THE LANDSCAPE OF TRUTH

Thelandscapeoftruth.com has two goals: first, thelandscapeoftruth.com seeks to demonstrate how Protestant Christianity made possible a Western culture that secures the liberties of common individuals; and, second, thelandscapeoftruth.com seeks to empower our liberty loving readers by helping them to understand current events as thelandscapeoftruth.com cultivates within them a systematic understanding of Christian theology, Western philosophy, science, and political science. To accomplish its goals, thelandscapeoftruth.com addresses the societal relationship that modern civilization stands upon: a relationship that Church and civil leaders fail to reconcile. Thelandscapeoftruth.com correlates the ongoing relationship between historical civilizations (which ancient peoples organized around the significance of kindred group-communities) and modern civilization (which western governments organize around the significance of enfranchising the individual). As it secures its aims, thelandscapeoftruth.com demonstrates how the increasingly integrating global economy threatens Judeo-Christian culture and Western democracy.
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Immanuel's Law: the World’s First Scientifically Falsifiable Proof for the Existence of God and the Human Soul

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Between the Two Walls: the Delicate Balance between Conservative Policies that Reward Merit and Liberal Policies that Pursue Social Equity

Published November 29, 2021 – thelandscapeoftruth.com
We feel increasingly disheartened by the challenges to domestic and international peace, as we view the challenges broadcasts on news media every day. Demoralized by witnessing cultural and international conflict, we see Western democracies erecting walls and barriers to keep out foreigners. And so, most cannot remember or even regard the universal excitement that multitudes of peoples felt, as they viewed the dismantling of the Berlin Wall: a physical and ideological barrier dividing the German capital City of Berlin. One side of the city stood under the jurisdiction of industrialized western democracies, which continue to oversee free commercial markets; while the other side stood under the jurisdiction of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), which oversaw government controlled commercial markets.
You see, since European commoner populations left the feudal-order’s farming-based, agrarian economies; western constitutional governments have wrestled with two economic approaches to govern commercial economies: the first economic approach seeks a less influential smaller government that allows private people and businesses to own the economies’ means of production, distribution, and exchange, all for the profit of the private owners. This first economic approach, we call free market capitalism. And the second economic approach seeks for the whole community through the auspices of government to own the economies’ means of production, distribution, and exchange; as the second approach seeks to distribute the economies’ profits based upon the community’s needs. The second economic approach, we call socialism or communism. Both approaches are vital for the commercial economies’ endurance to some extent; and an excessive reliance upon one approach in disregard to the merits of the other, invariably leads to tyranny: the very confounding of democratic freedom. For example, the free market, capitalism, approach to the commercial economy operates under the ideal of rewarding personal merit, trusting that individual entrepreneurship produces the most efficient use of scarce resources for the whole population; whereas the socialist approach to the commercial economy operates under the ideal of equity, which endeavors to provide everyone with resources to succeed, regardless of their individual capacities. However, the difficulties that both approaches, respectively, face is the fact that an attempt to recognize individual merit, only, overlooks the reality that the scarcity of opportunity does not always afford would be industrious individuals with chances to succeed. Likewise, an attempt to recognize equity for all often rewards and encourages indolence and low expectations of achievement. Upon the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent end of the Cold War between the United States and the defeated Soviet Union; the free market capitalist system seemed to have won over socialism, handedly. A global economy has now even emerged to fill the void of the Cold War era conflict: indeed, billions of peoples emerge from centuries old agrarian servitude to participate in the now globalized commercial economy. But as a new millennial generation have come of age at the dawn of the global economy; they are sensitive to the social disparities between developed Western nations and non-Western nations. As a consequence, socialist policies have rapidly gained new support within the United States, which is ironically the champion and leader of free market capitalism. To their credit, the younger generations of Americans strive to support any policy that seeks to eradicate all forms of bigotry; however, in their rush to produce policies that seek equity; policy makers undermine many western values that have been a bulwark for all races against the ills of commercial society. For example, many religious traditions have fostered centuries-old cultural practices that have naturally bridged the chasm between the societal need to respect one’s personal merit and the societal need to grant opportunity to the systemically disadvantaged. Two fundamentally crucial Protestant traditions are as follows: first, one’s personal faith is a gift of God, which one may not assume others share. And so, second, in respect of one’s personal gift that one has not acquired by one’s own efforts, one must indiscriminately love all, being charitable to all. In other words, many Christians have for a long time championed the belief that their skills and acquired wealth are gifts of God, to the end that God expects the gifted to share the rewards of their talents with others. Thus, looking ahead, we here at thelandscapeoftruth.com seek to uphold the understanding that we must encourage such Christian traditions rather than always haphazardly resorting to legislation that forces equity, often with undesirable and unforeseen consequences. It is our understanding that the key cultural traditions that individuals have come to regard, renders individual citizens a natural jurisprudence, that is, the personal judgement to upkeep and participate in our democratic society. Having this view in mind, thelandscapeoftruth.com intends to produce a series of articles and editorials that address significant issues, in regards to the balance between the two economic policy approaches. Namely, we will assess critical race theory; open border policy; corporate censorship; and the market accountability failure that exacerbated the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
  • Published June 18, 2020 – thelandscapeoftruth.com
    “But I say unto you, love your enemies . . . and pray for them that despitefully use you,” bellowed the words from the peaceful Lord Jesus unto the crowds that were in wonder over his liberating words: while beholding in awe his liberty, they stood in bondage to social strife. And indeed, we (also shackled) continue to wonder how is it possible that society can soberly consider today’s contentious issues, such as the U.S. border crises, and not allow combative passions to prejudice groups of citizens against each other; as each group considers those who oppose their perspectives as villains of no worth.
  • Published October 28, 2020 – thelandscapeoftruth.com
    In the sense of international trade for profits that do not necessarily represent the direct interests of a democratically empowered people, the global economy is certainly not a new phenomenon: if we conclude that the signing of the United States of America’s Constitution inaugurated the modern democratic era wherein common people have a say over their nation’s commercial and trade policies; we may safely conclude that international trade, unfettered by the will of common people, represents 93.4 percent of civilization’s 5000 years history.
  • New whispers have been going around in recent years amongst African American women about an inspiring prodigy, Misty Copeland, a principal ballerina, who is of German, Italian, and African American decent. We, thelandscapeoftruth.com, finally took a few days to observe the performances of the ballet Swan Lake, featuring Ms. Copeland and other principal dancers of the dance company, the American Ballet Theatre (ABT). We also recently took a few days to observe the practice sessions and subsequent tennis match of Serena Williams, another African American prodigy that African American women have been happily murmuring about amongst themselves for years.

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