Witness for the Truth

We know that fundamentally, both the conservative and liberal parties in the United States government have essentially the same goal. That is, they both seek to formulate and arrange the governing powers in a way that best lends itself to giving access and appropriating what we understand to be those “self evident truths”. Mainly, that every human being has an equal God given right to experience a freedom from oppression and the opportunity to thrive in the pursuit of happiness.

This is the strange thing that I have noticed in the affinity the American Christian has with the conservative party: Namely that the Church has nearly adjoined itself as being one in purpose with the conservatives. Why? And what lies at the bottom of it?

It is always tied to morality. Why then would it be dangerous for the Church to affiliate itself with a political party? Because at the core of the conservative party’s ideology is that the highest good is man’s happiness, and the fulfilling of this rests on every individual somehow being able to care for his neighbor while working to attain what is best for him.

Why is that bad? Because its definition of happiness is pagan. The conservative party says that true happiness is found in prosperity. This we know is counter to Christian doctrine. The conservative Christians have their identity rooted in this humanism and not in Christ. Oh, let them say what they will! Let them go on their babbling rant; distorting the difference between Christianity and Capitalism. Always forgetting that the way of God is one of submission and selflessness. Do they not realize that this whole country was founded upon rebellion and self interest? How ironical is it that these are the same people who accredit themselves with being so patriotic and loyal. Sure I suppose that they are patriotic and loyal; but the irony lies in the fact that it is to rebelliousness! So the real cry is this: “Come all of you who are good and moral. Adjoin yourselves to us and pledge us your loyalty. Together we can stand in our unwavering pursuit of satisfying our mutual self-interest individually.”

Instead of trying to wrap-up such an enormous idea on this topic in one post, I believe I will make it a multiple-part discourse. And in staying true to my method and rule of writing, which is: writing by no method at all, I will continue in no certain logical progression from what I have said here! And to let you know, it is helpful when people comment or have questions or arguments about the soundness of my thinking in coming to such conclusions; seeing how it occasions the opportunity for myself to become aware of how I got there, because my ideas are products of the combination of all the means by which a man gains understanding.