Gemini

Former FED Chairman Alan Greenspan has now had to admit that, though necessary to a good society, a free market is not sufficient to create or maintain a good society. While Karl Marx's Communism rejects a free market as criminal, Ayn Rand's Objectivism raises it to the level of the sacred. Both are wrong. Both are incomplete. Both fail to see the central- and-constant purpose of human life as such.

In the book of Genesis, the story of human origins shows a three-faceted purpose, or motive, for human life. The first facet is socio-sexual companionship---otherwise called the family---which is the single most basic human social unit, or core of any wider society. Without the family, there can be no wider society, because all other social relationships literally are born of the family. The family is a reflection of God's own wish to have a personal---and continuous, and intimate---relationship with us.

The second facet of human life is physical nourishment. This is a reflection of our need for spiritual nourishment (man shall not live by physical nourishment alone, but by every word of God, Luke 4:4), and is set in the context of family and fellowship.

The third facet of life is to multiply the family. "Be fruitful and multiply' does not mean simply making babies. Nor does it mean just raising children to nominal adulthood. It means to maintain the socio-cultural continuity of a good society, specifically by way of reproducing the basic human social unit. In short, a good society, or at least a good Christianity, seeks the betterment of every human life in terms of the purpose of human life.

Like God Himself, the real glory of any Earthly king is not in his personal wealth and power, nor in his cities and its palaces, nor even in the immediate wealth and worldy wisdom of his people. Rather, the true glory of a king is in the blessedness of his people, in their true wisdom and true prosperity, and in their physical, spiritual, and social wealth. There is a very righteous reason why the twin towers of the World Trade Center fell, and all the people in it perished: the holy angels whose job it was to protect those towers found far more worthy uses for their labors. God will be glorified. And, no clever thoughts of fallen humans, whether coming from a free people, or from a people like that of the caste system in India, shall ever share in that glory.

The blind bloodhound of a self-intoxicated secularism, and the 'Christian charity' which it has infected, is incapable of ever admitting the possibility that the raccoon which it has howlingly cornered up a tree by scent trail has in fact leapt through the forest canopy and come down to sit mockingly behind him just inside the clearing.