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VALID AND INVALID ETHICS (Continued) 3. The operations of the Catholic Church and its various Christian offshoots was based on an ethic. The values to be maximized were the love of God (the Christian conception of course) and the reward of a heavenly afterlife. The belief system was that the Church was infallible and that unbelievers deserved to burn in hell. This belief system spawned both the 200-year Crusades and the 400-year Inquisition. These resulted in the torture and slaying of millions of Jews, Muslims, and Christians, the theft of the victims’ assets, the destruction of their culture, and a hatred of Christianity that continues to this day in the hearts of hundreds of millions of people. Instead of increasing the love of (the Christian) God the Christian ethic resulted in the exact opposite of what its proponents had hoped for. 4. The founders of the United States adopted an ethic. The value they chose to maximize was freedom for everyone (but blacks and women). The belief system to which they subscribed was that of republican democracy by means of majority rule. The
result is that each year but two we have had less freedom than the
year before.[1]
Our government becomes more and more tyrannical, taxes us more and
more heavily, and increasingly restricts our freedoms for the
benefit of special interests. Meanwhile we fought a devastating
civil war to maintain our power over the southern states who wanted
to withdraw from the Union. They found they were not free to
do so. The ethic was not valid.
[1] In 1865 the slaves were freed and in 1920 women were permitted to vote.
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