Salim Syed said:
Peace upon you,
In todays world where there is so much crimes, war and violence etc.. it is obvious that whatever govermental structures are in place world wide are not working. If a government was implemented based on Christian values, what laws would be changed or added to address today's social and economical problems ?
Is there a fundamental set of laws like in the old testament that could be applied in today's world ? if so what would be those laws ?
Hello Salim Syed,
The question you ask is interesting, and the replies you received even more so. You see, the United States Constitiution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence are all based on Christian values. That is to say that the men who originated these documents were using Christian fundemental values to help design these documents which make up the foundation of the United States governmental system.
Now the documents have not changed one bit. Not one word has been added, removed, or modernized (with the exception of ammendments later, as it was determined they were needed for liberty, posterity and equality for all citizens). What has changed is the people who interpret these documents. Recently the most specific example is the judicial branch of the US Federal Republic, which decreed that the Constitution is a "living" Constitution, subject to change with the ebb and flow of today's society. Yet if you read carefully the Constitution you will find that the forefathers of this country saw this very pitfal, and put specific wording in the Constitution to deride this very kind of "relative" thinking. But that part of the Constitution is being conveniently ignored by judicial bodies who have begun to legislate law from the bench rather than interpret it, and judge based upon it.
Every school child in the US (at least up until 1970) understood these words by heart:
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America:
[size=+1]W[/size]hen, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
[size=+1]W[/size]e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states...h
ttp://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm
THE PREAMBLE to the Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide
for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and
establish this Constitution for the United States of America...(followed by Articles 1 through 7)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/browse.html
The Bill of Rights Prologue:
The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent miconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added, and as extending the ground of publice confidence in the Government will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution...[size=-1]
The Bill of Rights[/size]
I think you will find no finer a beginning for a form of just government "humanly possible", as the origins of the Republic of the United States of America. It is the most equalizing form of human government on Earth.
Unfortunately it is being undermined by a few power hungry godless people who wish to see themselves as the godhead of the nation instead of the Almighty.
If it continues...well we all know what happened to mighty "Pax Roma"...unless of course the citizens have enough of the antics of idiots in government postitions, and decide to invoke their right to disolve the existing government and start again...
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