The measure of human behavior and individual character is the absorption or rejection of value systems. Just as black is the absence of all visible wave lengths of reflected light, so too is “goodness” the absence of antisocial and anti-American behavior. While people vary widely, there are large numbers of people who have absorbed a complete spectrum of value systems. Value systems are typically derived from faith, not from radiation, reflection, osmosis, social warming, congressional legislation or accidental discovery. Absorbing value systems and an education, in lieu of an indoctrination, is essential for civilized society to continue as we once enjoyed it. Use of the past tense was intentional.
While they profess to be conservatives, many fellow citizens and most congressmen are pretenders to conservatism.
Every educated American, regardless of their faith or lack of it, would agree that value systems based on Christianity were the embedded principles underlying the United States Constitution and related founding documents. Our nation's Christian heritage wasn’t by coincidence or an accident of nature. Those were the beliefs of our nation’s founders. In fact, many of our laws, centuries old, also have their origins in Christianity (not Islam).
Can value systems (ethical commandments) be based on something other than Christianity? Certainly.
Which brings us squarely to the question: Are you aware of a value system, any value system, you would prefer to the ethical commandments associated with Christianity? The value system of Islam maybe?
Just as with the spectrum of colors, there is a spectrum of value systems from which to choose, including 'none' at one extreme, the absence of all value systems. Is 'none' your choice, both for yourself and American society? If so, a preference for 'none' must then also apply to any sense of social organization and cohesion.
Hopefully it will not shock you to learn that without social organization and cultural cohesion, anarchy and ethnic civil war is an almost certainty due to the simple fact there is no other outcome than ethnic strife in similar circumstances in the history of the human race.
The value system of a group of people, or an entire nation, often reveal the human condition that can be expected in the future as a result of the predominant value system. Culture evolves from value systems, not the other way around. The United States evolved from its original value system. Israel evolved from its original value system. Saudi Arabia evolved from its value system. The correlation between a particular value system and preferences for social, economic and political systems is irrefutable.
It is important to point out that social, economic and political systems have no value systems. They are belief systems, i.e., ideologies based on elitism and the worthlessness of everyone else. Proponents of Marxism pursued their ideology for two centuries with a fervor equal to a faith, and continue today. Socialism is the religion of self-interest - absent God. Socialism is a belief system that has not one success story in the history of mankind. Just as I cannot prove to you that God exists, you cannot prove that God does not exist. We both embrace our views with faith - as a religion.
The difference is that all faiths have value systems. Social, economic and political systems do not. They have only goals, or preferences, for social and economic organization. Islam is a perfect example.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” is a social goal or economic preference, but not the component of a value system, such as “thou shalt not kill,” or “thou shalt not commit adultery.”
If you identify yourself as a conservative, your value systems likely have their basis somewhere in Christianity's ethical commandments. If you do not view yourself as a conservative, what is your value system? European and United States' liberals have chosen to worship government as if it were God, substituting government for God. Americans of African heritage, or Muslim extraction, have chosen to worship hate - hatred of anybody or anything not dedicated to the supremacy of people of African heritage - i.e., black lliberation theology - the bastard offspring of Islam.
Specifically? Can you articulate your value system? Where did it come from? What are the principles upon which you frame your behavior and conduct your life? Upon what, exactly, is your behavior based? What tenets guide your actions and are taught to your children? Should all individuals in our society base their behavior on your example? Are your value systems self-determined? Are you perhaps the only person who believes exactly as you do. Are there many others? Where is your value system written? By whom has your system been adopted?
As a cohesive non-conservative group, what is the social, political and economic record of that segment of the world’s population that has lived for some length of time by your value system? Have they prospered and been counted among the greatest of societies, or have they been reduced to servitude and human squalor?
The point is that a nation of 300 million people cannot function on 300 million different value systems and individualized sets of laws, let alone ten, five or three. There has to be one unified basis for civilized behavior in America, derived from some value system, some faith, some epiphany which becomes the basis for an orderly society and its laws.
What is the value system articulated by secularists? Where is it codified? What is its history? To whom is it being taught? How has it benefitted mankind?
What is the value system articulated by Muslims? Is the Islamic value system and cultural success your wish for your children (assuming human life still has some value in your belief system)?
You can clearly see that contrasting value systems, grounded in divergent faiths and cults, are trying to co-exist in the Middle East and other parts of the world. Will they be successful? Has it ever been successful? No. Nor will a similarly ill-advised national experiment without value systems (or opposing value systems) be successful in America! Our only choice is between Christianity and Islam, because Islam will not tolerate any form of Christianity or secularism.
In contrast to religion and individual faith, and associated value systems, secularism is the indifference to, or rejection of, or exclusion of religion and religious considerations in public and private life, which includes all value systems (ethical commandments), derived from Christianity such as the Ten Commandments.
When Christian value systems are removed from public discourse, they are removed from public buildings, schools, signage, currency, media, art, entertainment, sports, pledge of allegiance, etc. Spoken prayer is expunged. Spoken statements of personal faith are punished. Personal articles of faith are prohibited.
What is the intent? The stated intent is each individual’s right not to be “forced” to adopt a faith of another person or group of people. That “right” has somehow been extrapolated and extended to the removing of all visible and spoken trappings of Christianity (and with them, the associated value systems of Christianity).
What then are the value systems we are encouraged to live by? If not Christianity, Islam? No value system? Are you sure that is what you want? Be careful what you wish for. If there is no unifying national value system, there will be nothing to live by, no generally-accepted rules of civilized society, nothing to teach to our nation’s youth.
Because Christianity is rapidly being removed from America and replaced with nothing, we are now all learning to live our lives by the rules of “nothingness.” What if it comes to pass that you must live in a world of “nothingness,” where if asked what is right or wrong, because everything is relative, you (or even a President of the United States) can answer, ‘It depends.” That is, at least until Islam imposes the answer. Again, for emphasis, unify under Christianity or plan that your children will worship Allah, whether they want to or not.
It really is your choice.
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