The Problem with Progressivism | Highlights Ep.24
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- The American Founders believed that the principles of the Declaration and the Constitution were not simply preferences for their own day, but were truths that the sovereign and moral people of America could always rely on as guides in their pursuit of happiness. This course considers the principles of the American Founding-which are described most famously and concisely in the Declaration of Independence-as well as key features of American government based on those principles. Led by Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn, the course also examines the major challenges posed by Progressivism to American constitutionalism.
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Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.
The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.
By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.
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Less government intrusion more personal freedom and responsibility
Thank God for Hillsdale College.
I love the way you pull wisdom out of these youngsters, it gives an old man hope.
My hope is that these youngsters don't use that wisdom to become even more evil progressives. Cause thats a easy thing to do.
The focus of the Declaration and the Constitution is on principles. Principles should be the foundation stones of government. Unprincipled government becomes anarchy and ultimately tyranny. God help our country!
We're already there.
I agree that is already happening….
The principles were slavery and subjugation.
@@sentientflower7891 You're an ignoramus. Blindly believing lies you've been told rather than researching the truth for yourself.
@@sentientflower7891 Do you believe in a better "progressive" society without slavery and subjugation? Are you going to create it? They have already tried many times and always with the same result - more tyranny and more bloody slavery. Democracy may exist for a while as the rule of organized individual slave owners. Economic prosperity leads to "progressive" ideas, they lead to the formal abolition of slavery and to universal suffrage, which leads to ochlocracy. Ochlocracy ends in tyranny. Tyranny ends in the chaos of domination by tribal anarchy or organized crime. From now on, when new individual slave owners appear, human society can start with democracy again, and then go around in a new circle of life. The well-educated ancient Greeks learned this 500 years before Christ.The best we can do is prolong the time of democracy, but we have already missed this opportunity.
Self-reliance creates vitality; State-reliance creates atrophy.
California pays for welfare in Red States.
The Founding Fathers had slaves.
@@sentientflower7891 Yet the founding fathers’ good ideas about governance [macro level] and self-reliance/responsibility [micro level] has proven to FAR outweigh/transcend their quite bad ideas about holding slaves. Nor are the founding fathers’ good ideas somehow “nullified“ by the fact that some were slaveowners. Nobody is perfect or perfectable. Not even leftists. Careful where you point that mirror.
-a former Democrat
@@cfibb genocide, slavery and apartheid aren't redeemable sins.
@@sentientflower7891...grumbles the un-ironic, collectivist type with a murderous cure-all, lecturing everyone of every race from every civilization EVER that genocide, slavery and apartheid are not redeemable sins. No one said they were great things. Except for Stalin and perhaps a zillion other dictators. Also, no one is asking for your forgiveness.
NOTE: The founding fathers did not invent slavery. Or genocide. Or apartheid. These things have been around since PEOPLE have been around, perpetrated by every race/religion/creed/ethnicity/haircut against every other kind of race/religion/creed/ethnicity/haircut...
often one’s own. Welcome to human beings in history.
Yeah...but you still WANT something don't you? Life is so unfair.
Understanding that this is yet again a whiny power grab by a cultural/political side that always (ALWAYS) promotes grievance over responsibility, the rest of us aren't particularly moved by the finger-wagging.
We can wade into the weeds of disparity too if you wanna go there...
Brilliant! Indeed, human nature does not change. The core motivations of a farmer are every bit the same as those of the technocrat. We all desire survival and pleasure, and want to get away from pain, disease and drudgery. Yet, we benefit from hard work and humility.
@William Satire SIWTSDS!
You say that but I notice that when things come easy without effort. You have no sense of accomplishment and boredom sets in.
@@AmazingStoryDewd I noticed that, too, but then I noticed that I was the one controlling whether or not I had a sense of accomplishment. I controlled whether or not the feeling was one of boredom.
There is perception (effect) and there is creation (cause). A watched pot "never" boils; and time flies when you're having fun.
And in between both of these sits you -- either allowing things to move forward by default, or actively taking responsibility.
@@depiction3435 How so?
@@RodMartinJr Great quote! Thank you for that
I'm so thankful for this college and it's stance on the Constitution and what it represents to us who consider ourselves patriots. I'm glad to see young minds learning real history and how it applies today. God bless! 🇺🇸
Dr. Arnn is a national treasure. I've had the privilege of meeting him twice, and he's every bit as delightful in person as he is on video. If only he could educate our entire nation's youth, we'd be far better off as a country.
If the citizens of any country want their votes to be counted accurately they have to take counting them as seriously as they take counting their money.
But through the lord we must try every day.
We can see the Dems do just that... they print new votes out of the blue just as quickly as they print new money out of the blue.
@@cherylmockotr And don't forget: "10% for the Big Guy!"
@@theophrastus3.056 On both counts none the less.
The problem is they love wealth and power not the truth or God .
Perfect guidance, for me is the Bible which I read and try to abide by It. Whatever humans would do is imperfect and subject to corruption and downfall, the further we are from God's Word the worse off we are.
And when progressive policies fail, put the blame on the other guy.
Makes me wonder…in the simplest terms…too many people lie-not just to others but to themselves
Watching this is interesting. An educator teaching but also listening. Giving the student room to speak and have open dialog and share their thoughts. Unlike universities today where students are lectured to and are indoctrinated. They are also discouraged from speaking unless they repeat what's told to them.
Cannot believe I didn’t know about this college as a teenager. I’ve been robbed of my education by my own government.
No you have been robbed by greedy rich people.
@@blogintonblakley2708 same thing. More Government is not the solution. Limiting it is. Same goes for corporations that control the government to undermine and control society.
@@blogintonblakley2708 You need to move to a place that fits you. A deserted island where you can live in solitary and experience the fruits of your own efforts without having to put up with other people.
@@callmelegendawight8298 If you don't like what I'm saying... you are welcome to move. See, how authoritarian you try to be?
@@blogintonblakley2708 You don't understand the term authoritarian. I give you the option that seem to best fit with your angry tirades over how oppressed you are by societal systems. If that's the case. you would be much happier in solitary existence where you control your own environment. Or, as my freedom system allows, you can live under this "oppressive" system. Your choice. You can even stay and bitch about it as you seem to enjoy doing. But I bet you'd be happier all alone.You seem to forget that you were ranting on society as the source of all ills.
Larry Elder for California Governor! Spread the word everywhere, especially cali residents!
be an advocate, get the word out! theres not much time... the election is in less than 2 months, sept 14th!
This election is all about turnout and might be the only serious shot we get to turn the state red!
For freedom.
Lets gooo!!!!
"You can lose a fight, but you can't win a surrender." - Andrew Klavan
He would do an amazing job with California. He is such a brilliant man
@William Satire www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-voting-history/ The state changed with legal and illegal immigration. No wonder Biden and Harris won’t defend your southern border. Your states a mess, you need a change.
If I could start my post-secondary education over again, it would include Hillsdale. So excellent.
Agreed!!!👍
You want to go to Trump College?
With the power of the modern internet, you can. I've listened through almost 70 courses now, including almost all of the courses at Yale Open Courses. I've only discovered Hillsdale College's catalogue of courses a couple days ago, but I am now committed to doing these too--completing every single one if I can. I am taking these courses so that I can pass on as much as I can to future generations. These courses are eye-opening. I'm even starting to get into STEM, particularly mathematics, while I was absolutely uninterested in math growing up. I hope that these courses remain accessible and eventually overwhelm the typical videos that most young people watch on UA-cam. Our country and planet would be better for it, I believe.
I'm glad to see young students dealing with these issues and being prepared to take the cause of liberty to a wider world. Thanks Hillsdale
Yes, just what the rest of the world needs, Americans spreading Democracy.
@@tomlopez7819 yes. This is certainly what we need. True democracy! Not the Bs in the white house being tyrants,and dictators.
@@tomlopez7819 Do you live in the USA 🇺🇸?
This is the first time i have seen this guy. Who is he? Ill be subbing. Great stuff.
Though I am not a fan of the roundtable discussion format, and have taken a few courses at Hillsdale with a couple in progress at the moment due to busyness, this brief segment was excellent.
I am a Hillsdale supporter under my real name, not this comment handle.
The Federalist Papers is a magnificent course - I was awed by the comments of the Founders' sheer brilliance.
Thanks Hillsdale, Dr Arn (Larry, who loves S Dakota for...no speed limits...and of course Gov Kristi...Presidential material I'd say 28 maybe? Vice Pres in 24?), the students and staff and all supporters and guest speakers, etc. of this amazing institution.
Almost like a school of theology, wasn't it. Is Hillsdale a seminary??
@@lorenelkin9415
No Loren, it's a very old conservative Liberal Arts College I believe that is strong on the tradition of a Classical liberal Education. Where you read and study great literature, history, philosophy and understand the importance of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, in the classical sense, and I should add, exemplary character.
Heavily Christian in it's view of who God is and the Bible but practical in application of those principles and patriotic in it's attitude toward America and its founders.
I'm a 71 year old guy with high school ed Loren and have taken a number of the free online courses there. Most very enlightening and give you a deep appreciation of our country and freedoms, and the magnificent constitution that was given to us.
Hope that helps, but ping me with questions if you like, or better yet, give them a call.
Best to you.
Any form of government will work if the people are virtuous and no form of government will work if the people are corrupt!
Real Education ("Classical" logic, reasonings, debate, questioning.) Bring it back!
The problem with progressivism is that you become so open minded is that your brain actually starts to fall out your head.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
This is reason why I want to go to this university
The problem with progressivism is its actually regressivism
more explanation needed?
relentlessmadman Since the focus of progressivism is consolidating power (in a federal bureaucracy of experts), instead of distributing it (between legislative, executive and judicial branches that can check each other), it’s really a return to a pre-Constitutional form of government - more of an oligarchy, than a representative republic.
@@scoobyDoo51280 It also wants to return people to their class or group rather than be thought of as a responsible individual. It takes away personal freedom and tries to instead give a kind of freedom from responsibility based on which group you may be considered a part.
Please?
To my thinking, Progressivism is the logical fruit of Secular Humanism. Since Humanism implies there is no God, then the natural order is that Humans must be Gods, and gods, and then....on down the line. This is Chaos.
The end will result in the New Feudalism. There will be the Elites, their satraps, and then the rest of us. it's already here in structure. We have the Elites - that's for sure - their satraps who actually do the everyday heavy lifting for them - the beaurocrats, who make and enforce the rules, levy fees and taxes, and arrest you - all without representation, and then we have Us.
The professor is correct: We are of two minds. One, the Fallen Kind. The other, the Redeemed. Failure to acknowledge the truth in this will bring the Chaos.
It always remains Good vs Evil. We intuitively know the essence of each. The Golden Rule still applies. Do unto you neighbors as you would have them do unto you, has changed into the corrupted, do unto your neighbors as they have done unto you. Whoever makes the first evaluation steers the argument. The Inferiority complex and envy are the roots of all evil.
thank God for Hillsdale College.
The incidence of sociopathy and psychopathy (rarer) in society is a perpetual issue and such people are keen to attain and wield power over others. Their aspirations combined, with a lack of moral restraint, enables them to tell people what they want to hear, to wear the facade required to beguile people into giving them power.
thank God the future is looking bright
Very brilliant, humble man.
c.2:00 "the true genius of the Constitution was separating the sovereignty from the power" - concise but so spot on. bravo!
Pray an act of perfect contrition everyday
Thank You!
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Excellent!
GREAT AND THANKS
This a great video. Technology changes, people, i.e., human nature does not.
Keep up the great work. Thank you.
Hillsdale College needs to create a certification by which other universities with the will to do it can come alongside this teaching and curriculum and education process so more than just Hillsdale can be doing this.
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Good on ya, Hillsdale!
on point.
with freedom and individual liberty comes the requirement of responsibility and ongoing effort. that is where progressives always win in every society to the point the society fails ultimately. Because with the ascendency of freedom, people are free to find success and capitalize off of it. Once capitalized, the quality of life improves for that person and ultimately everyone around them (assuming the society is a free democratic republic). Once the quality of life has risen to a certain point for most, then what once was a luxury that was worked hard for and earned is then passed on to those who have no idea how hard someone else had to work to earn it. That is when things fall apart for that society. Because people have a tendency to become lazy with generational luxury and once threatened with having to actually work to maintain luxury or "freedoms", these generations that inherited a society that was earned will squander it. A lesson of history that is always ignored, ridiculed and taken for granted...
The problem with labels is that it limits our ability as a human race to connect to the heart of what is real and what is the next right step. We live in an energetic Universe where everything around us including ourselves comprises of atoms and molecules. Our thoughts are energy, our emotions are energy. What we see with our eyes, we believe and perpetuate by aligning with them. This includes the labels imposed upon us by doninant cultures like the term "conservative" and "progressive." When our leaders can learn to suspend judgement and get BEYOND "The Hatfield & McCoy" mentality, a space opens for collaborating with each other harmoniously. The suspension of judgement will then create a space for REAL SOLUTIONS to emerge! But it will NEVER HAPPEN if we keep focusing on LABELS! There is a saying, "Where our attention goes ENERGY FLOWS, and where energy flows GROWS". What does HUMANITY want to grow more of? More of the same or something new and better?
i love your wall.
I love 4 walls that protect me from the elements! I love not having to live in a cave! Of what wall do you speak?
@@relentlessmadman the wall on which there is reproduction of "the declaration of independence" by trumbull
I would have liked to see the Professor's entire session with these students. Where may I find this? A teaser is but that. Where did the teaching turn after the end of our glimpse? I am not sure I can like, or dislike based on the brevity of the content.
In one of my essays I take Dewey behind the woodshed because the idea that we must now think differently since it is a new world is just an old idea looking for a new audience.
It all boils down to nature/Super Nature; one reflecting the other and recognizing Super Nature is our guide, has all power and knowledge because it is our source! Being progressive is progressing in the right direction.
GOD Bless The USA and The World
GOD Bless President Trump and The Leaders Of The World
GOD Bless Those Representing and Defending The Civil Rights and Liberties Of Every American Citizen
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For a view on this based on the philosophy of Herman Dooyeweerd, see the undergraduate philosophy textbook “The Myth of Religious Neutrality” ch. 10-13 by Roy A Clouser (of course understand ch. 10-13 requires understand ch. 1-6) Available on amazon, amazon blurb “written for undergraduates, the educated layperson, and scholars in fields other than philosophy”
it frustrates me to no end when my progressive friends complain about all the horrible government policies. and they're solution is to give the government more unchecked power.
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When I hear the word 'progressive' I think progressing toward what, then what?
*_Hutch, with many others, it's been my opinion that LEFTIST's use of the word "progressive" has ALWAYS been part of their efforts as a means of duping, indoctrinating, etc._* Where, IN FACT, there is absolutely NOTHING "progressive" about them. They ARE LEFTISTS; textbook anti-liberty LEFTISTS. *_I refuse to play their BIG LIE propaganda word games: they are pro-big state LEFTISTS and in any democracy, their anti-liberty notions need to be crushed and trash-canned._*
Progression to women's rights, labor rights and civil rights.
New to this channel and loving it. Great work here.
It has always seemed to me that one of the main problems with progressivism is the concept of progressing. It kind of implies fashion over actual effect.
My clumsy rhyme about it is- 'A progressive is no longer a progressive if he ever stops progressing on anything.'
Because they cant stop moving forward, they cant ever settle on a good idea. By defualt, they wind up changing everything, even their own ideas.
And thats how we got 72 gender pronouns.
Im sure that some deep thinker from the past has already said this much better than i have. If anybody could point me in that direction, it would be appereciated.
You need to read a history book.
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Witch one?
@@ronfox5519 start with elementary school and work your way up.
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Oh. I thought you were being serious.
@@ronfox5519 I am being serious. Did you go to school?
The solution to the problems of modern America is to return to strict application of the Constitution. This would remove power from the federal government and return it to the states and individuals. Cutting the federal government obligations to only those constitutionally allowed would reduce the cost of the federal government to around 1/20th to 1/40th of what we spend. The power acquired with distributing the amount of money it taxes and spends is what has corrupted it so badly. But if the amount of money is drastically cut and the constraints on how much the federal government can do is increased then the desire and reward to seek that power at any cost is greatly reduced
A millennium ago, Catholic Cannon highlighted the seven deadly sins along with its counter-balancing seven heavenly virtues. Some 500 years ago, William Shakespeare put keen emphasis on the seven deadly sins again in his character Mordred in the play Camelot. Obviously, all of this was originally highlighted in the Bible over millennia, which keenly states that “Man is born a sinner.” And of course, the Apostle Paul wrote it out first in his letters to the people of Corinth (Corinthians 13).
Truth is, we don’t have to look far throughout recorded time for evidence of this dyadic - and absolute - tenet of the human condition. Every one of us has both good and bad in us. I personally like how Dr Jordan Peterson puts it: we - each of us - have the capacity for evil.
So, the question is: how do we control it? The oft answer almost always leads to some form of collective governance, yet again, I point to Peterson, who as a psychologist points to the individual. THAT is where any form of governance starts. Yes, sure… there ultimately needs to be a form of communal governance; after all, humans are social creatures. My pastor put it in brilliant form in his sermon this morning (about the loaves and fishes parable - John 6: 1-16): “Our humanity is connected to our proximity.”
Our Founders knew the perils and absolute destruction of this dark side of the human condition, ie, the seven deadly sins. They knew the sway and slippery slope it proffered. And that is precisely why they wrote our Constitution the way they did with the ubiquitous “checks and balances” approach.
More recently, former Justice Antonin Scalia (RIP) scoffed at European leaders who mocked and criticized our form of government by saying, “it is messy!… it is gridlock!” Yes, it can be. And it can be a rather maddening process to work through it all. YET, it is a beautifully - and I believe divinely - inspired form of governance that protects the individual sovereignty “endowed by our creator” from the pursuits of power and control by anyone, by the slippery slope of the seven deadly sins. More than anything, though, such individual sovereignty must be fueled and constantly reinforced by the individual pursuit of good. We all must awaken our own desire to embody the seven heavenly virtues: faith, hope, charity, prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice.
BOTTOMLINE: this struggle ain’t new, y’all. Not by a long shot.
Brilliant comment and contribution to the video.
I’ve laminated and saved the seven deadly sins and seven heavenly virtues just because I saw wisdom.
You are right about the significance of the individual and organizing yourself before you critique the world.
Shakespeare's play "Camelot"? What are you smoking?
p.s. The "seven deadly sins" are not Biblical... you should not take them seriously. Essentially all sins are deadly (for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God) and none are (for God so loved the world, etc.).
When we fail to hand down truth to our children, we all fail. All men and women are not created equal. We are all special in our own way. God made everyone of us different and special in our own way. When we fail to educate, we discriminate. God loves all, not just a select few.
Today, the suspicion is of a human who says I want to be free and speaks the truth.
Beware of those that require restraint to be abolished in order for their good intentions to flourish.
Sooner, rather than later
Absolutely beautiful!! However, how is the world different from 300 years ago till now? How?
This man is so clean and well groomed looking .
The problem with progressivism is that there is no end to the "progress". (God save us from the well-intentioned.)
Absolute power, corrupts absolutely.
As Professor Arnn affirms at the end of the class (4:55), "we have to be a little bit suspicious of concentrating power." With this statement he has astutely identified the problem. To find out the source of the problem, I recommend this 12-minute video. (The 30% rule will blow you away.): ua-cam.com/video/TfQij4aQq1k/v-deo.html
Government IS people. Government will never be better than the people that comprise it.
This is true education here. Not the garbage being taught in the legacy universities.
Great open dialogue but unless I missed it, they didn't directly discuss the issues or problems that arise from progressivism.
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The days of our government (citizens) having a desire to think and act sensibly are gone. Recent poll 60% of Democrats want Socialism instead of Capitalism.
This could have been much easier said. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Treating people is one aspect, but the true essence of a civil society is Justice and Justice needs to be consistent. Our judicial system isn't broken - it flat-out does not work because of its inconsistency ¿`_
Money is power and if you look and see where all the money is concentrated then you see the power.
Dewey's new religion encompassed three forces; science, education, and technology; big state control of these was to be the panacea for pretty much every societal ailment. The salient contrast about big-state operations is readily observable when one looks at most of the wars of the last two plus-millennia; the less they do the safer we'll be.
Progressing toward what exactly?
For anyone not familiar with progressive political theories, please don't mistake this as what progressives really think about the constitution...
It’s nice to see that these kids aren’t saying this is all coming from entitled, slave-owning, white men and thus null and void.
The true Excellence of a human being is the capability and ability in which not to falter. Every person at that table strives for this, which is, attainable ¿`_
The Serpent in the Garden was the original "Progressive" This an unattributable quote but defnitely worth repeating. Hits the nail on the head.
Why did you capitalize "progressive"?
Progressivism leads to heresy
In the video “The Problem with Progressivism” it or you considers a question. . What is it or your question?
We’re solving the wrong problems.
When I voted for my better government. I agree with this in
on a related note: Woodrow Wilson, not Barry Obama, started us down the path toward fundamental transformation, and the Democrats have been pushing us further away from freedom for more than a century (as the young man said in the video, yoking the sovereignty and the power. Their task is nearly complete.
Woodrow Wilson vowed to be an "unconstitutional governor;" he taught while at Princeton that separation of powers is not a benefit to good governance but an obstacle to overcome, that ordinary Americans should be ruled by administrative agency experts, that these "experts" shouldn't be "unduly constrained" by ordinary notions of democratic rule or constitutional constraints, and that there are no inalienable individual rights. How is that any different from today's Democrats? (Hint: It's not.)
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There are no solutions, only trade-offs. Problems are not solved, only traded for new problems. Every solution comes with 3 more problems of its own.
Mosiah 29: 13-17
At the 2:40 minute mark - all men are created equal under the law! The vast difference in human beings is a totally different issue and that includes mental capabilities. It was once thought that the most intelligent should be the ones that lead this country and that, over time, has gone to the Wayside ¿`_
Kama always happened again to be learnt .
Immediately the blonde woman up front nodding her head in agreement very early on... if you are nodding your head in agreement before he even finishes speaking his statement, are you really critically thinking, or did she already hear an emotional connector that she associates w comfortable and familiar vocabulary that has already "pre-stoked" her proverbial "fire" towards agreement?
The very best form of government is that which God ordained in Israel before the anointing of Saul as king. "There was no king in Israel. And everyone did what was right as he saw it." Of course it only works with a people who have dedicated their lives to God.
You will not take truth in to fictional ways
30th
Is that ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE is stepping on eggs.
America's founders made a great breakthrough in designing a system of self-government based on separation of powers, checks and balances, as opposed to the centuries of rule by oligarchs and monarchs who pretended to be God's chosen rulers on earth. Yet, even a cursory reading of what Christ actually taught shows that neither the kings of Europe throughout the Dark and Middle Ages, nor America's founders truly followed Christ's teachings.
"Do nothing to anyone you would not have done to you. Treat all others as you would be treated for that sums up the Law and the Prophets." ~ Christ
Jefferson plagiarized George Mason heavily when he wrote that "All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain alienable rights chief among these being Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." I visited Jefferson's home, Monticello, when I was a student of architecture. I walked through the rooms in the basement where his slaves labored to create the wealth that produced all the beauty in the rooms above. Geo. Washington kept slaves. Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were slave owners.
Had America's founders truly honored the words in the Declaration of Independence they would never have ratified the Constitution in 1789 that stated slaves would be counted as 3/5's of a human being for the purpose of providing more congressmen to the southern states than their population of free white men would allow. In contrast, England abolished the slave trade in 1807 without the loss of single human life.
The problem is NOT "big government" as the leader of this discussion hints. The problem is that faithful believers in Christ, most of whom were illiterate, were misled for centuries as to what Christ actually taught and did. Even today I find that I have gone into churches from coast to coast and not heard Christ's name even mentioned. I have yet to hear a sermon quoting Christ from the New Testament and teaching how his words can be applied in daily life.
"The kingdom of heaven is at hand." If we take Christ at His word then that was as true 2,000 years ago as it is right now, today. Clearly, therefore, those who call themselves God's representatives on earth have not fulfilled our Creator's intentions for all mankind.
"Let the little children come unto me and do not hinder them for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth, no one who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will ever ever it. I thank you, Father, for hiding these things from the learned and the wise and revealing them to little children."
Could Christ speak with any more clarity, or divine purpose? So, why not study His words and leave the veiled political agenda here in this clip and others to those who would rather perpetuate the darkness of the past than stand in the light, the truth, and the way that has always been within reach of every generation of beautiful children for literally eons?
"Come, oh beloved of my father and inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundations of the world."
That statement tells me Christ was not just focused on the after-life, but on this life in our beautiful, life-sustaining, richly abundant, irreplaceable world.
Glad we have our plutocracy and a government beholden to it, rather than any sort of democracy capable of taking care of its citizens.
You fools.
The problem with progressivism is EVERYTHING.
Go back to the 9th century.
THE AMERICAN DIFFERENCE.... THE YOUNGER AND MORE EXCEPTING GENERATION HAVE DECIDED THEY WANT TO LIVE AND LET LIVE.... ITS MUSIC TO THEIR EARS..
TOO BAD SOME OF THE OLDER FRIGHTENED GENERATION WANT TO KEEP THE SAME OLD SAD SONGS GOING.... ITS MUSIC TO THEIR EARS....
WHEN WILL WE GET ON THE SAME SHEET OF MUSIC.... SO WE CAN BEGIN TO DANCE...
Angels do govern men in government. One angel in particular. Lucifer.this is why I’m an anarchist. No man should be governed by another man. We should all be free.
Anarchist? If anarchy is the absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, who, then, controls the individual who is, as you say, controlled by Lucifer? As Madison said, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
Your argument that Lucifer governs men is exactly why we need a government and why it needs to be limited.
@@KJ-jo6mz no. I said satan governs men in government. Not all men. Authority brings out the natural demons in men. Men should not try and control other men because of the natural instinct to destroy others comes out with authority. Eliminate the authority what evil can men do. Except to themselves. Someone who has no power over me cannot hurt me unless I allow them too. With government I don’t have the option.
I wonder what would happen if one of the students strongly disagreed with him?
And we keep hearing socialism is bad. How many of these kids' grandparents are on Medicare? How many of these kids attended a public school or visited their public socialist library growing up?
Progressivism was a good idea initially but it got corrupted into a slow growing social cancer.