Key of History
The foundational principle of Human and Civil Rights remains simply, that we should treat other people in the same way and with the same respect and civility that we ourselves would like to be treated. For if we all did such, there would be no poverty, there would be no thievery, rape or murder, there would be no war, there would be no hatred, racism or other prejudice, there would be no mass global environmental destruction and there would be free quality public education for all
If we truly put this theory into practice using our science and excess funds and abundance wisely to help cure disease, there would likely eventually be no physical or mental disease. As an added benefit, the rest of God’s creation would also be treated with due consideration and reverence. Respect for creation comes natural to people who treat other people fairly and equitably (Albert Schweitzer, for example). And though the truth will make us free, the application of true justice and equality, in spite of over 5,000 years of rather questionable education, continues to remain in the very great and distant “sweet by and by”.
It is an historical error to assume that loving our neighbor as ourselves is a religious Judaeo-Christian or Western concept, as the so-called “golden rule” in various forms, is widespread throughout human civilization in many diverse both connected and non-connected cultures. Similarly, the same base laws of not to murder, steal, commit adultery or bear false witness are foundational to human societies throughout history. This strongly indicates that God has written his law on the hearts of the earth’s peoples, just as the Bible claims.
Thus, our modern educational system in the United States remains not even rudimentary in either form or substance. To not educate our children in the true morality of Human and Civil Rights and to purge the teaching of Jesus from the minds and conscience of our future hope, is to eliminate true education and reason entirely and altogether. And thus without historical doubt, to remove all hope for the record of the United States continuing to be other than a violent chronicle of violation of human rights, war and rumor of war.
Some people have said, among them atheist Bertrand Russel, that a better idea is to treat people as they wish to be treated, rather than as we wish to be treated. But is this really a better idea? Isn’t it true that we first need to treat others like we want to be treated and befriend and get to know them, before we have any idea how or ability to treat them like they want to be treated?
Jesus says, “therefore, as you would have people do to you, do also to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.” Can any scientist, philosopher, educator, politician, religious leader, self-help guru or anyone else offer any better solution than this???
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