Fiber

The soul of a nation . . .

. . . depends on the souls of its people.

What happens when a nation tears itself apart?

It has detached itself from a Transcendent source of Truth.

Watch our Truth in Two to find out why (full text below).

National unity is impossible if there is no true Truth to unify around.

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FULL TEXT

In the 1980’s my students and I would read and critique the Humanist Manifestos I & II. The observation most often made by high school students was “Where do the Humanist Manifestos concept of human rights originate?” They asked the question because they saw the atrocities of nation states such as the USSR and Communist China. The second question students would ask, always at the same time as the first, was “by whose authority can these statements be made?” The instruction of authority matters.

The MORAL FIBER of a nation is tied directly to its teaching, its instruction. “The law” often spoken of in Proverbs is “torah,” the instructional foundation for a people whose belief rests in fearing God.

But in a society that has forsaken outside revelation, claims for “justice” or what is “right” are established only by those who wield power.

And “power” is not simply governmental power but must include power of control: control of language, words, definitions, and dissemination of knowledge.

Before anyone claims what is “just,” for instance, they must claim a standard for what is “right.” If the claim is based simply on an individual person or even a collective group of persons, the question will always remain, “Who are you to tell me?”

So a nation detached from outside teaching based on a supernatural source cannot claim the definition of words apart from brutal power; power in the streets, or power in government, or power in the halls of commerce, or power in the halls of learning, or power of the press.

Neither side, influential institutions nor protesting individuals, can become the arbiter, the definer of words, apart from either naked power or teaching clothed in righteousness.

And lest one think, “Ah ha! Now I can climb to the moral high ground of my nation!” that person must ask themselves, “What is the moral fiber of my soul?”

For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, President of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking truth wherever it’s found.

– My thoughts based on observations from Proverbs 28:1-14