Moral Perfection
A moral person is perfect and without blemish. This world has dissuaded many people that perfection is far from us. We are told it is not possible to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect. Humans are mortal and spiritually weak, given over to sin and the lusts of the flesh.
The implication is that it does not make sense for anyone to try and better themselves in a serious way. A desire for perfection is not part of liberal theory nor democracy. Nor is an explicit commitment to perfection found in conservatism. The power and influence of a true leader is not discovered by promoting liberalism or moral freedom. When people are given freedom they need the sword, the fist, and courts, to maintain order. Liberals need officers wielding special powers to keep the peace. Once people are freed of moral constraints, they need the law and the lawmaker to impose order on them.
Man without God is a lover of law and when he acquires power alienated man rules by right of law. Man without God exercises power in the form of institutional authority. He is as powerful as his legal stratagems work.
The Scribes and Pharisees were legalists; they were not moral absolutists. Jesus was the ultimate moral leader; he was perfect not because of the law but in spite of it. His morality marked him as a moral absolutist. A moral absolutist asserts that there is an absolute right and wrong and a path to follow that stays on one side of an unequivocal line.
Moral absolutists believe there is an absolute standard we are subject to, and this standard is not found in the law nor in the rule of any lawmaker.
The moral absolute transcends the law and all legal systems.
There are only two paths to follow, the moral and ethical, the phenomenological and the analytical. These paths are usually expressed as moral relativism and moral absolutism. Moral relativists span the gamut from socialism to fascism, indeed any system reliant on law is morally relativist. A democracy, in this sense, is as much a tyranny as a monarchy, at least in potentiality. It is not the form of the state that makes it a tyranny, it is the law they operate under. A democracy with an absolute majority is a tyranny the same way an autocracy is, if the law reflects only the position of the majority.
If the law is absolute, the state is a tyranny, regardless of what form the state has taken.
Perfectionists need to lead by principle and exhibit exemplary behaviour. The power of perfectionism is not vested in legal or institutional authority but rests on the Word of God. The moral leader does not create costs for others to pay. If anything, a perfectionist will seek to lighten the burden of others. The legalist imposes obligations on his followers, whereas perfectionists lead by example. In fact, they cannot do anything other than this, because the minute one assumes authority, one has abandoned perfectionism as a way of life or goal.
Ethical leaders lead by virtue of their institutional authority. Ethics is an application of the law of the jungle, a proposition that asserts might makes right and the end justifies the means.
In a jungle if you have the power to do it, ethically you have the right to do it. No one can judge you other than by their power to prevent or punish you for infringing upon their power to do what is ethically right, as defined by law.
The power that you have to do it, justifies the doing of it. In ethics there is no other justification than the power to act and nothing that defines error other than the inability to do what you wish to do, because of someone’s greater power.
Right and wrong are defined by legal and illegal, in ethical systems, and justified by the ability of the law to be enforced or not. This naturally poses a problem, not for ethics but for the powerful who are required to justify their power, by demonstrating their power over their subordinates. This is also a problem for the subordinates because they live under the constant uncertainty of who their ruler is. Never mind understanding what the law says.
Laws were introduced to regulate the challenges that the ruler would face but also to limit the power of the ruler. With the power of the ruler restrained there was less opposition to the power of the state. The ruler guaranteed to moderate his power if the people promised to moderate their challenges to his power. Thus, subjects were permitted elections and were given laws to regulate the state in a more orderly and predictable way. This did not change the fundamental right of the ruler to control the disposition of property, and therefore to define the value of the property so disposed. This means that at the base of every ethical system there is a large power disparity. The ruler still retains a monopoly on power, in that the power of all other agencies is defined by law and subordinate to the power of the state.
Laws never reflect reality; they reflect the values of the lawmaker. The lawmaker in his making of the law, attempts to put himself in the place of God. It is not just that he makes laws and regulations that others must live by, he makes laws which reflect his vision of the how the world ought to be, and how people ought to live.
Ethical systems are causal and push people to where the leader wishes them to go. The law underwrites a way of life that is required by law and by this means creates a baseline below which no one is to fall. In this way people are pushed towards the way of life, validated by the ruler.
The law has only the validity and power that the lawmaker can give it. Without the power of enforcement, the law is just someone’s opinion.
Are you under the law?
Do you operate by the law?
Is your business or employer a maker or follower of rules and regulations?
Do you have laws you must follow, and do you do your best to follow them?
Then you are a legalist and you are ethical by default.
The law cannot save you and your obedience to the law can only condemn you.
But you are saved, you think, regardless of the particulars of your situation. Even though you live under the law Christians still assume they are saved by that which is not compatible with the law.
Christians claim they are saved by faith though they live as if their hope was in the law and on their ability to follow the law. Christians put themselves under the law, regardless of whether they choose a pope to rule over them or the legalistic state.
Catholicism and Protestantism are beholden to two bodies of law with two sets of law givers, but one set of laws and one king is as good as another, or as bad.
How can we save Christianity or be saved by it, when it is or has become a system, if not legalistic, subject to the legalistic state? Christians claim to live in faith but require the state to rule over them and to administrate the communities in which they live.
What does the faith of a Christian consist of but a tacit capitulation to the state and its religious arm which is the conventional Christian church.
If one had faith in God or His people, what use would the state be, or what use would we have for its agencies? If we lived in faith, we would have no other Gods but God Almighty and no other truth, but the truth of Scripture.
The Three Moral Truths are these:
We need to follow Christ. A morally perfect being must be purposeful, to have direction and a destination.
We need to listen to the Spirit. The moral leader is analytical and logical as well as moral. The truth is the Holy Spirit and he is in us. The truth is discerned in faith. We must believe without qualification.
We need to trust in the Father. We need to believe the Word of God. We are to follow the straight and narrow way. A conservative is moral, disciplined and orderly. He is in control of himself and seeks to perfect himself.
To be a perfectionist is to be guided by the Spirit and this means we strive for absolute moral perfection. The Holy Spirit is perfect; He cannot guide anywhere but to a morally perfect life. To be perfected is to become the most perfect version of ourselves.
In our faith we endeavor to be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect. The morally perfect person is the epitome of what it means to be conservative.
The children of God are equal in His sight. We are the sons and daughters of God. We need to be charitable with one another and produce more than we consume. We need to add value to the things of God. These are conservative sentiments.
The ethical leader looks for ways to justify his consumption. Ethical leaders claim they want to help this or that group, but they are always looking to justify a handout.
The state justifies its existence by providing support for the free rider and the free rider justifies the help he gets by claiming the status of a victim. Without this synergy neither the free loader nor the state could exist.
The state pretends to help, and the free rider pretends he or she is being helped. This justifies the expropriation of wealth from those who produce the wealth.
Thus, there is the illusion of moral leadership with liberals, when in fact what the government does is a scam perpetuated by free riders or parasites on conservatives. Social justice is nothing more a scam. Perfectionists are targeted because we care about results and are taken advantage of because of our compassion.
A simple solution to the problem of exploitation (which is ultimately man’s attempt to usurp the position of God), is Apriorian Apologetics which understands the reason for our faith is the moral absolutism of the Holy Spirit. Perfectionists prioritize and promote morality and moral living and that requires obedience to God. Only the Holy Spirit know the path to perfection.
Apriorians are moral perfectionists pledged to live morally perfect lives. Moral discipline leads to moral perfection. Moral perfection multiplied creates a morally perfect community.
A morally perfect community is without unemployment, debt, poverty, inflation, pollution, waste, taxation, homelessness, war, and crime. Morally perfection eliminates the state.
Merit equals morality. One has merit or earned merit as one has acquired morality or moved closer towards moral perfection.
Perfecton is a morally perfect group created by morally perfect beings.
Perfecton’s are both modular and fractal. They are formed on a small group or social networking foundation.
Perfecton’s contain from between five and twelve members, but a group can be started with as few as three persons.
Each group appoints a chairperson.
The small group determines a standard rate of pay or living wage. This is the amount of money the average person needs to earn per week, to live a reasonable life, divided by 40. This gives the small group the hourly wage for each person.
Each member of a Perfecton is credited a week’s income. Each member of the group is now able to purchase goods and services from other members of the group.
All a group requires is a way to keep accounts. Members are given receipt books. The seller gives a credit receipt to the buyer, and the buyer gives a debit receipt to the seller.
The buyer’s account is debited, and the seller’s account is credited.
Books are balanced by the reconciliation of the receipts.
The credit receipts received by the seller are income and offset the debit receipts.
Members only need to be shown how to write credit and debit receipts and given a list of members from who they can buy and to whom they can sell. Because there is always an inclination to purchase goods and services, members will find what they have to sell in high demand. This will create economic development, and because accounts are maintained at parity, there is no inflation or depression or cyclical periods.
Nor will there be unemployment, taxation will be eliminated and financial crime will largely be a thing of the past.