Justice, freedom and prosperity – fruits of biblical Christian beliefs about existence

This section is an extremely brief summary of a well referenced eBook called: “Justice, Freedom and Prosperity – good fruit that took 2,000 years to grow, but we’re poisoning the roots.”  (Click here to obtain your free copy).

The God-kind of love – unsentimental, selfless love and genuine care for others – is the guiding principle of Christian values.  That is why the Christian legal values embedded in English common law produced the world’s first love-based justice.

Until that happened, laws (except in ancient Israel) were mostly made by the powerful to protect their own interests.  Overcoming that tyranny took many centuries of gradual application of Christian legal values by common law judges.

As love-based justice was built it proved to be the only lasting foundation for freedom.  In previous civilisations that lacked love-based justice, freedom had simply allowed the strong to steal freedom from the weak.

Widespread freedom put forth its earliest shoots as Parliament gained ascendency over kings in 17^th century England.  Even so, love-based justice was still scarce and it had taken sixteen centuries of painful struggle.

As the common law’s love-based justice became more prevalent, the strong found it difficult to steal freedom from the weak.  Freedom began to flower.

17^th century freedom was limited and fragile.  Nevertheless, it allowed many to read printed English bibles.  An unparalleled crop of scientific geniuses emerged, all saying that the bible’s presentation of a highly ordered and intelligent Creator had inspired their investigations of His creation.

Among these geniuses were Sir Francis Bacon who formulated many of the principles of the scientific method, Johannes Kepler who framed laws of planetary motion, Galileo Galilei whose observations confirmed the heliocentric view of the solar system asserted by Copernicus and Kepler, William Harvey who described the circulation of blood, Edmund Halley the astronomer, Robert Hooke who discovered live cells in plants, Robert Boyle the father of modern Chemistry and most distinguished scientist of all time, Sir Isaac Newton.

The ideas of these intellectual giants fuelled England’s 18^th century revolutions in agriculture, medicine, industry and transport.  That laid the foundations of today’s western prosperity.

As with freedom however, prosperity would have been stillborn had it not been for England’s foundation of love-based justice.  It was a major barrier to corruption.  Renowned Peruvian economist, Hernando de Soto has shown that the primary cause of national poverty is corruption in a nation’s legal system.[1]

The lesson is simple.  It we want justice, freedom and prosperity to continue, our laws must be based on Christ’s love-based values.  It is noteworthy that legal systems based on Christian values show no favouritism to Christians and make no attempt to coerce people to accept Christianity.

Justice, freedom and prosperity – being subverted by rationalistic UN “treaties”

If, however, we continue adopting UN ‘treaties’ that poison our laws with the values of Godless rationalism, we will lose the justice, freedom and prosperity so highly valued by Christians and non-Christians alike.

The value that non-Christians place on our justice, freedom and prosperity is obvious.  Overwhelmingly, immigrants of every race and creed choose to live in common law countries.  Yet we fail to teach them and our own children that justice freedom and prosperity depend on Christian legal values.

56% of the regimes that get a vote in the UN refuse to allow their own citizens to vote in free and fair elections.  Common law countries do not need advice on how to govern, or on ‘human rights’ from a UN dominated by dictators and rationalist academics.