1. I like this essay very much. It applies a deep Christian sensibility.
2. But I also worry that it doesn't address a key point.
3. This essay states a wonderful truth: "The answer is Jesus Christ,...through Christ ... anybody can be propelled into greatness."
4. So, being great souls, people who are viewed as insignificant in this world will end up ruling in Heaven with Christ and the Apostles. (Revelation 2:26)
5. Yet, the question remains: Who will rule in the nations of this world? Who will make the rules (laws) and who will enforce them? Shall it be by pure majority will of the citizens? Or shall elites (financial, religious, academic, athletic) have an outsized say in how things go?
6. Through most of the history of Western Civilization, whenever some form of Christianity was the official state religion, some sort of aristocracy (bloodline, financial, or military) was generally the form of rule, and I think it is fair to say that most or much of the time these aristocrats did not rule for the sake of the common good or the common man, but for the sake of the aristocrats. The common man suffered a staggering and sickening amount of cruelty, neglect, and abuse at the hands of these earthly lords.
7. Lord Actor's famous line to Bishop Creighton: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...."
1. I like this essay very much. It applies a deep Christian sensibility.
2. But I also worry that it doesn't address a key point.
3. This essay states a wonderful truth: "The answer is Jesus Christ,...through Christ ... anybody can be propelled into greatness."
4. So, being great souls, people who are viewed as insignificant in this world will end up ruling in Heaven with Christ and the Apostles. (Revelation 2:26)
5. Yet, the question remains: Who will rule in the nations of this world? Who will make the rules (laws) and who will enforce them? Shall it be by pure majority will of the citizens? Or shall elites (financial, religious, academic, athletic) have an outsized say in how things go?
6. Through most of the history of Western Civilization, whenever some form of Christianity was the official state religion, some sort of aristocracy (bloodline, financial, or military) was generally the form of rule, and I think it is fair to say that most or much of the time these aristocrats did not rule for the sake of the common good or the common man, but for the sake of the aristocrats. The common man suffered a staggering and sickening amount of cruelty, neglect, and abuse at the hands of these earthly lords.
7. Lord Actor's famous line to Bishop Creighton: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...."