Season 4 Podcast 37 “What is Equality Pt I”
First, let me pose a question: Have you considered how obvious inequality can be reconciled with the self-evident truth that all men are created equal by God? Everything we see around us suggests inequality. How can man be free and equal at the same time? Fundamentally that is why socialists and communists oppose a belief in God or freedom. Belief in God undermines socialism, and God-given equality undermines communism.
It is one thing to be created equal by God. It is another thing to be created equal by man or government. God-created-quality is absolute and cannot be taken from us; however, how we use that equality is up to us. All inequality is man-made. The only reason communism exists is because men are unequal in wealth, and government promises to make everyone equal, thus removing the burden of self-reliance. That is the goal of the liberal socialists of the democratic party.
Man-made equality, because it is quantitative, based on wealth, will always lead to totalitarianism and loss of freewill, freedom, and agency. It is in concomitant variation. The greater power government has, the less freedom you have or to put it another way, as government increases in power, you decrease in freedom.
We must distinguish between freedom and liberty. They are not the same thing. To be definitive I would have to write a book so I can only give the short version. Government is in charge of your liberty; you are in charge of your freedom. However, freedom must work within the parameters of government-controlled liberty. Liberty is based on manmade laws. Freedom is based on individual potential driven by desire. It may seem paradoxical, but government can increase your liberty while taking away your freedom.
Let me provide a few peculiar examples, consequences of the democratic platform, all of which I never thought I would see in America.
1. Providing safe injection sites for drug addicts.
2. Open borders
3. Defunding police
4. Making a law saying stealing $1000 is a misdemeanor.
5. Sanctuary cities.
6. Releasing criminals without bail
7. Freeing criminals without prosecution
8. Releasing criminals from prison in violation of the court appointed sentences
Do I even need to point out the obvious of how that decreases freedom. Do you feel safer? Would you carry a thousand dollars on big city streets? How many big stores have had to close their doors because of unprosecuted theft? How many small businesses cannot afford to remain open. Store owners cannot even call the police for there are not enough policemen to go around. Police don’t bother with rapes or robbery. Understaffed their response time is slow and unreliable. They don’t even bother with crimes under a thousand dollars per individual, meaning a mob can bankrupt you in one evening and go unprosecuted as long as they individually stay under a thousand dollars. This all occurred because of the policies of the democratic party in trying to create equality.
God who created all men and women equally protects our freewill and agency. What then, do we mean, when we say that all men are created equal by God? Talents differ but equality is not measured by talents. There are many ways God created us equal, but let me give you eight things to consider:
1. We lived with God before coming to this earth. We are all children of God equal in his sight.
