PoliticalChic
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1.Partners can work together, yet still have differences. So was it with the two powers that produced the greatest human environment ever to form on this planet, Western Civilization. Western civilization was built on two ideas:
God created every human in His image
......and human beings are able to investigate and make rational conclusions about the world.
These two ideas were born in Jerusalem and Athens, respectively.
2. While the two cultures each added to our greatness, Judaic spiritual revelation, and Greek reasoning, in some ways they were irreconcilable. Each understood the nature of God very differently.
āWhere Judaism posited an active God in the universe, Greek thought posited an Unmoved Mover largely unconcerned with human affairs. āThe changeless, Unmoved Mover was the God of Plato and Aristotle,āā¦.Judaism believed, as Greek thought did, in a God who stood behind creation; but unlike Greek reason, Judaism also saw Godās presence in human events,ā¦.God was intimately involved, in this view, with manās actions.ā Ben Shapiro, āThe Right Side Of History,ā p. 55-56
3. We can see the two views incorporated from the very start of Americaās creation. Our Founders were steeped in the classicsā¦..in fact, education usually required Latin before it slipped to the current levelā¦.but chose religion, the Bible, the Judeo-Christian faith, as their primary influence. These first Americans saw our break with the King as the Jews escaping the Pharaoh.
āā¦the influence of the Exodus story on the ethos of the American Revolution. So powerful was this influence in 1776 that Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams suggested that the Great Seal of the United States should include an image of Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea. A different committee subsequently chose another image--a pyramid!ā The Great Seal of the United States
4. And our Founders continued the choice of Jerusalem over Athens in their views of God. While secularists claim the latter, i.e., that the Founders were Deists, they were not. The truth about American's founders is...all of whom, even if some did not individually adhere to orthodox Christianity, were steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
The Greek view was what we call āDeism.ā
deā¢ism
noun
belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind. Google
The notion that any of the Founders believed in an impersonal deity who merely created the universe and then left it to itself is false. All of them believed in a God who, as Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention, āgoverns in the affairs of men.ā
Hereās what we can say for certain about their religious beliefs.
a) All of the Founders believed in a transcendent God, that is, a Creator who exists outside of nature.
b) All the Founders believed in a God who imposes moral obligations on human beings
c) All the Founders believed in a God who punishes bad behavior and rewards good behavior in an afterlife."
Clearly, that is siding with Jerusalem over Athens.
The savior of the secularists was born on this day.....May 5, 1818.
Karl Marx.
Choose who you follow.
God created every human in His image
......and human beings are able to investigate and make rational conclusions about the world.
These two ideas were born in Jerusalem and Athens, respectively.
2. While the two cultures each added to our greatness, Judaic spiritual revelation, and Greek reasoning, in some ways they were irreconcilable. Each understood the nature of God very differently.
āWhere Judaism posited an active God in the universe, Greek thought posited an Unmoved Mover largely unconcerned with human affairs. āThe changeless, Unmoved Mover was the God of Plato and Aristotle,āā¦.Judaism believed, as Greek thought did, in a God who stood behind creation; but unlike Greek reason, Judaism also saw Godās presence in human events,ā¦.God was intimately involved, in this view, with manās actions.ā Ben Shapiro, āThe Right Side Of History,ā p. 55-56
3. We can see the two views incorporated from the very start of Americaās creation. Our Founders were steeped in the classicsā¦..in fact, education usually required Latin before it slipped to the current levelā¦.but chose religion, the Bible, the Judeo-Christian faith, as their primary influence. These first Americans saw our break with the King as the Jews escaping the Pharaoh.
āā¦the influence of the Exodus story on the ethos of the American Revolution. So powerful was this influence in 1776 that Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams suggested that the Great Seal of the United States should include an image of Moses leading the Israelites through the Red Sea. A different committee subsequently chose another image--a pyramid!ā The Great Seal of the United States
4. And our Founders continued the choice of Jerusalem over Athens in their views of God. While secularists claim the latter, i.e., that the Founders were Deists, they were not. The truth about American's founders is...all of whom, even if some did not individually adhere to orthodox Christianity, were steeped in the Judeo-Christian tradition.
The Greek view was what we call āDeism.ā
deā¢ism
noun
belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. The term is used chiefly of an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries that accepted the existence of a creator on the basis of reason but rejected belief in a supernatural deity who interacts with humankind. Google
The notion that any of the Founders believed in an impersonal deity who merely created the universe and then left it to itself is false. All of them believed in a God who, as Franklin said at the Constitutional Convention, āgoverns in the affairs of men.ā
Hereās what we can say for certain about their religious beliefs.
a) All of the Founders believed in a transcendent God, that is, a Creator who exists outside of nature.
b) All the Founders believed in a God who imposes moral obligations on human beings
c) All the Founders believed in a God who punishes bad behavior and rewards good behavior in an afterlife."
Clearly, that is siding with Jerusalem over Athens.
The savior of the secularists was born on this day.....May 5, 1818.
Karl Marx.
Choose who you follow.