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How Theology Dictates Political Systems: An
Extract from
the
Deductive Unification of Anthropocentric Knowledge
by Dallas F. Bell, Jr.
Abstract:
The finite human intellect struggles with common cosmic questions of
who,
why, where, when, and how. This pursuit need not be chaotic. Knowledge
can be deductively and anthropocentrically unified. The framework
for a
simple
model begins with binary singularities of theology, extending along
two
distinct
epistemological vectors and enclosed in human and sociological parametrics,
resulting in opposing eschatological magnitudes. One valuable
extract
provides
the answer of many honest and intelligent individuals concerning how
their
theology dictates correlating political systems. From that endeavor
emerges
systematic political science. Its fundamentals are reinforced by the
collation
of other systematic sciences. Conversely, they are also
symbiotically
enhanced.
Many more solutions can be found by this geometric triangulation of
existing
knowledge, all of which will inductively point back to the core of
the
quantum
mind within every soul— the reality of God almighty.
Suspended in
infinity, our particle universe expands. We understand the relationship
of those particles, space, and movement by the concept of time. Because
each succession of moments is unique, time is linear. Laws of
thermodynamics
stipulate this condition to be an entropic dimension of eternity.
Quantum
realities soon will cease to be the mechanism by which mortals
display
individual
choices of good and evil.
What is good? What is evil? Do they exist beyond man’s
consciousness?
What
is their relevance? All people at some point in life ponder these
cosmic
questions.
Many people will find this time of questioning to be a chaotic experience.
Academia, for the necessary purpose of specialization, has thus far
separated
schools of study.
Lost in this honest quest for knowledge is the connectiveness of
all truth.
Only
an omniscient God could understand all things perfectly. Finite
beings
can,
however, anthropocentrically unify by deduction what we are capable
of
perceiving.
The opening statement of this article reflects, both directly and
indirectly,
the collation of many sciences. Having begun with physics, it
systematically
concludes with theological implications, thereby inductively
demonstrating
the origin of all ideas—God. Even the physics observations
themselves contain
theological elements. Therefore, a credible model for unification
must begin with the queen of science—theology.
The systematic study of deity commences with two possibilities.
This binary
notion
of God either is or is not one of perfection who created for beauty
and
practicality.
If it is the former, the divine attributes of omnipresence, omniscience,
immutability, inerrancy, infinity, and eternity are applicable to His
behavior
of love and justice. This agape love includes benevolence
toward all and
mercy
for toward those who violate divine law. Justice, for the necessary
administration
of creation, rectitudinally punishes all who intentionally or unintentionally
break divine law. It is also punitive because God’s holiness
and
goodness
was violated.
The equation of merciful love and punitive justice are balanced by
willed
grace.
Humans could never relate to such perfect righteousness, or good,
because
of their unholy behavior. Grace bridges this relational gap. Based
on
God’s
conditions for forgiveness, it would be afforded to everyone equally.
On
the
other hand, the alternative is an imperfect god who is neither
immutable nor
inerrant
and who created inefficiently. The attributes could range from omniscience
and acknowledge natural law violations, dominated by willed rectitudinal
justice over merciful love, or willed benevolent love over punitive
justice,
to being a
mechanical or detached force void of either willed justice or love
who
created out of self, meaning that all is part of god, thus
eliminating both
the
free will of man to violate laws and a need for love or justice. One
must
relate
to such graceless gods by one’s attempts to do good and become
godlike.
Good
would be defined as legalistic adherence to divine law, or moderately
acknowledging
natural law, or relative to individual interpretation, respectively.
Either
the perfect God is consciously chosen or the unbalanced god is
accepted
by
default.
Through this singularity distinct vectors of epistemology
systematically
project.
Information is taken in by the senses both consciously and subconsciously
and processed with past input for future use in one of two
directions.
The
first way emanates from a perfect God with a balanced theology.
Something
cannot be both true and untrue simultaneously. This fact proves the
existence
of absolute truth, and finite minds can know it outright by the mean
of our
ability
and extremes of potential infinity that is knowable only to God. The
divide
between all truth and the limited amount of truth that we can
comprehend
is
joined by faith in the source of ultimate truth, the attributes of a
chosen deity
of
absolutes. Seeking to identify truth would be based on the same
graceful
balance
of love and justice. Good is defined by submission to those
findings.
This self-denying
attribute is rational.
The second vector is constructed from an unbalanced god of
justice, love, or
force.
Faith in those deity’s characteristics is also necessary to
accommodate
learning.
Belief in a god of justice requires robotic identification and
obedience
of
natural law without regard to merciful love. A believer in a god of
love
acknowledges
natural laws short of the concept of punitive justice. Those who
have
a god of force may accept or reject natural law as it relates to
their circumstances.
Neither of these views, however, provides a balance for defining
good;
therefore,
they must have an irrational, self-serving approach to absolutes.
Realities
contrary to their desires require alteration or denial. The result
is
cognitive
dissonance and perpetual conflict with rationality.
These two vectors are confined by human parametrics, the need
levels that
are
common to all mankind. In ascending order, they are survival,
economic
security,
love and affection, status and self-esteem, and self-actualization.
Once
a
lower need level is perceived to have been achieved, advancement is
made
toward
the next need level. Individual perceptions reflect physiology—which
includes
psychology and is gender specific—experiences, environment
potential,
and category of intelligence (i.e. either gifted with inventive
ability and
twice
the problem-solving skills as the average intellect, who can’t
invent but
can use inventions
to manipulate their surroundings to achieve needs, or the
lower
level, who have only half their ability and require constant
supervision to
manipulate
the environment).
How needs are met is determined most by whether one is rational or
irrational.
Individuals who are rational survive by trusting and serving a God
of
love
and justice who provides fairly. Economic security is an opportunity
to
help
others achieve their needs. Love and affection are achieved by
loving and
serving
others. Status and self-esteem are evidenced by a greater maturity
in an
obedient
personal relationship with God. Self-actualization is a state of joy
and
peace
from a balanced understanding of God’s perfect grace.
Self-actualization
contentment
can be attained during survival-level circumstances.
Individuals who are irrational, on the other hand, meet survival
needs with
violence.
Their attempt at economic security is characterized by greed. They
express
love and affection through lust. Status and self-esteem is achieved
by
gaining
power over others. Self-actualization produces the highest focus on
defying
realities and ultimately yields self-destruction and death. Man’s
free
will
to chose good or evil at any time does not permit either the rational
person
or
the irrational person always to reflect their respective cores
perfectly. This
failure
of perfect rationality is the source of innocent human suffering.
Human
parametrics are enclosed in societal parametrics. To meet human
needs,
all people interact within the ascending institutions of family,
church,
business,
and government. Rational individuals view the family as divine marriage
between one woman and one man for life to procreate and to share
love.
Church
is the nonhiearchial worship of God and divine collection of efforts
to
meet
the needs of the community. Business is the efficient exchange of
labor
expertise.
The divine purpose of government is to protect the other three
institutions
from individuals who are irrational. To demonstrate and ensure that
all
people are equal before God is democratic. A republic conforms
irrational
tendencies
to the rule of natural law and representationally acknowledges that
decisions
of daily governance necessitate the election of full-time officials
to
orchestrate
the institution efficiently. Irrational individuals approach the
concept
of family from a purely procreative or sexual perspective. For them
church
is
hierarchial or even nonexistent. Business is an opportunity to
control others
or
is nonexistent. Government ranges from authoritarian forms to
anarchy.
Human and societal parametrics develop eschatological magnitudes.
Rational
individuals recognize the entropic nature of the universe and realize
that
God
must lovingly intercede to deliver the just from eventual destruction
by the
unjust.
Life beyond death includes a balance of heaven, for those who are
forgiven, and the
privilege to worship God and increase exponentially in grace
and
joy forever, and hell for those who are unforgiven because they
rejected
grace
and are punitively doomed to increase exponentially in pain and
hopelessness
for rectitudinal eternity. The irrational individuals who have a god
of justice
expect that destruction will soon come to everyone who violates
natural law
and
that such people will be cast forever into hell. But they think only
they
have
managed to do good and will be in heaven forever. Those who have a
god
of
love assume that there is no hell and that everyone will be delivered
eventually
to heaven. A detached god or force cannot or will not help, so
utopia on
earth
will result eventually in man’s becoming enlightened and
unrestrained by
natural
law. The cognitive dissonance that irrational individuals choose in
disregarding
rational eschatology is a merciful ability that prevents their
awareness
of
the eternal future that awaits them in hell. Acknowledging this just
reality
would
quickly deplete neurotransmitters from the stress of rejecting grace
and
lead to psychotic collapse.
Based upon this brief sketch of the model, all sciences can make
their reinforcing
contribution at the appropriate position. In turn, they, too, will
be
enhanced
symbiotically. One such area of study is obviously political
science.
Specific
theology can be traced systematically by causation to the corresponding social
parametric of government. Although individuals in society operate at
ascending
and descending need levels, the societal average will usually become
the
dominate societal level. Intelligence agencies fail to analyze and
predict the
behavior
of other nation-states, and benevolent international organizations
continue
to offer rational support to irrational societies, thereby
squandering valuable
resources by not understanding the fact that theology clearly
dictates
political
systems.
Untruth exists only in finite minds, so truth adhered to by the
rational members
will empower them to exert more influence per person and per
institution
than
the irrational individuals. No person or society will be perfectly
rational,
therefore,
no computer program or faultless prediction process will be attainable.
Time frames for societal levels are affected by internal and
external stimuli
from crises such as natural disasters and war, which are inevitable,
and contingencies
can be generally calculated. Unique natural resources, history of
rationality
and irrationality, and mean of intelligence levels weigh heavily on
potential
for achievement.
Despite differing components, all societies’ domestic and
external policies
begin
at the survival level. Depending on the ratio of rational to
irrational individuals
in society as identified by ideologically compatible political party
affiliations, one of three chosen paths is predetermined to occur. The first path is
based
on the assumption that the society is dominated by rational
individuals.
Families
form for love and procreation. Churches are established for the
collective
worship of God and to help the community meet it’s individual
needs. Both
the
family and the church teach sciences with a rational theological
emphasis.
Because
of free enterprise, business is built to produce basic products in an
equitable
exchange of labor. Emulating God’s balance of love and
justice, the
society
will be governed by a democratic representative republic that
guarantees
divine
human rights including the right to life, self-defense, speak and
worship
freely,
and private ownership of property. Understanding the inevitability
of
irrational
influences, the society will establish a system of checks and
balances
by
separating government into three areas of responsibility. The
executive
branch,
whose chief is elected by a majority of voters, operates the
government
agencies.
The elected legislature affirms the election of the chief executive
and
makes the law. The judiciary is elected or appointed by the chief
executive
and
confirmed by the legislature to interpret those laws and enforce them
using
an
appellate process. The rational premise for human administered
justice is
one
must be assumed innocent until proven guilty.
As a result of the efficiency of compliance to natural law, the
economic
security level of
society will soon be reached. The institutions of family,
church,
and business will increase their ability to help others. Hospitals
will be
built,
and education will be formalized. The government will improve the
infrastructure.
During the next level of love and affection, life expectancy rates
are the
highest.
Commerce and science will greatly advance in this renaissance. The
rational
church’s mission to expand into irrational societies and
convert their
irrational
theology can grow. This is the apex for rationality.
To this point, many individuals behaved rationally because of the
immediate
negative
consequences of violating natural law and the cultural examples of
success
by rational individuals in obeying those laws. They will, however,
become
increasingly allied with the openly irrational individuals. For
instance,
they
will allow government to exceed its divine authority to protect and
administer
justice and punishment by adding to it the church’s divine
authority for
collective
benevolence. Charity is based on free will, but taxation forces producers
to give to nonproducers as the government dictates. Irrational
individuals
immigrate from their irrational societies for the handouts, thereby
forming
a
voting block for the irrational party. Capital punishment is eased.
Rational
laws
are neutralized and irrational laws added by a willing judiciary that
is dominated by
irrational individuals who are drawn to the profession by the power
it
gives
over others. Supported by the media, which are also largely made up
of
power
seekers, the societal path is altered downward toward irrationality.
This paradigm shift is evidenced in art, sports, and humor, which
change
from
reflecting joy and peace to focusing on inharmoniously irrational
characteristics
of lust and power. The government-controlled educational system
de-emphasizes
grammatical rules necessary for a common language. The
government
will proscribe the teaching of rational theology. The rational purpose
for war (i.e., to stop the violation of natural laws and restore
order) will no
longer
be supported. The inefficiency of the socialist government will drop
it to
the
level of status and self-esteem.
An irrational need for power will dominate societal institutions.
The power
conflicts
between men and women and between young and old will split the
family
unit. Churches will become hierarchical to control members. Workers
and
employers will struggle for dominance, thereby producing inflation
and uncompetitive
products. The federal government will compete with local governments
for supreme authority. Taxes will be used to sponsor government art.
Productive
citizens will resist increasing confiscation of revenues to support
the
growing bureaucracies. All taxpayers will be assumed to be guilty
until
proven innocent.
Incentives for worker productivity will decrease, thereby
depleting
the economy of wealth from the exchange of labor and its reinvestment.
Government education will prevent the teaching of natural laws or
historical
proof of the superiority of rational theology.
Politicians will exploit the conflicting groups for political
gain. They will
promise
to dismantle the remaining natural laws, especially divine human
freedoms,
thereby creating even more irrational political parties. Given to
bribery,
domestic
and foreign interest groups will form to gain favor with the corrupt
officials.
Wars will be waged to expand power over people and regions. Illiteracy
and crime will increase. Many otherwise rational individuals will
behave
irrationally
culturally, intentionally conforming to the zeitgeist or from
their
ignorance
of a completely rational theology.
The last level, self-actualization, is characterized by the murder
of the weak,
innocent,
and rational minority unless they resist or flee. Illiteracy and
disease
increase,
and life expectancy is lowered. The soaring divorce rate will create
numerous
orphans who choose to become psychopathic because they have
never
witnessed or been taught true love. Church is seen as irrelevant.
Businesses
are destabilized by the greed of both employers and workers.
Inflation is
rampant,
and the black-market will supply consumer demands and fuel criminal
enterprises. The
government will have filled the void for divine authority,
changing
human rights to privileges that officials may permit or deny as suits
them.
Such a society is the most belligerent but it does not have an
economy
or
the selfless soldiers to sustain a prolonged conflict.
The second path is dominated by legalistic compliance to natural
law. The
survival
level is marked by violence. Families are formed for procreation.
Churches
are hierarchical. Business supplies basic needs as the government
permits.
The government is based on an unloving god of justice and is
centralized
and authoritarian. Only the elite have divine freedoms or are
educated, and
only
they are allowed to produce art. They will increase in life
expectancy as
their
subjects decrease. Illiterate citizens are assumed to be guilty
until proven
innocent,
and capital punishment is used not only rectitudinally and rationally
against
the guilty but also irrationally to prevent rational opposition.
Government
will control the media to change historical truth to conform to its
irrational
theology.
Enough natural law is enforced to permit partial achievement of
economic
security.
Families will begin to deteriorate from a lack of love. The church
will
become
less relevant. Business lacks productive workers or owners whose
incentives
are derived only from the freedom to meet one’s own needs.
Inflation and the
black-market dominate the economy. The government continues
to seize all privately created wealth.
This condition was the highest level of rationality. Next, in
love and affection,
the institutions of family, church, business, and government are
dominated
by
lust. Status and self-esteem are characterized by the acquisition of
power
over
others, as was seen in the first path. It ends with the murderous
level of self-actualization.
The third and final path is an anarchical society that is nearly
devoid of the
acknowledgment
of natural law. The authority for its laws lies not with the
divine
but with the self. This fact, coupled with the absence of the
selflessness
necessary
to bind the individual members of a society, prevent formation of
complex
institutions. Such a society will be tribal, clannish, and gang-like
and
doomed
never to rise above a collective survival level. Individuals are
violent,
acting
out of fear, hate, vengeance, and envy and having the lowest possible
life
expectancy. Greed, lust, power, and murder express individual
economic
security,
love and affection, status and self-esteem, and self-actualization,
respectively.
Without the existence of the restraining influence of some rational
individuals
and institutions, as are present in the other paths, self-destructive
behavior
is extreme. Such a diseased, illiterate, and zoomorphic society is
dominated and
characterized by human addictions, cannibalism, nudity, assign
human
attributes to animals, tattooing, use of mind-altering drugs, trance-inducing
chants, nonrhythmic music, ritual dance, theft by gambling,
astrology,
witchcraft,
sorcery, fortune telling, totem idolatry, human sacrifice, and evil
spirit
possession by the one whom they serve.
All three paths began from either a reformation to rational
theology, a revolution
to rationally escape irrational domination, or an irrational
revolution to
gain
power over another irrational system. As is evident in the
successful treatment
of individual addictions, or irrationality, the first step toward
healing, or
rationality,
is the admission of the reality of God and His loving and just power
over
one’s life. The same fact is true for societies. The more
rational the
theology
at the formation of a society, the more potential the citizens have
to
meet
their needs efficiently.
These observations concerning political systems can be verified by
data
(especially
historical data) that are attached to differing aspects of the
abstract
of
unification herein presented. Historical assertions can also be
tested for accuracy.
For example, Jesus lived 2,000 years ago and claimed to be God. By
all
accounts,
we know that He was perfectly selfless and ultimately died willingly
for
the atonement of others, thereby demonstrating divine grace. He
sought
only to glorify
the perfectly balanced sovereign God, the Father, of love and
justice,
exposing false gods as satanic. Unlike all the rest of mankind, not
once
did
He deviate from a rational course of human needs. He must then have
been
theanthropos,
just as the inerrant Bible recorded that He professed Himself to be.
Yet this rational and empirical proof still requires faith. If
anyone chooses
this
faith and repents, Jesus said that he would by grace reside in heaven
with
Him
forever. That one such decision is evidenced by his selfless service
to
others
when and how the Holy Spirit prompts. By any standard this condition
and
result is rational and perfect good and suggests the following
syllogistic
conclusion
that any intellect can understand: because we must serve a deity,
and
it is appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgement,
why not
choose
to serve the true God before time ends? Additional realities can be
made
visible from further geometric triangulation of existing knowledge,
all of
which
will point inductively to the core of the quantum mind within every
soul—the
reality of God almighty.
References
King James Version Bible
Bell,
Dallas F., Jr., Appalachian Exile, (2000), pp. 1-245.
Bell,
Dallas F., Jr., Metamorphoses Principles, (1999), pp. 1-195.
Bell,
Dallas F., Jr., Deductive Unification, (1997), pp. 1-198.
All materials Copyrighted 2002-4 (c) Dallas F. Bell Jr.
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