Tuesday, March 16, 2010
For the Benefit of Humanity, The Common Good and such absurdities.
Being that we cannot be divorced from our own perspectives it is an absurd impossibility to try to posit any idea or thing that is good for all humanity at all times, even the good of a group is a relatively improbable goal. Unless one is dealing with a political party or a fraternal/religious group the aims of a group are so diverse as to render any action claimed good on the behalf of an unknowable humanity is pointless and quite possibly destructive. What allows Political; Fraternal and Religious groups to overcome this limitation. The truth is that the shared ideology and culture of these groups gives them focus however this shared focus only mitigates the diversion of perspective a prime example of a group that has taken this into full account is the Church of Satan in their stand as an apolitical religious group. The marginally political adjustments advocated by this church are an extending of their ideology rather than the views of political ideology of the membership overcoming the organization of the religious group. What are these political goals? Income and Property Taxes for all Religions and Total removal of the concept in law that allows for patronage of Religion by government. Now if this sounds counter to their interests as a church one is sadly mistaken, rather it is the extending of their dictum "Responsibility to the Responsible." In this effort I can wish them only success as any nation to truly sever church and state power must eventually do these things to ensure the freedom of its' citizens. Now to think about this in practice is quite simple, a Church is a corporate body, the law governing them requires articles of incorporation therefore the taxes applied to corporate bodies should naturally extend to all corporations otherwise the concept of equality before the law is null and void.
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