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The Fallacy of Equal Liberty
By Winston McCuen, dasboot@mindspring.com No religious idea is more unpopular and detested these days than the Biblical-Christian notion of Judgment, when each person will stand before the throne of the all-powerful and all-knowing God and be compelled to give an account of hi slife, and then to receive his eternal reward. Correspondingly, no political idea is more unpopular and detested these days than the Providential truth that true liberty or freedom for man in this earthly life is a reward for moral and intellectual virtue; and that slavery, when we find it historically, is in nearly every case a just punishment of the slave for his own ignorance, laziness, and moral depravity. These two ideas - the notion of Judgment, and the Providential character of liberty and slavery - are closely related. They both have to do with justice, or with each person receiving his due. [...] The grand irony - and indeed the grand tragedy - of American political history and experience is that [...] liberty [as] a reward for virtue was, over the course of time, replaced by a very different view of human freedom. Today, in America, liberals and pet conservatives, Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians all agree that every adult individual, excepting criminals and the insane, should enjoy a degree of freedom that is equal to that of everyone else. [...] But, of course, our envy-ridden egalitarians can delude themselves and others for only so long. Because, no matter how hellish they manage to make this earthly life for their fellow men; the justice which they have expended such great effort in avoiding and mocking in this earthly life will come back on them a thousand and more fold in the life after. For in the end, God and His justice will not be mocked. (Erschienen in "The South Carolina Patriot", Fall 2001) |
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Ach die - das sind doch die, die Spocks Ohren auf den ersten Ankündigungen für Star Trek wegretuschieren liessen, weil er zu "satanisch" aussah...
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