards of achievement. Thereby, for example, “establish Justice” facilitates& encourages extant civic-citizens rather than binding them to erroneous tradition. The Constitution provides for amendment so as to pursue statutory justice rather than to preserve legal error (erroneous precedent). No one knows the ultimate good the system could achieve. Fourth, the civic-citizen, in each stage of their life, maintains a personal interpretation of the 6 goals in order to guide their vote to authorize a fellow-citizen to become their locale’s representative. My personal interpretation of the preamble is: we civic-citizens comprehend, practice, facilitate, and encourage 6 domestic disciplines: integrity, justice, security, strength, prosperity, and responsibility “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Fifth, the preamble does not promote religion, thereby, assigns spiritual motivation& inspiration-choices to adult privacy. In this regard, the religious-practice clause of the First Amendment is in conflict and can& may be amended to “promoting” instead of “preventing”. Religion can& must accommodate statutory justice.

Citizens who are not of We the People of the United States, as defined in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, are domestic aliens. Domestic aliens ought not be licensed to vote in city, county, state, or federal elections. Demonstration of recent action to comprehensively aid fulfillment of the preamble’s intentions can& may be a requirement to receive or maintain license to vote. License to vote can& may be a requirement to either run for election or accept appointed office.

This implies that the right to vote is predicated on a citizen accepting the intention to be civic. Acceptance of mere existence as license to vote has developed by domestic violence and can be reformed. In addition to the constitutional principles enumerated above there is ancient precedent for an inclusive basis by which fellow-citizens qualify to vote or not. By design or coincidence, the 1787 U.S. Constitution affirms the secular principle that is expressed in Genesis 1:26-28. That 3,000 year-old Hebrew scripture expresses a 5,500 year old Sumerian political philosophy, in secular interpretation: male& female human being can& may (has the power to) pursue order and prosperity to life on earth.

With 5,500 years’ affirmation of what we daily experience& observe plus 233 years’ neglect of the U.S. preamble, reform seems needed. Reform is not possible until it is proffered.

quora.com/How-can-a-country-effectively-balance-financial-values-with-human-values? by Graham C Lindsay

Some nations train "the workers we need".

What if every Education Department in the world reformed its curricula, in order to inculcate the comprehension& intention to aid each: the newborn, the child, the adolescent, the young adult, and the practicing citizen to personally develop their unique Human Being (verb) to the civic integrity that is required for responsible-human-independence (RHI)?

What if the world decided that the meaning of life is for each person to reliably pursue the happiness they perceive, at each stage in their life, rather than subjugate to the common good or another human construct?

The student would still have to learn RHI on their own, but at least they’d have better chance to discover& accept civic-integrity. “Civic” herein means reliability in human connections& transactions more than cooperation with religious and civil magistrates.

 

quora.com/Why-is-there-a-sense-of-falsified-superiority-in-society? by James Rondon Jr

The tyrants have mastered the art of convincing people to look to higher power to usurp their opportunity to practice human being (verb).

I think the Internet and cellphone access have brought us to an exciting new development we didn’t expect. Humankind has always had to tolerate tyrants. The individual feels busy pursuing the happiness they think they want and therefore neglects the work to discover themselves and their uniquely satisfying meaning in life. Most people accept what the tyrants say they want.

The reform that is needed is for every Education Department to assist the child and adults in the transition from dependency to human being (verb). Only a civic-people can make this happen. Civic means practicing reliability in human connections and transactions more than accepting civility.

The Internet and cell phone give a person access to the world’s information. Power brokers know and enter information that will help preserve and advance their power, wealth, and sexual predation. Some clergy whet their appetites with porn to abuse victims in moderation. Government officials routinely increase their pay and perks. Judges take all the power that legislators and lawyers give them, the rule of law be damned. TV shows abuse the female body.

As we near the end of 2023, it is clear that alien forces intend to enslave all vulnerable people. The Internet enables the people to recognize the tyranny. They can& may accept, at last, that comprehensive—safety& security is possible if and only if they constrain chaos in their way of living.

When half plus one of the world’s vulnerable individuals accept responsible-human-independence (RHI), an achievable better future will become possible. When 2/3 have joined the reform, the better future will emerge.

This is not a new concept. Hebrew scholars, 3,000 years ago, reported, in their vernacular, now 5,500 year old Sumerian political philosophy: only male& female human being (verb) can& may pursue comprehensive—safety& security to life on earth. That’s my interpretation of Genesis 1:26-28, NIV only. I’d like to read yours.

Unfortunately, monotheism, introduced 4,000 years ago displaced polytheisms such as Sumer’s, and the consequence in 2022 is diverse theisms that exploded into the chaos the world is now suffering. Literature written between 3,000 years ago and 1,700 has empowered elite tyrants to bemuse most people until now. The erroneous “woke” movement has brought attention to the opportunity for individuals to constrain chaos in their way of living.

Every Education Department can& may reform, in order to inculcate in every civic child and adult the comprehension& intention to develop human being (verb) more than train “the workers we need”. “Civic” refers to reliability in human connections& transactions more than to civilization.

Posted with comment: The person who develops their human being (verb) needs no higher power. in order to constrain chaos in their way of living.

quora.com/unanswered/Are-there-any-good-philosophical-arguments-for-animal-rights? by anonymous

As with human being (verb) the more pertinent question is, can rights be asserted without responsibilities? I think the answer is, No.

Animals suffer incidental pain and humans also suffer psychological pain. Human-beings can& may accept responsibilities and be held accountable. Animals can be trained and groomed yet are dependent in those circumstances.

Any human can rise to leadership, but only animal-leaders can lead. I am sure there are many exceptions and deeper considerations, but do not think they change the No.

quora.com/How-can-society-function-without-trust-and-honesty? by anonymous

Reform to reliability and integrity.

quora.com/Do-you-see-any-major-societal-problems-that-need-to-be-addressed-Why-do-you-think-these-problems-exist? by anonymous

It seems obvious that if a person is to live in comprehensive-safety& security, they must pursue it. Neither the-God nor a government can& will pursue a person’s responsible privacy.

The potential for individual happiness through responsible privacy has existed from the beginning. However, primitive man was too busy working-to-survive to pursue happiness. Yet happiness to them was all around them – in the smell of grass, the trickle of water, the daily hiding and un-hiding of the sun, a warm fire, satisfactions.

Pursuit of happiness became more feasible with the emergence of homo sapiens, 300,000 years ago. About 10,000 years ago, Sumer kings accepted that their Gods would-not, could-not pursue order and prosperity on earth. So they initiated codes of law by which to organize and regulate society to practice, facilitate, and encourage responsible human independence (RHI). Civic-citizens contributed according to their abilities, and un-civic citizens suffered justice according to the law. Offenders suffered in kind to their offense. Successive Sumer kings improved the codes until they were displaced by Babylonians, and Hammurabi authored the latest code about 3700 years ago.

Monotheism emerged and dominated political philosophies about 4,000 years ago. About 3,000 years ago, Hebrew scholars expressed the Sumerian political philosophy in monotheistic vernacular in Genesis 1:26-28. Interpret it your way. I think it says that the-God holds that male& female humankind, in the-God’s image, can& may practice RHI for order and prosperity to life on earth and to the earth.

Since then, civilizations have constructed their-Gods to usurp RHI. One culture’s God will defeat another’s. But the Gods don’t observe the constructs. Today, there are so many Gods that the world is in chaos.

A public-godless government that fosters RHI was proposed. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers 5 public disciplines – integrity, justice, security, strength, and prosperity, “in order to” promote RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Three of the 9 ratifying states required some English-law mimics. Congress’ work became the 1791 Bill of Rights.

The religion clauses of the First Amendment provide Congress freedom of religion at the people’s expense. This tyranny can be remedied by altering the religious-practice clause to “promoting” instead of “preventing”.

The nation that takes interest in the 1787 U.S. Constitution as an improvement on Genesis 1:26-28 can& may pursue an achievable better future.

Shared with the comment, “Signers proffered a public-Godless U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, in order to appreciate religion in privacy. I think the secular Jesus affirms the proposal.”

quora.com/Do-we-need-a-new-political-philosophy? by anonymous

Question: Do we need a new political philosophy?

Answer: No, but a preferred one needs to be implemented by a nation or culture.
Humankind needs to improve an ancient political philosophy that originated perhaps 5,500 years ago under polytheism. Subsequent civilizations evolved to monotheism-dominance beginning 4,000 years ago. The U.S. proposed a secular culture in the 1787 Constitution, but the First Congress reinstated religion, to mimic English tradition, in the 1791 Bill of Rights.

The development began with the Sumerian civilization, projected onto Babylonia, was obscured by Hebrew scholars, was lost in Judeo-Christianity, and was improved by the framers and signers of the 1787 U.S. constitution.

Sumerian kings surmised that the gods left responsibility for order and prosperity to life on earth solely to humankind. They developed law codes to constrain citizens who did not collaborate in the work.

Quoting, online, The Fall of Sumer - The Ancient Sumerians (weebly.com), “[Akkadian] king Sargon (reigned  2334–2284 BCE). He conquered the cities of Sumer and brought them under one system of government. Southern Mesopotamia became known as the ‘land of Sum and Akkad’. Even though the Sumerian empire was no longer an empire, their culture and their habits lived on forever. This is because all the empires after Sumer had to adapt to Sumer's culture to get their basic needs like food and clothing. So I think we owe it to the Sumerians and that their life changed ours.

Around 2150 BC the Akkadians fell to the Gutians. Then, “Around 2100 BC, the Third Dynasty of Ur came to power, marking a shift of power back to the Sumerians after a period of domination by the Akkadians,” quoting Explaining the fall of the great Akkadian Empire - Nexus Newsfeed.

“In 2004 B.C., the Elamites stormed Ur and took control. At the same time, Amorites had begun overtaking the Sumerian population. The ruling Elamites were eventually absorbed into Amorite culture, becoming the Babylonians and marking the end of the Sumerians as a distinct body from the rest of Mesopotamia.” From Sumer - HISTORY.

More from Babylon | History, Religion, Time Period, & Facts | Britannica: “After the fall of the 3rd dynasty of Ur, under which Babylon had been a provincial centre, it became the nucleus of a small kingdom established in 1894 BCE by the Amorite king Sumuabum, whose successors consolidated its status. The sixth and best-known of the Amorite dynasts, Hammurabi (1792–50 BCE), conquered the surrounding city-states and raised Babylon to the capital of a kingdom comprising all of southern Mesopotamia and part of Assyria (northern Iraq). Terah, Abraham’s father left Ur to establish a new religion that did not involve human sacrifice.

Ancestors of one branch of Abraham’s family became Hebrews, and their scholars expressed the Sumerian political philosophy: humankind is solely responsible for comprehensive-safety& security to life on earth. It is recorded in Hebrew vernacular in Genesis 1:26-28.

The 1787 U.S. Constitution improves on Genesis 1:26-28 by leaving God out of the statement of responsibility. In other words, humankind can& may develop statutory justice in order to constrain fellow citizens who do not choose to collaborate.

The republic that is specified therein can be established and developed by any peoples who perceive the advantages of civic integrity, where “civic” means reliability in human connections& transactions.

 

quora.com/How-can-we-create-a-more-just-and-equitable-society-within-the-framework-of-capitalism? by anonymous

We can establish responsible-human-independence, which was suggested 5,500 years ago then waylaid by monotheism, which inspires citizens to tolerate war and wait for a divine to provide relief.

In the oldest well documented civilization, a succession of Sumerian kings gradually accepted that their polytheism controlled other worlds and left to humankind sole responsibility for order and prosperity to the earth and its species. Sumerians served as slaves, workers, artisans, administrators, and royalty. Classes collaborated to discover the-laws-of-physics and apply them to positive benefits (, hereafter, physics). The kings developed law-codes to constrain unreliable citizens, commensurate with their offense. People enjoyed lifestyles limited by their contributions. Government sufficed until a Babylonian king defeated the Sumerians.

About the same time, monotheism dominated political philosophy. Kings developed doctrinal military-power on the hearts of believers: their culture had a powerful God. Successful kings developed monotheisms in partnership with the clergy. Citizens, busy surviving and thriving, worshipped and praised their civilization’s God, in exchange for safety and security. Royalty and churches thrived on the people’s prayers and hopes for a better future. For some quid the pro quo would be favorable afterdeath, that vast time after body, mind, and person stopped functioning.

From the development of Mesopotamian monotheisms, there emerged a doctrine of subjugation to laws to bargain with their God. Another culture emerged from natural gestation-surrogacy. It eventually developed submission to their doctrinal God. A third group developed everlasting life on belief in Christ, Greek for “anointed one”. Today, each of these doctrine has factions that vie for political if not military power. Thus, monotheism distorted polytheism such that religious-imposition prevents civilizations from developing responsibility for ways of living. Appreciation to physics prevents reverting to polytheism.

I know of one proposal to end competitive monotheism that lessens attention to the-laws-of-physics, or civic-integrity. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a culture of 6 public disciplines --- integrity, justice, security, strength, prosperity and RHI “to ourselves and our Posterity”. Posterity includes legal immigrants and descendants. The 6 disciplines leave religion or none to adult privacy. U.S. neglect has left it to some other nation to improve and establish the RHI-culture.

On a personal level, each civilization has a faction of civic-citizens – people who accept: to survive they must constrain chaos in their personal way of living. Each of them seeks a locality wherein they can expect and aid physical safety and security so that their daily contributions effect the responsible happiness they want. Recognizing the commonality of this human need and want, they spend at least 40 hours a week providing a publically-needed good or service. Civic-citizens know that the daily needs for human living cannot be supplied alone. That is, a watchmaker cannot be a cake-baker. Therefore, they collaborate with fellow-citizens who aid civic-integrity by providing a publically needed and wanted good or service.

This is the basic statement of the capital system: a day’s cost of living for a day’s work. To make the system feasible, the state can& may separate from religious interests, leaving them to the privacy of each adult citizen. For example, the 2022 U.S. administration is imposing U.S. conversion from Anglo-American religion to liberal democracy. The U.S. First Amendment must be revised in the religious practice clause to “promoting” instead of “preventing”, ending Congressional freedom of religion at the people’s expense. I feel certain this can happen, if civic-citizens, We the People of the United States become woke to their fleeting opportunity to preserve the U.S. constitutional republic.

The state must reform economic regulations so as to encourage entrepreneurship and creativity without picking the pockets of consumers. There can be neither royalty class nor poverty. Even the lowest service, must offer the provider adequate food, clothing, home, transportation, communications, education, re-education, health care, payment of taxes at local state and national levels, and savings for emergency, family, and retirement. In my opinion, entertainment should not be the risk/reward structure with wealthy rent seekers that it is. By all means there should be no perks for government service, and duration of the service should be limited.

I’m only an old white man, help mate to my wife of 53 years, and father of her three children, one deceased. When I lacked the courage to sign the contract to build the house she and I designed with our children’s input and including her grandmother’s room and bath, fear overtook me and our future was in question until she said, “That’s not the husband I married.” Soon, we’ll own that home and pay only the maintenance, taxes and insurance. It has been roses and thorns. I know, because I have the records. However, I only recall that a dream is being lived.

We can share U.S. stories “to ourselves and our Posterity”. They are not American stories. They are U.S. stories of responsible-human-independence, made possible by the 1787 Constitution. Partial re-establishment of erroneous English tradition, in the 1791 Bill of Rights, must be reversed.

Law professors

The Pope Who Schooled the Politicians – David G. Bonagura, Jr. (lawliberty.org)

Pope Benedict XIV asked, “[W]here is the ethical foundation for political choices to be found?” I answer, the laws of physics and its progeny.

And consistent with Genesis 1:26-28, “the high-point of God’s creative design for the world and for history” is the person who chooses to pursue order and prosperity to life on earth.

The-laws-of-physics and its progeny limit both progressive license and religion. Being an unseen activity, religious freedom cannot be legislated other than to empower the legislators to decide what religion is, disenfranchising the people.

“[T]he idea of human rights, the idea of the equality of all people before the law, [and] the recognition of the inviolability of human dignity in every single person” pale before secular responsibility according to Genesis 1:26-28.

The idea of free-will is a construct by which people whet and satisfy banal appetites and abuse other people even though they can& may pursue civic-integrity according to Genesis 1:26-28.

Most egregiously, this article bemuses readers:  Is the logos God? Christ? The Catholic Church? What happened to Jesus – just plain Jesus -- my secular guide?

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Phil Beaver (@beaver_phil17) / Twitter, Jan 5, 2023

Quoting David G. Bonagura, Jr., “[Secularization is] a condition whereby the world increasingly operates as if God did not exist.”

Bonagura’s idea interprets Genesis 1:26-28 NIV: male& female human-being can& may independently rule life on earth, leaving to God God’s choices.
facebook.com/phil.beaver.52,January 5, 2023

Prompted by the, I think, weak, The Pope Who Schooled the Politicians – David G. Bonagura, Jr. (lawliberty.org), I decided not to read Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism.

In the consideration I found this quote of the book: “. . . secularization, a condition whereby the world increasingly operates as if God did not exist.”

That’s a good idea at least 4 ways. First, it seems good to accept God’s appreciation of human being (verb) without trying to impose on God. Second, it facilitates attention to the secular Jesus. For example, when asked if a man can divorce his wife because he wants to, Jesus replied that a man unites to his wife and becomes inseparable (Matthew 19:3-8). Third, Hebrew scholars, 3,000 years ago, in their vernacular, in Genesis 1:26-28, expressed 5,500 year-old Sumerian political philosophy. A message is that humankind can& may rule the world, “as though God did not exist”. Fourth, by accepting secular responsibility, a person can& may practice human being during life, humble toward God’s rule in the afterdeath.

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Ms Rowe, I’m glad you posted this video. This may be the most athletic catch& advance-to-the-spot we've seen in history. Bowers rotates the ball above the sideline-plane then gathers it in as he rolls to the ground.

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, December 29, 2022

Anti-Semitism? Words are important. I consult merriamwebster, online.

“Semitism” means “policy or predisposition favorable to Jews”. Does humankind have reason to favor Jews?

"Jew" means "a person belonging to a continuation through descent or conversion of the ancient Jewish people". The phrase “conversion of” seems clumsy in context. Also, I perceive both religious and political rather than racial transformation. I advocate human being (verb), based on Genesis 1.

The ancient Jewish people expressed, in their vernacular, primitive Sumerian political philosophy in Genesis 1:26-28, NIV:

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” (My emphasis.)

The word “may” implies can, by choice . . . “be fruitful”. The Sumerians were polytheists. War between cities and the nations was common. It was unlikely that any nation or culture could imagine leading humankind to fulfill Genesis 1’s responsible-human-independence (RHI), a secular practice. However, 5,000 years later, the 1787 U.S. Constitution proffered an RHI-culture. Practicing RHI requires acceptance-of and pursuit-of human being -- living with god-like abilities.

Beginning in Genesis 2:4, the Jews constructed their monotheism with mysterious communications between their-God and them. Favor was predicated on the law given to Moses and further developed by legislators. Jews who obeyed the law and loved God would be rewarded. A faction predicted an anointed one, Moshiach, to establish their kingdom on earth. Would Moshiach usurp Genesis-1-RHI? I think so, but do not know Judaism.

Early readers translated "anointed one" to the Greek "χρισμένος". A Jewish faction thought Jesus was the Messiah. Translations into English evolved to competitive "Christ", decades and centuries after Jesus died. Both "Messiah" and "Christ" derive from factional Jewish-opinion about Moshiach. However, Jesus offered secular advice outside the Judeo-Christian competition. For example, Matthew 19:3-8, which advocates spousal inseparability, negates one feature of Moses’ law. Humankind can& may benefit from the-secular-Jesus. “Christ” ought not obfuscate Jesus.

Various monotheisms developed “Christ” to promote their Christian orthodoxy. The Ethiopian Tewahedo canon is reportedly the largest and perhaps oldest. The Roman-Catholic Orthodoxy, promoted by Constantine for secular reasons, dominated the Eastern Orthodoxy. The Protestant canon issued in 1560 and Christian sects exponentially increased. None of them extols Jesus above “Christ” and none promote the-secular-Jesus.

I perceive no reason for “policy or predisposition favorable to Jews” or any other faction of humankind, excepting individuals who comprehend, practice, promote, and encourage Genesis-1-RHI, aware of the source or not. Citizens who develop a Gensis-1-RHI culture have the potential to reform humankind to an achievable better future.

And on Twittter:

Anti-Semitism? Words are important; merriamwebster, online.

“Semitism” means “policy or predisposition favorable to Jews”. Should humankind favor Jews?

"Jew" means "a person belonging to a continuation through descent or conversion of the ancient Jewish people".

facebook.com/phil.beaver.52, December 11, 2022
The ultimate, collective human being (verb) seems to pursue comprehensive safety and security on earth, including its extensions. (NASA plans a colony on the moon in 10 years.) The sooner reliable-citizens accept, practice, facilitate, and encourage statutory justice, the sooner each human-being (noun) may responsibly pursue the happiness they perceive, where they are, rather than subjugate-to someone else’s vision for them. The 1787 U.S. Constitution proffers a reliable culture. Reform can& may happen.

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.