A letter regarding globalism...

Dear Deb,

I, too, have found the topic of globalism facinating - and for reasons similar to yours.

What strikes me as particularly odd though, is the utilitarian foundation that is being laid for contemporary globalism: "We should all play nice because it is in each of our best interests to do so." One need not be a sage of Mosaic rank to know that building a globalist future upon a "what's in it for me, baby" philosophy is as prudent as building the family home on the sand doons of a coastal town.

It seems to me that true globalism must be grounded in religion, and, if this is true, then we have only three options:

1. Atheistic Communism (or Statism)
2. Islam
3. Christianity

Note: I believe that Budhism is an insufficient foundation for a true globalism because it offers no coherent rationale for a unified vision of humanity. Hinduism fails as a framework for globalism because its habit-of-life regarding problem resolution is pragmatic (see its method of integrating polytheism and pantheism) and as essentially utilitarian as the current proposed bases for globalism. Judaism would be an insufficent ground for the globalists' ideals because of its tendency to nationalism.

It should not surprise that I reject the first option because it is fundamentally materialistic (in the philosophical sense), and therefore, would require that the human orientation toward worship be suppressed or subjugated to a contigent and finite entity, the global state.

I would contend that the supremacy of maleness within Islam and the radical singularity of its conception of the deity render it unsuitable as a foundation for globalism. The former is revealed both in its teachings regarding the value of woman vis-a-vis man in time, and in its teachings regarding their relations in the afterlife. The latter is revealed in Islam's constant confession regarding the deity, "Allah: The one and only God, creator and sustainer of the universe."

Since Allah knows nothing of the experience of personal relations within himself, Islam has no internal safeguards against the depersonalization of the faithful. This radical singularity is fundamental to Islam's understanding of the ground of all existence. If the deity is both utterly sufficient in itself and devoid of interior relations, then the human experience of interdependency and interrelationship is a weakness, and not a genuine and fundamental good as we intuit it to be.

I am convinced that if contemporary globalism were to adopt an Islamic cast, then globalism would become a powerful tool for the resubjugation of women. Eventually, as the practical implications its concept of the deity is worked out, this globalist world order would erode and eradicate the personalist cast that has developed within the Judeo-Christian West.

The following considerations lead me to adopt the view that Christianity is the only sufficient ground for a true and genuinely human globalism:

1. Christianity affirms that the human race is a single family, and, as such, grounds our inter-relations upon the obligations of kinship.

2. Christianity affirms that each human person is made to the image and likeness of God, and, as such, every man and every woman possesses an equal dignity and worth.

3. Christianity affirms that inter-relations is fundamental to the ground of all existence, that in the one and only Divine being, there eternally exists three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and, as such, serves as a guardian of those essentially human values: love, compassion, justice, and mercy, etc.

4. Christianity affirms that at the heart of the deity's mission toward the human race is an invitation to return to the Family Table, to come and dine with our one Father, and one Brother, in the Love made present by the one Spirit.

I am convinced that a genuine globalism requires Christianity. In fact, the desire for globalism is a vestige of the Christian culture that once served as the heart of Western Civilization. One might not unjustly note that the dialogical manner in which many seek to establish globalism is a without explanation were it not for the West's Judeo-Christian heritage.

Long live Jesus Christ, the First Globalist!