Thursday, July 30, 2009

What Makes America Great Also Works for the Theoevolutionary Church

As Burke, Brownson and Kirk pointed out, the true idea of the state secures the authority of the public and the freedom of the individual, that is, individual freedom without anarchy, and the dialectical union of authority and liberty.

This was, and still is, America's mission and this is what makes the American system great. The political model for America places order and freedom in a healthy balance or tension.

Achieving this balance has always been the central problem in politics. It has not been realized fully in America. We need to reaffirm this tradition within the United States Constitution.

I think the Theoevolutionary Church (TC) can work well within a Republic of liberty under law, with a balance of order and freedom.TC applies a similar tension between evolution and order (Ordered Evolution), between the goals of material evolution and the conservative need to maintain what has been chosen through evolution as Tradition. This does not mean, however, that TC could not work within another system that recognized both evolutionary freedom and Tradition.

Politics is the art of the possible, it has been said, and unchecked freedom and evolution will not bring us our goal of evolving to Godhood. We need the order of Tradition (Involutionary Inward Path) along with the freedom of evolution (Evolutionary Outward Path).

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