Reader James Baxter emailed an on-target reaction to and amplification of the posting titled A Federal Republic, Not a Democracy. He points out that individualism, the foundation stone of our Constitution, is a product of Christianity, which for the first time in history gave each person, as an individual, a direct path of communication with God. The point of atheistic socialism is to close that channel and to interpose The Great Oz, the collective state, as the only arbiter of human conduct.
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The Old World method of measuring human value was, and still is, by the group. Whether tribe, clan, city-state, color, ethnic, or gender, the Old World, ancient and modern, measures by the plural unit. Individuals had and have no value of themselves, but only as they were and are part of a collective.
When Y’shua Jesus died on the cross, the veil of the Temple at the Holy of Holies parted from the top down. The individual believer in the congregation had, for the first time, a face-to-face, one-on-one relation with his Creator. The Creator, Himself, had validated each individual for the first time. Thus, the Individual became the cornerstone for later human value measuring systems: socio-political, philosophical, religious, educational, economic, etc., henceforth and forever. Western Civilization, America, English Law, civil Rights, the ‘democratic’ process, etc., all sprang from that single event. (Greco-Roman ‘democracies’ were 95% slave throughout their entire histories.) Biblical principles are still today the foundation under Western Civilization and the American way of life.
Many social systems attempt to borrow ideas of “democracy” without the basic premise in The Individual. Such a system is only superficially and temporarily ‘democratic.’ The cornerstone of the democratic process is The Individual and the cornerstone of the value of The Individual is Y’shua Jesus! It is not possible to have one with-out the other. There is only One Source - there is no other.
It is additionally interesting to note that all value measuring systems are based on the single definitive unit of the system. Ex: Number,(Mathematics), Time, Distance, Weight, Heat, Money, Angle, Volume, etc. Only humanism makes the abusive error of measuring human value by the plural unit and attempts to build social structures, relations, and institutions thereon. Such man-made systems can only be abusive and oppressive because in reality there are only individual persons. Groups or collectives are merely convenient verbalizations about individuals. They are not reality.
I have yet to see a ‘group.’ All I have ever seen are individuals. Have you ever seen a group - or is it a verbal convenience? Reality is only in the individual person. And, such a validation never derived from a human source without the initiative of the Creator. (The French Rationalists of the 18th Century favored the fruit - but rejected the branch, tree, and root.)
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