What History Teaches Us About Cultural Wars | Stephen Hicks & Rick Walker

[@rickwalkertx]

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[@johnbrown4568]

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[@SavingCommunitiesDS]

"I think the thing to me that's important is the history here, because all of the major religions, even if we just focus on the the Western religions for for a few moments, despite their theology, did not develop anything close to a doctrine of social rights or political rights for the first thousand, 1,500 or so years of their history. You don't see the doctrine of rights as we now understand individuals have a light right to life liberty property Pursuit of Happiness and so forth being articulated until in nacent form in the Renaissance and then more robustly in the enlightenment and that's precisely when we started to become more naturalistic more individual basis and and so forth." This is absolutely wrong. Indeed, the most fundamental right of all that makes all of these other rights possible, is a right of access to the earth. That right was clearly articulated in the Bible, and was the basis for Locke's treatise "On Property," which was really about the limits to property by natural right. Secular humanists generally, and neolibertarians particularly, have ignored this fundamental right, although it was "sacred," even in a secular sense, to classical liberals and libertarians prior to Hayek, Rothbard, Rand and Mises. See "The land shall not be sold forever, for the land is Mine." [Leviticus 25:23] Note that the inscription on the Liberty Bell was from Leviticus 25:10, to "Proclaim liberty throughout the land, and to the inhabitants thereof," which celebrated the semi-centennial year when land was restored to each family. Note also that only those with land were expected to tithe, and only to tithe the produce of their land. This is followed by, ""However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:... "You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit....A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days." [ Deuteronomy 28: 15, 30, 33] Isaiah declared, "What sorrow for you who buy up house after house and field after field, until everyone is evicted and you live alone in the land." [Isaiah 5:8] He went further to declare that, if the Jews honored their law against monopolizing land, "They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. "For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands. "They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the Lord, they and their descendants with them. [Isaiah 65:21-23] Finally, Jesus, who said he was not here to overthrow the teachings of the profits, but to fulfill them, said, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has not where to lay his head. [Matthew 8:20, also Luke 9:58] The classical liberals and early libertarians called for taxes on land value to prevent the naturalization of land. Many of them made references to Scripture.

[@Exiled35]

Agree. Add that liberal economic theory: a fair price (just price) is the market price. The major obstacle was interest rates, which was viewed as immoral usury. And viewing an individual’s worth and as a moral agent goes right to Jesus - even now the idea that our morality comes from intent is difficult to comprehend for those who want a “rules based social order”

[@drstrangelove09]

Very, very strange for an Objectivist to be fielding questions that presuppose that there is god. I think that Stephan should have said at times: I am not a proponent of those views. Also, speaking for myself, the mention of Ben Carson irked me. Carson has some crazy notions. Also 2, I had to remove this video from my history because it's causing youtube to now show me videos "proving atheists are wrong." Oy!