Leo Strauss says Classical Liberalism is the religion of American imperialism, but where is its scripture and what are its principles?
Before Conservatism, the political parties were divided between Whig and Tory. The Tories were represented by the owners of land, and the Whigs came to represent the new rich of the Industrial Revolution in favour of free trade to better sell their wares in the British Empire.
The new rich got their way when the Corn Laws were repealed which allowed them cheap imported corn for the urban proletariat.
Classical Liberalism is really Conservatism, and Conservatism was created as a defence against the ideas of the French Revolution. What the French Revolutionaries were rebelling against was the Catholic clergy. It can be deduced therefore that Conservatism was really Theocracy Lite, "lite" because it was a synthesis of the old hierarchical and patriarchal ideas of the Bible and the revolutionary idea of egalitarianism.
It is probably time to consider whether we should just have the real thing and stop pretending we know better than scripture when we are only in the mess we're in because we have ignored what are said to be God's commandments. At least with established religions their scripture does not change while what we think is our political ideology is altered with as much frequency as the leader of a political party changes his mind about something or, sometimes more frequently.
God's laws were laid down long ago and, being omniscient and morally perfect, if He exists, He does not make mistakes. A theocracy would at least stop the laws from changing so frequently because our law-makers keep making mistakes and changing their minds.
When once the Church of England was considered to be the Tory Party at area, the Tory Party is now on record of having a Prime Minister that legalised gay marriage.
We need the rules to be clear and stay the same just as we need the day to be 24 hours long and the week to be 7 days long.
The moral chaos we now have is directly related to the frequency of how often our political leaders change their minds. Women, you may have noticed, change their minds more often than men, many Western world leaders are now clueless childless women, and many Western leaders are men afraid of women.
No good will come of this.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/59/Leo_Strauss_Neoconservative
Before Conservatism, the political parties were divided between Whig and Tory. The Tories were represented by the owners of land, and the Whigs came to represent the new rich of the Industrial Revolution in favour of free trade to better sell their wares in the British Empire.
The new rich got their way when the Corn Laws were repealed which allowed them cheap imported corn for the urban proletariat.
Classical Liberalism is really Conservatism, and Conservatism was created as a defence against the ideas of the French Revolution. What the French Revolutionaries were rebelling against was the Catholic clergy. It can be deduced therefore that Conservatism was really Theocracy Lite, "lite" because it was a synthesis of the old hierarchical and patriarchal ideas of the Bible and the revolutionary idea of egalitarianism.
It is probably time to consider whether we should just have the real thing and stop pretending we know better than scripture when we are only in the mess we're in because we have ignored what are said to be God's commandments. At least with established religions their scripture does not change while what we think is our political ideology is altered with as much frequency as the leader of a political party changes his mind about something or, sometimes more frequently.
God's laws were laid down long ago and, being omniscient and morally perfect, if He exists, He does not make mistakes. A theocracy would at least stop the laws from changing so frequently because our law-makers keep making mistakes and changing their minds.
When once the Church of England was considered to be the Tory Party at area, the Tory Party is now on record of having a Prime Minister that legalised gay marriage.
We need the rules to be clear and stay the same just as we need the day to be 24 hours long and the week to be 7 days long.
The moral chaos we now have is directly related to the frequency of how often our political leaders change their minds. Women, you may have noticed, change their minds more often than men, many Western world leaders are now clueless childless women, and many Western leaders are men afraid of women.
No good will come of this.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/59/Leo_Strauss_Neoconservative
