So contrary to the christian dogma, our founders were men of the enlightenment empiricism and reason who understood the common people needed their religion yet saw the organized church as hostile to the people.
The uniquenss of the anglosphere and america is that we are bound by rule of law of the natural law – and left behind the corruption of the aristocracy, the church, and the lazy indolent peasantry.
Reply addressees: @GEsenhourn @anneapplebaum
Source date (UTC): 2023-05-12 13:04:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657008958857420802
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1657003679046680576
IN REPLY TO:
Unknown author
I am a jeffersonian christian, in that jesus was a philosopher only able to speak in the language and logic of his location and time, and the church was a politica system that sought to bring cheap semitic rule by superstition where costly european rule by reason – an aristocatic method – was ‘challenging’ to bring to the wider word of vast underclasses made worse by the prosperity the aristocacy had created giving slaves, underclasses and women the relative safety and choice that for the first time ’empowered’ them at least a little bit.
So I am loyal to the truth: the laws of nature. Christianity despite it’s church nonsense and superstition does inform us how to produce a higher trust society more prepared for economic prosperity by treating everyone as a customer – of cooperation. It’s utility-bearing but not true.
This means I am opposed to hostile religions, and tolerant of christian superstition of the peasantry. But I am and always will be aristocracy: sovereignty, liberty, and freedom, under rule of law insured by force of arms. As such my loyalty is to the people regardless of their weakness or folly.
And, the duty of the peasantry, as jesus counseled, is to be loyal to the aristocracy in matters of reality (the state).
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1657003679046680576
Leave a Reply