This text calls upon all monotheists (Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus etc.) who understand that there’s one almighty, personal Supreme God and that this God has an opinion about politics that needs to be honored. Peace, happiness and tolerance will never come about by giving in to any form of atheistic philosophy. It will only come about by 1) recognizing that logically there can only be one Supreme God and by 2) submitting to His will. Monotheists should, even if they do not agree on exactly who that Supreme God is, precisely what His nature is and what exactly His desires and wants regarding politics are, find common ground and treat each other respectfully and work cooperatively to fight the greatest enemies of civilized humanity–irreligiosity, materialism, relativism and secularism. These demonic forces will love to see our attention diverted toward fighting amongst ourselves while they take over the world by establishing their godless governments. The only remedy against this is to work together to establish Gods all-good political agenda. Or, in other words, to establish a society based on theocratic principles. God is all-loving and thus His political agenda and His desires for government for us humans must, contrary to fallible human made political ideologies, be perfect and bring about the greatest good for all. Per definition, to submit to the political agenda given by an all-loving God–to establish a theocratic society–cannot have negative consequences, but will necessarily have only good consequences if followed correctly.
Unfortunately some monotheists, influenced by materialistic propaganda, have fallen into the trap of thinking that separating religion and politics is a good idea. These monotheist needs to awaken to the fact that…
1. Since God is all-loving He always desires the absence of all evil and suffering in all areas of our human lives.
2. Some political ideas brings evil and suffering into our human lives.
3. Therefore God desires the absence of such political ideas.
and…
1. Since God is all-loving He only desires what is good for us in all areas of our human lives.
2. Politics is an unavoidable area of our human lives.
3. Therefore God desires only what is good for us in the political area of our human lives.
God naturally dislikes any form of government which brings humanity misery. God does, therefore, not want any government which hinders the development of the inborn spiritual nature of all human beings. On the contrary, God wants politics and government surcharged with goodness in the form a absolute moral values and virtues like justice, charity, self-mastery, truthfulness, mercy etc. He also wants the physical, mental and spiritual protection of the citizens against the demonic forces that promotes illusion in the form of atheism, materialism, relativism and secularism and immorality in the form os selfishness, hate, anger, greed, lust etc.
Theocracy is therefore, obviously, the best possible form of government and to argue against theocracy is to go against God’s will.
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anarko // 31/03/2009 at 20:15 |
Very good article and I fully agree with you as an orthodox christian.
My own vision in the modern world is to establish small, autonomous village-communities where we can practice a theistic belief and live according so theistic principles and laws. I therefore call my political outlook: “anarcho-traditionalism” – in swedish “anarkotraditionalism”.
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Ajit // 01/04/2009 at 14:31 |
Thank you very much. It is very encouraging to get this feed back from you as a Christian. Srila Prabhupada, the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, had similar ideas. His vision was a state in which different religions could practice their own path and be judged by their own laws. The role of the state would, among other things, be to control that all people actually followed their own path and didn’t deviate. He also favored self-sufficient farm communities. I took a look at your blog and we seem to agree on many things. Please take a look at my other blog http://vaisnavatraditionalist,wordpress.com and also visit this website which is run by some friends of mine: http://www.integraltradition.com
I think you will find them interesting.
anarko // 01/04/2009 at 17:02 |
Srila Prabhupadas vision is exactly my own. At the end of the 19th century Tsar Alexander II gave freedom and land to large peasant communities in Russia. These peasant communities were politically autonomous though formally under the Tsar. But they had their own policeforce, their own local government of elders etc. They lived fully according to the orthodox christian cyclical calendar with feasts and fasts and no one laboured only to himself but for the whole commune. You can read more about them here:
http://www.rosenoire.org/articles/Peasant_Commune.php
Thank you for a very interesting blog. Keep up the good work.
PAX
anarko // 01/04/2009 at 19:55 |
Just one thing differs, that I forgot to mention – I dont want the state to force people to stay in one community or another. I don´t think that this is necessary.
Ajit // 03/04/2009 at 05:39 |
Thanks, Srila Prabhupada also didn’t want to force people to stay in a community. But if a person chooses a specific religious community he also has to accept the laws of that community and the state must make sure that he then follows those rules – as long as he is a member. Otherwise people can commit crimes and then choose another community and avoid punishment.
I will take a closer look at the link later.