Leftist Hand-Wringers Shriek Over “Legality” of Rebooting Cruel Regimes for Victims;
Part I Discovering Donald Trump's Vision of Leadership Ultimately Rooted in Natural Law
Part II Leftist Hand-Wringers Shriek Over “Legality” of Rebooting Cruel Regimes for Victims
Christian Humanism, which can be described as a study in the values of the life of Christ as applied across the board in society?
Consider John Locke, the father of the American Constitution, and how his writings helped establish Natural Rights from Natural Law:
John Locke's theory of natural rights—life, liberty, and property—is deeply rooted in Christian theology, positing that these rights are God-given, inherent, and discovered through reason and divine law, obligating individuals to respect others' inherent worth as God's creation. While Locke used rational arguments for natural law, his ultimate justification for these universal moral duties came from God's will, viewing humanity's shared creation by "Nature's God" as the basis for equality and the foundation for government by consent, not hierarchy.
Consider, Terrible Cultures which Trump, Rubio, Vance and others are Attempting to replace. For example with the fleeing of the Mullahs of Iran what did they stand for and what kind of a society did they create. First as all people know and extreme sexism centers in the heart of the Iranian culture which keeps women from developing their minds or their art. Second the Sharia law lacks due process and so can never be properly applied. Third there was no freedom in this culture, no free speech freedom of movement freedom of belief. So certainly Trump can encourage Islam which does not respect nor encourage various freedoms.
Marxism, By Hook or Crook: Alternatively can one imagine a more destitute or desperate or debauched culture then Marxism always produces? For example Marxism is fixated upon the unfairness of capitalism, but if capitalism is unfair at least there's movement within the society where the ambitious can become more wealthy for their family. But in socialist or communist societies it's always the elites who are wealthy and poverty and disease and rampant murders are a regular element of these societies. For example, 1 out of every 6 Russians was sent into the Gulag of prisons. Stalin murdered 74 million citizens as Mao murdered 76 million, and there may have been 200 million murders and unnecessary deaths from the various Marxist nations.
Marxism & World Suffering: Based on the inevitable misery and suffering inflicted by socialists on the world, why not use the United States military and persuasive savvy to replace worldwide Marxism? After all there are no free elections in socialism, so there's no free economy. The only people who thrive in socialist regimes are the wildly corrupt leaders. Just as Venezuelan people went into the streets by the hundreds of thousands to celebrate the removal of Maduro, so does every single communist Nation create mostly victims while the plebes suffer mostly silently. So, they won't be murdered and why not reboot the entire Earth and get rid of murderous socialism, en masse?!!
Christian Humanism: From GotQuestions: Let’s be honest, government programs exported to other destroyed nations will never solve their problems. Instead, we need an enlightened approach to help address the grave dangers left after a tyranny is ended.
Christian humanism maintains that humans have dignity and value by being created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). How we autonomous, rational, and moral agents itself reflects being created with the imago dei. Human worth is assumed in many places in Scripture.
Christian scholars such as Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and Calvin were advocates of Christian humanism, although they did not call it that. Today, the term Christian humanism is used to describe the viewpoints of writers as varied as Fyodor Dostoevsky, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Christian humanism is biblical insofar as it holds to the biblical view of man—a responsible moral agent created in God’s image but fallen into sin. Christian humanism becomes less Christian the more it compromises with secular humanism, which promotes humanity to godlike status.
WHY BRING CHRISTIANITY INTO GOVT? So, a huge Issue arises as we discuss the notion of natural law as fortified by Christianity as a model for rebooting states. For, what right would anyone in the government have in using as a goal, and philosophical system, one imbued with Christian theology? And the answer to this is very simple. Because most people realize that philosophy on its own is sterile, but on the other hand, Christianity for the last several thousand years has been the most dynamic and human-friendly system of thought, helping build the European & American, and their colonies outline and so the history of this being successful is established and totally undeniable. In other words, make these rebuilt societies operate on Enlightenment standard, which encompasses informed variations of Humanism.
Globe Hates Christianity: The United States is not going to get World support if it claims it wants to rebuild every country on a Christian foundation because each country keeps its own right of self-definition. But, instead if we use New Natural Rights as the model, we can include in the natural law aspect, also the Christian humanistic focus on the care and support and defense of human society implied in the Sermon on the Mount and Golden Rule -- Do unto others as you would have done unto you,,,and don’t forget the parable of the Samaritan, dying on the side of the road before a kind stranger intervened. And so this is the way to go forward, but to deny NNLT would mean sowing disaster into these rebooted societies that have barely survived Marxist infiltration, and could be coopted by a new evil leader.
SUMMARY: Trump attempts at rebooting horrific global regimes is based on the following facts:
Remember, every human has the right to the following: 1. Life; 2. Knowledge; 3. Play; 4. Aesthetic Experience; 5. Sociability (friendship); 6. Practical Reasonableness; 7. ‘Religion’
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Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.
