23 Jun 2020 4:01 pm
By ManhattanTransfer:What makes a liberal as opposed to a conservative? It all boils down to one very basic philosophical issue re the age old question of which precedes the other: justice or order? The conservative (the few principled ones there are) asserts that order must first exist so that justice can prevail. The liberal asserts that justice must first exist so that order can prevail. Which of these do you affirm? When considering what the USA Founding Fathers taught, you will learn that (however inconsistent they may have been in theory as opposed to practice), the Founders asserted the liberal position. Justice, they said, must first exist so that order could prevail in their emerging society. They believed in it so strongly that they were willing to die for it. They gleaned this ideal from their studies of Erasmus, from Cicero, and from the Bible which teaches "no justice, no peace" in Isaiah 59:8. https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Isaiah 59:8 There is a certain irony in all this as American conservatives always claim to be good Christians. Yes, they preach a good "Christian" lesson. But they often fall short of the Bible's ideals through their incessant "thoughts and prayers". Yet, it is liberals who do not make public displays of pretended do goody Christianity who are the ones who actually practice this biblical ideal just about every day. No thoughts and prayers but actions which speak louder. That's the basic difference between conservatives and liberals.