if no brotherly love of Christianity, no the US, or a nonsense

When we talk about American society today, we no longer hear the words “brotherly love”. When asked what is American? Most people think whoever believes in and trusts in the United States constitution is an American, and all Americans should unite under the constitution. These are also the contents taught in citizenship education. The oath of Naturalization is also about supporting and defending the Constitution of the United States. Many immigrate to the United States just for its democracy, freedom, equality, and the American dream of bringing wealth and career. I guess no one will immigrate to the United States now for the “brotherly love”. And no one knows that Winthrop is the Founding Father of the country, and no one knows the destination he went to North America is for the love of brothers, to build a city on the hill, the coming United States. If without brotherly love, do democracy, freedom, and equality exist in the United States? Is there really an American dream?

We can find that democratic elections have been kept for hundreds of years in Protestant countries, but it is difficult to uphold for a long time in other societies. Why? In Protestant countries, people all believe in God and the same Bible; all believe that everyone is equal under God and full of brotherly love. When selecting their own managers, resolving conflicts, disputes, and other important matters, they firmly believe that everyone is brother and utterly equal; no one has the right above the others. Therefore, those significant matters will be decided on the basis of the democratic principle agreed upon by the majority. And it had three critical contents: first, democratic elections are closely related to religious belief, and religious belief is related to immortality and eternality linking with the ultimate world. People will treat the votes in their hands with the most holiness and piety. Election fraud is impossible, let alone election corrupt, because these actions will be considered blasphemous, sacrilegious, and profane, blocking people from going to heaven. Second, democratic elections are based on equality for all. Only by believing in equality for all can we stick to the principle of majority decision. Otherwise, it will be another matter. For example, in a secular society without belief, there is apparent inequality between people before everyone’s eyes. As big men, they don’t think that democratic elections are effective. They look down on the small people from their hearts, let alone let the small people decide important things. Even if democratic elections are carried out in such a society, these big men will inevitably use bribery, corruption, and other tricks to influence and control the election. It is natural they will win the election in the end. They think doing that is right as rain. People have various grades and ranks, higher or lower. In the end, it must be the big men to control society. Otherwise, the whole society will be in chaos. This phenomenon can be seen in most so-called democratic countries except Protestant countries, all countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and even some Catholic countries in Europe. It can be said that even though Catholicism is part of Christianity, like Protestantism, no Catholic country can escape from the ruin of democracy and fall into a dictatorship by the big men. Napoleon of France, Hitler of Germany, Mussolini of Italy, Franco of Spain, etc., because Catholicism does not believe that all people are equal under God. They believe in hierarchy and religious hierarchy. The Catholic countries in Europe still trust the hierarchical order of the pope, cardinal, archbishop, bishop, etc., let alone other societies. Thirdly, democratic elections are closely linked to brotherly love. It can only be held In a community full of brotherly love; everyone is happy to win or lose, respects each other, and never corrupts the election.

However, once the society loses the love of brothers, which is the basis of a democratic election, even if the community still believes in the alleged equality between people, there will be no real democratic election. I want to talk about such a society, today’s American society after it loses brotherly love. As a traditional Protestant country with nearly 400 years of tradition, the idea of equality for all has profound deposits, and it is impossible to clear up at once. Therefore, although American society is becoming more and more secular, the idea of equality for all is still accepted by most people. However, It turns into equality for all without faith and brotherly love, the alleged rational equality for all. American society differs from the standard non–Protestant countries in which people don’t have the concept of equality at all. But without faith and brotherly love, will everyone be equal? After losing faith, each of us becomes an individual who purely pursues his own desires. We know that human desires are endless, and human desires without the restriction of faith are even more unscrupulous. We will no longer feel other people’s feelings and pain, never take any rules or conscience into account, let alone brotherly love. At this time, these individuals are bound to interfere and manipulate the election by any means to satisfy their own best interests. Therefore, the election is constantly interfered with and destroyed by various means. The more dare to break the rules, the more vice to violate their conscience, the more likely they to win the election, and the whole society will become a society of bad money driving out good money. Ultimately, the higher the rank in society is, the eviler they are. Therefore, in the end,the so-called rational equality for all cannot be maintained. The final result is a dictatorship because it is obvious how these evil and nasty people can believe in equality for all? And why will they support equality for all?

Isn’t it the way the dictator of European Catholic countries came to power? At first, they slowly destroyed the election rules, then manipulated the election, and finally controlled the election by armed forces. When Hitler’s SS held the charge gun, five steps, one whistle, ten steps, one post, who dared to elect anyone else except Hitler? Therefore I have no bit of confidence in the future of the United States because today, America has lost the love of brothers, the foundation of America, the first stone of God’s city on the hill founded by Winthrop. The United States is more and more depravity and more and more on the old road to dictatorship. Now, there is no brotherly love between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The democratic election has become a war and a life-and-death struggle for each other. From the early presidential election, we can see that although all parties also attacked each other, the mood of the election was peaceful and civilized. But today, it is totally different. The Republicans represented the Christians and Conservatives; the Democrats represented anti-Christians advocating unconditional equality. There is an apparent and giant chasm between them; society has been torn apart. The election campaign was permeated with the blowing smoke of gunpowder, suffused with acrimony, vicious words, and even curses. Two years ago, the election war between Hilary and Trump was filled with hatred and malice. Hilary attacked Trump for his harassing and insulting women. Trump struck back that compared to what Hillary’s husband, Bill Clinton, had done to many women, he had done nothing with women at all. Trump also hit back that Hilary tried to deceive the United States all the time; she was even dissatisfied with her husband; how could she satisfy the entire United States? Moreover, after Trump was elected president, the Democrats still went on the fight. Democratic lawmakers incited people to assassinate Trump; News anchors held Trump’s bloody head statue, and Comedians publicly mocked him at the rally. Trump was vindictive and vengeful too. He took revenge with such words to democrats, “garbage, stupid, cheater,” etc.

Of course, I don’t mean that people must always remain gentle and polite in all life and people cannot criticize each other, but at least they should not be so malicious, naked, and reckless. But from the mid-term elections in the United States a few days ago, the environment had been even worse. The Democratic Party had committed many election frauds, using fake votes, votes of non-voters, and even the dead’s identity. If this continues, it will inevitably develop into more severe election fraud such as election bribery, election violence, and so on. The Democratic Party also evilly colludes with the main media; due to the natural anti-religious tendency of intellectuals, the Democrats and the main media are naturally integrated; they are tarred with the same brush. The main media lost fair and just principles for their own interests, not to mention they had lost the brotherly love long ago. They condemned Trump overwhelmingly and believed Goebbels’s “A lie repeated a thousand times is true.” They wish to oust Trump, who dared to confront the “king without a crown.” It is a society without brotherly love. The Republican also has the fatal defects of ordinary people, who are timid and overcautious, muddle along, and dare not to fight. And if things go on like this, the whole society will be controlled by the people who do false, cheat, use violence, and believe in lies. We can imagine the morality and quality of those leaders sinking in this environment. Society gradually degenerated into a secular society, abandoned equality for all, and slowly believed that people have high and low. Those leaders believed they were wise and great helmspersons, the steerer of a new society. Because of the loss of faith, god, this is very natural thinking. Therefore, the whole society naturally went into a dictatorship. Don’t think I’m just talking nonsense. Some sociologists in the United States are already considering the weight of votes. That is, of the more influential people, one vote can weigh thousands of others. It shows that the United States has slowly abandoned equality for all and gradually degenerated. So I personally don’t take an optimistic view about the future of America. America is far away from God and brotherly love. No one in America today mentions brotherly love. Even most politicians may not know that Winthrop’s sermon “building a city on a hill.” All Americans have long forgotten brotherly love, the country’s ground, the cornerstone of the city on the hill. All that has been forgotten totally, wholly. But leaving away the love of brothers, Without this cornerstone, God’s city on a hill will break down one day; the United States must fall apart one day.

Democratic elections can never be used to resolve the conflict of faith and values, nor is it a way for secular society to solve the dispute of vital interests. Democratic elections only solve the problem by consultation and negotiation among brothers in a society full of brotherly love; everyone in this society is like a brother and believes in equality for all under God. Without this premise, there can be no real democratic election. There has never been a country in human history where two religions account for half of the population and can remain in harmony for a long time. The conflict between faiths and values can only be resolved through war or by dividing into several independent countries. It is impossible to resolve this conflict through democratic elections at all. For example, there has never been a country with half Christian and half Muslim. It is why India split into two countries(India and Pakistan), and the South Union was divided into several small countries. The most obvious example is the South Union divided into several countries by various religions. In a secular society like ancient China, the dispute of huge interests could not be solved through democratic elections because no one trusted the others, and no one would accept an election result unfavorable to him. The only way to solve this problem was through force and war. This is also the reason why ancient China could only shape a country through wars, and it was impossible to form a union peacefully.

European countries, such as France, and Germany, can ban guns because the United States stations 100000 troops in Europe. Japan, South Korea, and other Asian countries can make gun bans; the United States also stations 60000 troops in Asia. If the United States, the biggest country not banning guns, bans guns, then according to human experience, the above countries will inevitably slide into dictatorship in a flash. Some people may not convince by my argument. However, suppose I argue that there are only one and a half countries where dictatorships have not happened in history; anyone who has a little common sense should only agree with me. In that case, one country is America; a half country is Britain (referring to the British having monarchy). Other countries, such as France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy, Spain, or any country you can think of, have once appeared as a dictatorship. It is the trend of human history. I have always emphasized that democracy, freedom, and equality are anti-human, which is hard to maintain for a long time. Dictatorship and autocracy are the most comfortable to human nature. Therefore, dictatorship and autocracy are also the most common social system. History constantly repeats in the same way. Imagine if the United States, as the last barrier to freedom and equality, bans guns? How can we resist the abuse of secular government? How can we ensure that the United States will not appear as a dictatorship? If the United States had a dictator, we could imagine how terrible the world would be! It is not exaggerating to be described as Doom Day is coming. So the United States must not ban guns, especially today when It is increasingly far away from brotherly love.

Many people think the cause of the United State’s great and mighty is the American Constitution, which stipulates a democratic election, the separation of three powers, judicial independence, electoral politics, etc. All those don’t refer to faith or brotherly love. However, this argument is completely off base. The system designed by man can only be a gewgaw in the front of the greed and degeneration of human nature. Ancient Greek democracy is a living example. In ancient Greece, The formation of a democratic society was closely related to its polytheistic religion. The democracy of ancient Greece was far more sophisticated than contemporary people thought. Except for military officials, other officials were selected by lottery. It is the fairest and most democratic election in human history. However, along with the collapse of faith, with the endless pursuit of human desire, the selected members became more and more evil and corrupt. These selected members can execute Socrates and defeated generals. It is an injustice that such a country should not be dictated to or subjugated. ①Since democratic elections are based on brotherly love, they are a way to negotiate and resolve problems between brothers with deep feelings and strong affections. Therefore, It is also highly fragile and easy to exploit by plotters and conspirators. Let’s look at the process of Hitler’s coming to power, and why I say that will be more explicit.

On the surface, Hitler and his Nazi party were promoted to power by voters following legal procedures. But almost all the means behind the legal procedures to seize power are illegal and blatantly trampled on constitutional principles. As far as July 1921, when Hitler took the lead over the Nazi party, he immediately set out to build the armed forces of the Nazi Party. In August of the same year, the armed forces maintaining “order” during his rally evolved into a paramilitary military uniform. This armed force played an irreplaceable role in Hitler’s capturing of power and became a Stormtrooper that wantonly destroyed the democratic constitution. By 1933, the stormtrooper had provoked 40000 armed fights throughout the country and continuously perpetrated terrorist incidents. Those fights, murders, and explosions killed all political discussions and opponents’ political space, making Germany fall into a most difficult and chaotic situation after World War I. The stormtrooper made significant contributions to Hitler’s rising to power. Not much later, Hitler expanded his bodyguard, the SS, to replace the position of The stormtrooper, the SS was loyal to Hitler only, and it was both military and secret police. By the mid-1930s, 45000 secret police officers of the SS had been deployed throughout the country, monitoring hostile activities to the government. Its 65000 security police and 2.8 million discipline police guarded Hitler. In addition, there were 40000 guards in 160 labor camps and 20 concentration camps nearby, cruelly persecuting innocent “Prisoners” and anti-fascist soldiers. There was also 100000 security intelligence personnel closely monitoring the ideological trend of the people. All of this let Hitler almost control the whole of Germany. Therefore, Hitler seized the highest power by destroying and abandoning the democratic procedure and rules rather than complying with them.

“Weimar constitution” of German was almost one of the most liberal and democratic constitutions in the 20th century. Its structure was almost perfect and had many ingenious and admirable provisions, which seemed to be enough to guarantee the implementation of a nearly perfect and flawless democracy. “(“The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, History of Nazi Germany,” p. 85). However, the Weimar constitution failed because sophisticated and complicated designs couldn’t fight back the greed and degradation of human nature; it could not resist the people’s fear of death and cowardice. Moreover, It happened at a time when German Christianity was more vulnerable than at anytime else; otherwise, it was difficult to believe that German fanatically idolized a layman more than God. Democratic elections are not very rare, they have existed in different periods of humans, but they can not be held on for a long time. Because of human nature, democracy, freedom, and equality are actually the most anti-human nature and are totally contrary to the common sense we see in reality. Democratic elections are secure and reliable only when everyone is equal under God and based on brotherly love. This is also proved by human experience so far. Therefore, I have no confidence in an America which is going away from God and brotherly love.

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①  Matthew R  “The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens”  Christ. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.