Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Your Gods... Did Nothing During the 2 WWs! - And FDR Was Who, Exactly? Oskar Schindler Did What, Exactly?

Q: "Your gods and goddesses during the 2WWs did nothing to prevent or to save millions who perished and suffered praying to their gods" Well, you have shown how you are a fundamentalist who rejects human biological evolution. You don´t understand the significance of empiricism and the empirical scientific method for the significance of the theory of the Big Bang. Two strikes. Belief in, or praying to God, isn´t just about automatic "protection" of millions. Although FDR did start war preparations earlier than most and overcame isolationists, and FDR had exceptionally high integrity as a Social Gospel Christian. Other than that, was every church actually involved in high integrity Christian worship in Christian-derived society? Hardly. In ancient mesopotamia with Sargon of Akkad or Alexander the Great, or the dead Caesar by his great nephew Octavian Augustus or the like, declaring himself or his great uncle a God, the gods had little integrity. Moses had had special experiences and left a special message. All kinds of things happened, and then came Jesus and his legacy in history. If church dogma is the standard, or Jewish rabbis, what had they demonstrated, anyway, on the whole or in different groups and individuals? Jesus taught a level of integrity in his loving Commandments for Moses and God and the need for spiritual practice in "seeking the Kingdom of Heaven." The Jewish people also had teachings about the Mosaic Top Ten Commandments, and the history of their prophets. People in those two groups have to analyze their relationship to those questions of integrity in relation to God, and larger meanings. Levels of Analysis and Explanation are necessary to be clear about how much integrity has been sacrificed in hypocrisy and worse. Christian Scientists have further specific teachings related to protection and healing. They are a specific denomination, and along with Christianity´s diverse denominations and the Jewish religion, all are distinctions that you seem to miss entirely in thinking about the meaning of God, prayer, and protection, and so on. Again, Levels of Analysis and Explanation have to analyzed to be clear about integrity and hypocrisy, and worse. At the level of national and international action, FD Roosevelt as president of the US represents a clear demonstration of how God through Jesus involves Jesus´ historical legacy of loving integrity. FDR had relatively high integrity, and had been educated in the Social Gospel movement, not least of all. FDR had to decide to support the investigation of rich corporate executives after the 1929 Stock Market crash and the Great Depression, and later overcome the influence of isolationists like the celebrity Charles Lindbergh, no less to begin early preparations to fight WWII. Levels of Analysis and Explanation make clear that FDR had an exceptional commitment to pro-social attitudes and to helping the UK, and even the besieged Soviet Russia, as the fight against Hitler´s Nazi conquests became clearly defined. FDR regretted not helping the anti-Franco forces in Spain. That, however, was where "isolationists" prevailed, along with some cultural differences. Recall that the government of the atheistic Stalin had collaborated with Hitler in invading Poland. The governments of France and the UK in their secular materialism and obedient secularized national churches had appeased Hitler around Sudetenland, with UK objections including Winston Churchill. Rome had formally objected to Hitler by 1937 and the German Confessional Churches by 1936 already. FDR´s early preparations based on high Christian integrity thus represent how God´s will through Jesus was in operation at the national, large scale societal level in relation to people´s free will and the need to make choices around Christian integrity, in particular. Centuries earlier, the abolition of slavery had been accomplished by the pioneering social movement when T Clarkson approached the high integrity Quaker Friends to anchor him. He then led organizing and research efforts among the populace, with William Wilberforce important in Parliament. Thus, Oskar Schindler was a profiteering businessman who was a Catholic showing how he chose Christian integrity in a complex situation. Albert Goering, brother of Nazi leader Hermann, took similar actions, along with notable numbers of others. Edith Stein was a Jewish woman philosopher who converted to Catholicism, but was identified as of Jewish descent in Holland. She had refused to flee out of solidarity. Henri Bergson was a Jewish philosopher who wanted to convert to Catholicism, but delayed while WWII was unfolding against the Jews. Meanwhile, Israel had been trying to help Jews flee, and was interfered with by the British, also involving complex Muslim and geopolitical dynamics that promoted hypocrisy, not integrity. Even Einstein showed this, since as Jewish, he was not accepted at Harvard or Oxford, but Princeton. Oxford did later make him an offer. All that involves understanding the complex Levels of Analysis and Explanation. In short, Jesus´ legacy has led to University-based developments and the power of science, technology, and democracy. That has also been abused by profiteers, monarchs, and political figures like Stalin, Hitler, and Tojo. FDR showed how God operates through a man of high integrity in a powerful nation who could overcome isolationists, and then establish a new institution like the UN and its human rights values. The Jewish Zionists declared Israel for another development. Germany has made strong shows of redemption in their various good qualities after WWII. as has Japan. The role of clarifying the importance of spiritual practice in human behavior and integrity standards of the level that Jesus established in the line to secular human rights also.

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