Kirjahaku

Natural rights provide all societies moral foundation. They bind a people together because they are grounded in justice. Wherever justice is lacking, society's members become unbound-there is division. They no longer recognize a common set of rights, and therefore are no longer a people. Politicians talk endlessly today about our rights. Talk focusing on us. They tell us what we deserve and need, with the promise they'll deliver. Their message is sometimes echoed and amplified by the media and supported by academics. Is what they tell us true? How do we know? What rights do we really have? What is their basis? The answers matter. When society's moral foundation dissolves, it cannot be successful. It dies. America's Founders believed natural rights were important enough to sacrifice their lives for, when they were taken away and all other means of peaceful reconciliation had been exhausted. Generations since have done the same. What did they know? We are not born with knowledge of our rights. Learning is required for a people to become good and noble, to create the kind of knowledge that cannot be shaken by reason-wisdom. Wisdom requires internalizing what is right. Simply knowing our rights is insufficient. We must also understand why we have them and their purpose. It is in this spirit that A Handbook of Natural Rights explores these questions. The answers exist, and lead to you fulfilling your purpose.

Only two approaches for structuring society exist. We hear the first from our politicians today when they promise to end all kinds of injustice by using governance to create rights. Fulfilling their promises requires top down command and control methods for society, the economy, our actions, etc. Society becomes ordered through law; man controlling his own destiny. All the isms use these means to achieve their stated ends. These include ideologies such as; communism, fascism, humanism, liberalism, Marxism, progressivism, rationalism, secularism, and socialism-just to name a few.But despite all the hype, effort, and support for the first approach, it always fails. There is, however, a second approach which has worked. America's Founders used this one to lay our society's foundations. How do these approaches differ? How does each approach influence society? How did the principles underlying this second approach set the stage for the Industrial Revolution and today's prosperity?The answers matter, especially when today's political climate asks us to make decisions profoundly effecting society. Do we have the information we need to make a wise choice? How do we know? Which choice is truly in our best interest?The Light and the Rod explores these questions and the implications for each approach. The first volume lays out the significant differences between the two approaches. The second examines two corruptions of the second approach. Both volumes discuss the impacts on such basic notions as rights, justice, virtue, and morality. Society's success, and your welfare, depend upon our choice.

Only two approaches for structuring society exist. We hear the first from our politicians today when they promise to end all kinds of injustice by using governance to create rights. Fulfilling their promises requires top down command and control methods for society, the economy, our actions, etc. Society becomes ordered through law; man controlling his own destiny. All the isms use these means to achieve their stated ends. These include ideologies such as; communism, fascism, humanism, liberalism, Marxism, progressivism, rationalism, secularism, and socialism-just to name a few.But despite all the hype, effort, and support for the first approach, it always fails. There is, however, a second approach which has worked. America's Founders used this one to lay our society's foundations. How do these approaches differ? How does each approach influence society? How did the principles underlying this second approach set the stage for the Industrial Revolution and today's prosperity?The answers matter, especially when today's political climate asks us to make decisions profoundly effecting society. Do we have the information we need to make a wise choice? How do we know? Which choice is truly in our best interest?The Light and the Rod explores these questions and the implications for each approach. The first volume lays out the significant differences between the two approaches. The second examines two corruptions of the second approach. Both volumes discuss the impacts on such basic notions as rights, justice, virtue, and morality. Society's success, and your welfare, depend upon our choice.

Our country has changed. Our founding principles are being over-written with a post-modern perspective. A world view where truth is no longer objective, but subjective. Man defining his own truth. This view is taught to our children. We hear it from our politicians in both parties. It is espoused and supported by our media and academics. The attempts to erase history by removing statues, culminating with the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, are a result of that shift. Today's interfaith movement and events grow out of this new world order, but its source is far from new. Its root lies with the same pagan views as the Greek philosophers. We all share the same nature, and so are called to love and care for each other. Can we do this today without compromising our principles? Several interfaith events were held in Richmond. While their purpose was developing an understanding of Islam, in some respects the topic is irrelavent. How should Christians respond to this change? How do we remain in society whithout losing our faith?