2:45 I begin to speak on Secular Koranism.
3:00 Minorities and the host population
4:00 The national interest
5:00 Defining the national interest
The populace of a matriarchy would be somewhat different to that of a patriarchy in behaviour and beliefs.
6:00 40% illegitimacy in the US
7:00 The benefits of monogamy
8:00 Liberalism is synonymous with liberation from the rules of marriage and good parenting.
9:00 Moral systems can include religions which support marriage and family values ie patriarchy and secular political ideologies which are noticeably less strict about enforcing standards of sexual morality ie matriarchy.
10:00 Jews and Muslims believe in the oneness of God while Christians believe in the threeness of God.
11:00 Christianity is the odd one out of the Abrahamic faiths.
Jews were made God's Chosen People to properly teach the Noahide laws to gentiles.
12:00 Nothing in the Koran offends against the Noahide laws.
The first five Noahide laws that would most probably be universally accepted:
- The prohibition against murder
- The prohibition against theft
- The prohibition against sexual immorality
- The prohibition against eating an animal while it is still alive
- The positive commandment to establish a court and legal system
- The prohibition against idolatry
- The prohibition against blasphemy
13:00 Hinduism is only idolatry, but Christianity is both idolatry and blasphemy.
14:00 Shituf (associating partners with God) is worse than avodah zarah (idolatry).
Ranking the four gentile religions according to their conformity with the Noahide laws
15:00 Asher: "Quite a presentation!"
18:00 The tolerance of polytheism v the intolerance of monotheism
19:00 quran.com/2/256
20:00 How would Secular Koranism work with the civil law?
Confucianism
22:00 quran.com/24/2
24:00 Marriage substitutes
25:00 Difference between married couples and unmarried couples
26:00 Retrospective legislation and ex post facto law
27:00 Reception of Secular Koranism by Muslims
28:00 Secular Koranism would fit into the legal traditions of whatever country that adopted it.
29:00 In a matriarchy, all men are lower in status than the unmarried mother.
30:00 George Washington's farewell speech
All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels, and modified by mutual interests.However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard, by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that, for the efficient management of our common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
31:00 Factionalism should be fluid.
33:00 Trump
34:00 The average American dislikes the liberal political establishment in America.
35:00 Asher defends the Biden Administration but Lowell disagrees.
39:00 Lowell's August 2021 prediction.
42:00 New York Times
43:00 Jewish conspiracy theories
44:00 Religious Muslims relating to Secular Koranism
45:00 Reforming Islam by adopting it
47:00 The alt-right
Secular Koranism is the middle way.
48:00 Education for women
50:00 The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
54:00 The Koran is the best available guide to humanity.
55:00 36 capital offences in the Torah
56:00 The Koran hardly ever mentions the death penalty.
Old Testament punishments
57:00 Judaic methods of execution: death by fire, death by stoning, death by strangulation and death by beheading, which is the kindest way.
1:00:00 Proportionality and idolatry
1:03:00 Salem Witch Trials
1:05:00 Lowell is writing a book on the Koran.
1:06:00 Roman empire
1:07:00 Infatuation
1:10:00 The option of mercy is already in https://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=5&verse=39
1:11:00 Three strikes and you're out.
1:16:00 Lowell's book
1:17:00 quran.com/17/104
1:23:00 The emperor has no clothes.
1:25:00 My unique idea
1:26:00 The Trinity
1:27:00 Idolatry
1:28:00 The Fourth Estate
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