The 3 Principles to Perpetuate Poli-Ticks and Freedom

freedom is something earned. it does not occur naturally in the world, and so must be fought for. but just because it isn't the natural state, doesn't mean it isn't good. there has been more advancement and inovation in the past 200 years than in the previous 5,000, and this was spawned by an ideal of freedom and self reliance perpetuated in America. but freedom is not the natural state, and freedom will spin down into statism unless it is perpetuated by people who are freedom minded and who embody the habits of the heart.

there are three principles that are reliant upon each other, which must be perpetuated in any free people in order for them to stay free. these are often called the golden rule, or the habits of the heart. the habits of the heart are as follows: freedom requires virtue, virtue requires faith, and faith requires freedom. let's take an in depth look at these, leg by leg.

freedom requires virtue. hitler, stalin, mao, chavez, guevera, pol pot, kim jong il, this is a list of men without virtue. i hear some people extolling the virtues of socialism or communism or fascism and i am shocked, the leaders of these societies have or had no virtue. there is nothing virtuous about what they did, or what they achieved. in fact, the only thing virtuous in these societies were the people who died fighting them. hitler ordered the murder of 6 million jews, a staggering number, but total dead in concentration camps and POWs is up to approximately 12 million. stalin murdered an estimated 6 million in the gulags, while mao murdered a whopping estimated 78 million. that's 78,000,000. that's more than WWI and II combined. and that's across maos entire reign of terror. i knew the number was high, but when i actually saw the figure i had to stop and stare for a moment. these men had no virtue, they were cowards and murderers. north korea is so bad off, under kim jong un, that the people are eating each other. there is no freedom in these nations, there is no hope. freedom requires virtue.

virtue requires faith. all of the men above were staunch athiests. they denied any kind of faith in their nations, and would persecute any one who practiced religion. in china, people are regularly killed for practicing Christianity. Christians have to exist in secret, or they will be jailed and executed. faith provides a moral base line from which your decisions can be drawn. it's kind of hard to mistreat people when your religion tells you to love your neighbor as yourself. conversely, if there is no God, or your god tells you that the unbelievers have no rights, you can pretty much make a case for any actions and justifie it to yourself. virtue requires faith

and finally, faith requires freedom. this goes back to persecution, if you will be persecuted for practicing your religion, then it makes it kind of hard to keep that faith alive. the faithful die off, leaving the non believers who have no grounded moral standard. i hear the argument all the time that religion has been the cause of more loss of life than anything else. wrong. the greatest cause of loss of life is atheism, which lends itself most easily to regimes like the nazis, or communists. mao killed 78 million, and the toll is still rising in china. but in order to practice your faith, you need to have freedom. faith requires freedom.

freedom is the greatest boon to economics, ingenuity, and properity. let freedom ring.