Is the question of sovereignty centrally important? Some friends would immediately reply: "Unwilling to part with sovereignty! That is a hard-shell attitude. Too many people trying to preserve too much sovereignty has made the world a difficult place to live in. We must be willing to sacrifice some sovereignty. The only way to get peace is to take part in a world government. The same kind of law must be made to apply to nations as to individuals in a nation.".
At first sight that might seem to be a fair statement. As a member of the "Bahai World Faith" would say: "Christianity united man with God, and man with man, but not nation with nation. Bahai does that. 'Bahai teaches a higher kind of love, a love of humanity. We must take a supranational view and be willing to surrender our wills. God has created all men and they are his children. Equality is one of our basic tenets. Therefore, we must build a world brotherhood, a world government, a world language, a world culture. Such is the line of progress. The various religions, mind you, at their time, made their contribution – Moses, then Christ, then Mohammed, and then Bahai-la, in that order."1
Many more among us are Bahais that attend meetings of the "Bahai World Faith”, including lay and religious adherents of the Christian Churches. We can thank the Bahais for bringing the issue squarely into the open. Can you be a Bahai and at the same time a member of the Christian Church? The issue is sovereignty, freedom to manage your own affairs — individually, as a family, municipally, provincially, federally, internationally. Is sovereignty inherent in the Christian religion or not?
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Using a quotation which has by now become well konwn in the Social Credit Movement, if not famous:
"Inherent in Christianity is "a concept of Life — or more accurately a philosophy — which recognizes man as a spiritual being created for a Divine purpose which he should be free to pursue before Almighty God. This concept of Life — expressed most perfectly in the teachings of the Christian Gospels — confers upon the personality of every individual a sanctity which precludes the right of any other person sitting in judgment upon him or thwarting the free expression of his personality. (The implication of any individual attempting to dictate and order the life of another is that he is usurping an authority which belongs to Almighty God alone.) A society based upon such a concept must be a free association of individuals, each deriving the utmost benefit therefrom in terms of freedom to express and develop his personality. In other words, the organization of society must be subordinated to the objective of personal freedom, and from this basic consideration are derived the principles which should govern all social organization."
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Next the Moral Law, the Canon of Rightness as Douglas calls it — Authority. The thesis is that there is Truth, a universal and eternal Law, which underlies all things. In reality, individuals and society prosper by discovering and living in accordance with it. Its results are inevitable and automatic; it cannot be altered or "set-up". It definitely has nothing to do with "progress" in man-made organization. Apparently the Bahais, and the many Bahais who do not know they are Bahais, think it does.
If there is such a Canon, people and societies must be free to discover and apply it. A rush ahead into "organization", resting upon the conceit of men thinking they know what is best for other men, is diabolic.
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Along this line, something we read in "Vọice", June 18, 1955, is well worth quoting:
"God created each person different from another, as He created each flower different from another. You do not demonstrate or practise the love of God or your neighbour by trying to flout His law and bring them all into conformity. On the contrary (if you do) you are practising communism.
"I quite realize that in an imperfect world there have to be some laws which make for conformity. Such as for instance (traffic laws)... But it is most important that there should be a minimum of such laws. Fluoridation is in an entirely different category... The technique of socialism by gradualness is precisely in getting people to agree to abandon this principle in small ways and then in larger until eventually we get the Communist, Atheistical World-State — the final monopolistic tyranny, the rule of Anti-Christ.
"God created 'Johnnie' out of step, and also created a Moral Law to which he must conform; that is, within the bounds of that Moral Law he should be out of step. A perfect State is one whose laws are no more and no less than those which conform to the Moral Law. It is the business of the Church to know and to preach this Moral Law.
"Advocacy of World Government built on immoral foundations can only lead to almost inconceivable suffering and disaster."
– D. H.
1.) The objectives of the Bahais include: World Government, World Language, and World Culture. Christianity is fine, they teach, but a step lower in progressiveness than the Muslim religion, both of which are behind Bahai in evolution. In other words, Bahai is the religious aim of World Government and quite the contrary to the teachings of Christ. — Editor.