Ten Commandments Reflections

  Reintegration of Paradise by Darwin Leon THE POLITICAL PATH TO SWEETNESS AND LIGHT BY DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS In Contrast to the Narrow Economic Motive  It was as if Barrack Obama, when he became the leading candidate for the presidency, served neocons as their repressed Shadow. It was not really his fault that he was running. The election, he said, was not about him, but about “you.” That is, not about the power elite. He said he would tax the rich and pay the poor; he would lead the alternate energy crusade, and make American independent of foreign oil producers; everyone who commits to public service shall get a higher education under his regime; the compassionate-conservative public-private alliance of the Republicans will be put to shame by an even more compassionate, Democratic alliance. The United States would still be the only civilized nation in the world without national health care, but at least the premiums would be cheaper if he were elected. Men and women would ge...

  ON THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF PATRIOTISM by David Arthur Walters Modern patriotism is nationalistic and appears to be a relatively new social phenomenon associated with the rise of nationalism coincident to the rebellions against the authority of the Church and its anointed princes. But loyalty to one's own native group or "nation" as well as dissidence is older than the hills of Rome. We find this handy historical recapitulation of patriotism in Edward Westermarck's The Origin and Development of Moral Ideals (1917):  "The citizens of Alexander's huge empire had in a way become citizen of the world.... There is also an obvious connection between the cosmopolitan idea and the Stoic system in general. According to the Stoics, human society has for its basis the identity of reason in individuals; hence we have no ground for limiting this society to a single nation.... The Roman ideal of patriotism, with its utter disregard of foreign nations....met with a formidab...

  GOOD AND EVIL AND WOMEN IN SAUDIA ARABIA BY DAVID ARTHUR WALTERS And for women are rights over men similar to those of men over women . Noble Quran 2:228 U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a rousing speech and danced a traditional tribal war dance with Arabs during his visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this month, where he described the war against terrorism as “a battle between Good and Evil,” and “not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations.” Rather, “This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate life, and decent people of all religions who seek to protect it.” He emphasized that everyone must “ fight together, because united, we will not fail .” We may recognize the distinction he would make between religion and morality because the long history of the religious cults of the so-called People of the Book i.e. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, demonstrate the underlying crisis or hypocrisy of their adherents, betw...

  Fatherism Depends on Good Fathers by David Arthur Walters Modern patriotism is nationalistic and appears to be a relatively new social phenomenon associated with the rise of nationalism coincident to the rebellions against the authority of the Church and its anointed princes. But loyalty to one's own native group or "nation" as well as dissidence is older than the hills of Rome. We find this handy historical recapitulation of patriotism in Edward Westermarck's The Origin and Development of Moral Ideals (1917): "The citizens of Alexander's huge empire had in a way become citizen of the world.... There is also an obvious connection between the cosmopolitan idea and the Stoic system in general. According to the Stoics, human society has for its basis the identity of reason in individuals; hence we have no ground for limiting this society to a single nation.... The Roman ideal of patriotism, with its utter disregard of foreign nations....met with a formidable a...