Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

COURT HISTORIANSway to aid the career of anyone who rejects Principle Number One,unless you are trying to work some sort of deal.) Ethics withoutpermanent norms! Here is an ethical ideal dear to the hearts ofpragmatists — and also to thieves, traitors, and other skilledprofessionals in search of new victims. Osgood writes:Idealists must recognize as a basic condition for therealization of the liberal and humane values the creationof a brotherhood of mankind in which all men, regardlessof physiological, social, religious, or politicaldistinctions, will have equal partnership and in whichhuman conflicts will be settled by reason, morality, andlaw rather than by physical power, coercion, or violence.And idealists must seek, as an integral part of thisbrotherhood, a progressive command over nature, to theend that every individual may share the material benefitsessential to a full and happy existence on earth" (pp. 6-7).In short, dig down deep into your wallet, American taxpayer: you oweit to the world. And by the way, you also owe your country to theworld:The pursuit of a universal goal may demand the practiceof that extreme form of idealism, national altruism,according to which men dedicate themselves to thewelfare of other nations and peoples without regard fortheir own nation's welfare. But the ultimate form ofidealism is national self-sacrifice, which demands thedeliberate surrender of one's own nation's self-interest forthe sake of other nations and peoples or for the sake ofsome moral principle or universal goal. Every idealdemands that nations place some restraints upon egoismand renounce the more extreme forms of self-interest, butthe ideal of self-sacrifice must countenance even thesurrender of national survival itself (p. 7).Feed this one-world drivel to a generation of college students, and youhave sown the seeds of surrender within the next generation'seducated elite. You have also screened the next generation of collegeteachers.The universal goal is "the brotherhood of man." (You remember thehttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/5.htm (12 of 15) [5/26/2000 1:48:14 PM]