Update from previous post.

My Christian and conservative belief system is centered in these subjects:

1. Theology: - Monotheism, and the Trinity of God.
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2. Religion: - Christianity, the Nicene Creed, and Thomism.
---Belief in God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and The Bible (KJV).

3. Philosophy: - Dualism, or reality is composed of two different substances.
--- Aristotelian tenets prove very satisfactory to me.
--- Thomism is the natural follow up to Aristotle.
---Unity of Virtues, Integrity Sums Up All Virtues.

4. Ethics: - Agape, or Love of God and love of Neighbor.

5. Biology: - Biogenesis, or special creation where the first cells contain maximum information to create all living things
--- The Neo Darwinian Theory of Evolution is being significantly downgraded in recent years.
--- It is Probable that Extraterrestrials Exist.

6. Psychology: - Man has mind, body and soul.

7. Sociology: - Sovereignty of each area of life: society, church and state.

8. Law: - Natural Law, or the belief that laws are rules based on an internal code of morality possessed by all people.
--- Follow the Rule of Law; Law and Order is the American Way.
--- The Constitution is the Law of the Land.
--- Natural Law and its Derivatives Should be Fully Recognized.

9. Politics: - Conservatism, that preserves the good in society and minimizes the bad.
--- Fiscal, Social and Political Conservatism.
--- Good and not evil is our cornerstone.

10 Economics: - Free markets, but with restraints that level the playing field and protect against unlawful actions.
--- Fair Trade Policies
--- Emphasize Businesses Large and Small

11. History: - Use of history as a predictor of the proper lessons to draw in order to guide future situations.
--- History of Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Natural Duties from early times is important.

12. Education: - The necessity to teach the young (and older!) what is needed to have success in life, an orderly society. and a peaceful world.
--- Teach them how to Think and Analyze for Themselves
--- Freedom and Liberty are Our Legacy and Must be Our Destiny.
--- Many Students are Not College Material: Vocational Training is a viable alternative.
--- Education is a State Responsibility, not a Federal Responsibility.

13. Health: - We must have affordable healthcare, perhaps in several layers, one for the well-to-do and one for lesser mortals, and even another level for the less fortunate in the nation.

14. Defense: - Creating, maintaining and improving military capabilities to defend our nation and to join with other nations to thwart aggression.
--- The American Republic Must be Defended.
--- Peace Through Overwhelming Military Strength.
--- Maintain the Capability of the Military-Industrial Complex to research, design, develop, test, produce and support military systems in the event of war.
--- Avoid the usual cry to reduce military spending based upon the idea of a “peace dividend”. It doesn’t happen.
--- Maintain and Improve Nuclear and Other War Capabilities.
--- Avoidance of Technological Surprise.
--- Always go for the win.
--- Our military job is not nation-building, but thwarting aggression, and defending the US.

15. Science: - Use of the many methods of scientific investigation to discover the in-depth physical nature of our world and the rest of the universe to the greatest extent possible.
--- Biogenesis not Abiogenesis.
--- The First Cell Had Enormous Information Content---Where From?
--- Big Bang Cosmology, 14.7 billion Years Ago.
--- The Multiverse is an Unobservable Pseudo-Science.
--- Earth is 4.5 billion Years Old.
--- Investigate Climate Changes; AGW is Not Settled Science.
--- Discovered so far are over 4,000 "Goldilocks" Milky Way planets.
--- The next big breakthrough will be Fusion Power.

16. Engineering: - building useful, functional aggregates of technology to serve mankind. Exploiting scientific discoveries to benefit mankind.

17. Technology: - Fundamental elements drawn from scientific discoveries that can be employed to build useful functional structures via engineering.

18. Architecture: - The master plan for engineering a complex functional structure. System Engineering is a quite similar effort.

19. Energy: - Exploit all sources to power our industry, military, cities and homes.

20. Water: - Essential to ensure adequate and pure sources.
--- Cleanup of lakes, rivers, and streams.
--- Cleanup of Oceans.

21. The Air: - Air purity is also essential.
--- Pressure China and India to reduce air pollution.

22. The Land: - One thing we do have is a lot of land.
--- Conservation of forests and National Parks.
--- Cleanup pollution.

23. Intelligent Design: - A scientific effort to discover true design in nature as opposed to undirected evolution.

24. Automation: - Potentially, a major part of our workforce will be replaced by automatons.

25. Artificial Intelligence: - A scientific and engineering discipline whose objective is to build, test and employ systems having some characteristics of human intelligence.
--- Self-driving vehicles are the bell-weather of this effort.

26, Government: -

--- Reform Congress: passing term limits, reducing time spent in raising money, getting rid of radical elements, making it more responsive to citizen needs and ideas, and less responsive to fringe elements.
--- Champion the idea that legislation simply for the sake of doing some legislation must be stopped.
--- Believe in American Can-Do Spirit, Treasure Our Patriots.
--- Reject Collectivist and Utopian Ideas.
--- Freedom and Liberty are Our Legacy and Must be Our Destiny.
--- Refuse Entry of Islamic Jihadists Into the US.
--- Continue the Global War on Terror (GWOT or GWOIT).
--- Support American Customs,
--- Traditions, and Institutions.
--- Majority Rule with Minority Rights.
--- Support State's Rights and Sovereignty.
--- National Sovereignty Must be Inviolate.
--- Deemphasize the UN and Pay Less.
--- We Must Fix Our Infrastructure.
--- Make Prudent and Beneficial Changes to Policies and Procedures.
--- Repeal Regulations That are not Effective Overall.
--- Promote Science and Engineering.
--- Guard Against a Deep State Arising: or Destroy the Existing DS.
--- Manage the National Debt Effectively.
--- Manage the Yearly Debit Prudently: The Goal: A Balanced Budget.
--- Reject All Attempts to Establish a Global Government.
--- Promote a National Service Corps for Ages 18-25.
--- Maintain an Aggressive Space Program.
--- NATO Members Must Pay Their Fair Share.
--- Support a Flat Tax and no Other Taxes at All.
--- Reject Government Unions.
--- Physical Security of Schools Must be Enhanced.
--- Cyber Security Must be Enhanced.
--- Trump will Make America Great Again (MAGA)!
--- Support the 2nd Amendment: Guns Don't Kill; People Kill.
--- US Auto Production May Become Mainly Truck-Based.
--- Continue the War on Drugs.
--- Work on Problem State Policies: Russia, China, Iran, Korea, and others as they aruse.
--- Work on Israeli and Mid East Policy.
--- Work on Friendly Nations Policies.
--- Work on Other Key Nations Policies.
--- Work on Developing Nations Policies.
--- Keep LGBTQ in Check.
--- Give Public Employees a Fair Livelihood.
--- Promote Alliances with Other Democracies.
--- Conserve the Environment.
--- Media, Sports and Entertainment Bias Needs Correction.
--- Pass a Comprehensive Immigration Law.
--- Counter Silly Elitists and Elitist Ideas Forcefully.
--- Subsidiarity: Make Decisions at the Lowest Level Possible: local, county, state before national.
--- Believe in Just War and Just Death Penalty.
--- Minority Groups or Individuals Should Not Have Special Privileges.
--- Build Strong Police Forces, Well-Trained and Well-Led, with Approved Policies.

27. Personal Conduct: -
--- worship.
--- Pray.
--- Maintain Integrity (All Values & Virtues).
--- Tell the Truth.
--- Humility.
--- Focus.
--- Practice the Golden Rule.
--- Strong Christian Work Ethic.
--- Do Good Works.
--- Be a Good Citizen.
--- Serve When Needed.

It is a really nice list and I agree with most of it. The first thing that jumped out at me, in disagreement, was 12, the last comment. I believe that education of a child is the responsibility of the Parent. It is a parental right and duty, with some guidance and rules from the state, that make sure the child is educated in real fundamentals in an ongoing process until the age of 18 or finishing high school. From then on, it is your own responsibility, with parental financial support or your own financial support. But your own personal endeavores in the course of your choosing. After your education, you and you alone are responsible for your debts and the possibility of meaningful employment to accomplish that.

A little long winded, but you get the idea. Great overall list right to the end on most points.

HNY
FJB LGB
Logically Right

This paper was published here earlier under a somewhat different name, which has somehow been deleted along with several hundred other posts of mine. I wanted this one to survive.
(This post is a follow up to a discussion with Tom of Coos Bay, Oregon earlier.)

After outlining my worldview and writing well over 300 pages on the subject matter, it occurred to me that I could convey much of the same set of ideas using a set of short phrases drawn from the effort.
While it turned out to be quite a number of phrases, not a simple few, I believe these phrases do the job. Most of the phrases are mere introductions to quite complex subjects that ordinarily would take extensive development to do them justice. When drilling down into the subjects, I try to maintain the Christian and conservative viewpoint at each level, and seldom if ever deviate into more radical thinking.

Each of the items here have common characteristics, such as the drilling down required to understand them more fully; the fact that they interact with each other at a number of levels, they are evolving at various rates, and thus they are forever incomplete in some sense. At times a given item may experience a significant breakthrough or even a degradation as circumstances force the issue. It is obvious that all subjects have not been covered here, but hopefully the more important ones are included.

The basic structure of this Worldview follows that of Myers and Noebel, with additions supplied where appropriate. The structure is as follows:

Theology
Religion
Philosophy
Ethics
Biology
Psychology
Sociology
Economics
History
Education
Health
Defense
Science
Engineering
Technology
Architecture
Energy
Water
Air
Land
Intelligent Design
Automation
Artificial Intelligence
Agriculture
Government
Personal Conduct

My Christian and conservative belief is centered in these subjects:

1. Theology: - Monotheism, and the Trinity of God.
.
2. Religion: - Christianity, the Nicene Creed, and Thomism.
---Belief in God, Jesus, The Holy Spirit, and The Bible (KJV).

3. Philosophy: - Dualism, or reality is composed of two different substances.
---Unity of Virtues, Integrity Sums Up All Virtues.

4. Ethics: - Agape, or Love of God and love of Neighbor.

5. Biology: - Biogenesis, or special creation where the first cells contain maximum information to create all living things
--- The Neo Darwinian Theory of Evolution is being significantly downgraded in recent years.
--- It is Probable that Extraterrestrials Exist.

6. Psychology: - Man has mind, body and soul.

7. Sociology: - Sovereignty of each area of life: society, church and state.

8. Law: - Natural Law, or the belief that laws are rules based on an internal code of morality possessed by all people.
--- Follow the Rule of Law; Law and Order is the American Way
--- The Constitution is the Law of the Land.
--- Natural Law and its Derivatives Should be Fully Recognized.

9. Politics: - Conservatism, that preserves the good in society and minimizes the bad.
--- Fiscal, Social and Political Conservatism.

10 Economics: - Free markets, but with restraints that level the playing field and protect against unlawful actions.
--- Fair Trade Policies
--- Emphasize Businesses Large and Small

11. History: - Use of history as a predictor of the proper lessons to draw in order to guide future situations.
--- History of Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Natural Duties from early times is important.

12. Education: - The necessity to teach the young (and older!) what is needed to have success in life, an orderly society. and a peaceful world.
--- Teach how to Think and Analyze for Themselves
--- Freedom and Liberty are Our Legacy and Must be Our Destiny.
--- Many Students are Not College Material: Vocational Training.
--- Education is a State Responsibility, not a Federal Responsibility.

13. Health: - We must have affordable healthcare, perhaps in several layers, one for the well-to-do and one for lesser mortals, and even another level for the less fortunate in the nation.

14. Defense: - Creating, maintaining and improving military capabilities to defend our nation and to join with other nations to thwart aggression.
--- The American Republic Must be Defended.
--- Peace Through Overwhelming Military Strength.
--- Maintain the Capability of the Military-Industrial Complex.
--- Maintain and Improve Nuclear and Other War Capabilities.
--- Avoidance of Technological Surprise

15. Science: - Use of the many methods of scientific investigation to discover the in-depth physical nature of our world and the rest of the universe to the greatest extent possible.
--- Biogenesis not Abiogenesis.
--- The First Cell Had Enormous Information Content---Where From?
--- Big Bang Cosmology, 14.7 billion Years Ago.
--- The Multiverse is an Unobservable Pseudo-Science.
--- Earth is 4.5 billion Years Old.
--- Investigate Climate Changes; AGW is Not Settled Science.
--- Discovered so far are over 4,000 "Goldilocks" Milky Way planets

16. Engineering: - building useful, functional aggregates of technology to serve mankind. Exploiting scientific discoveries to benefit mankind.

17. Technology: - Fundamental elements drawn from scientific discoveries that can be employed to build useful functional structures via engineering.

18. Architecture: - The master plan for engineering a complex functional structure.

19. Energy: - Exploit all sources to power our industry, military, cities and homes.

20. Water: - Essential to ensure adequate and pure sources.
--- Cleanup of lakes, rivers, and streams
--- Cleanup of Oceans


21. Air: - Air purity is also essential.
--- Pressure China and India to reduce air pollution

22. Land: - One thing we do have is a lot of land.
--- Conservation of forests and National Parks
--- Cleanup pollution


23. Intelligent Design: - A scientific effort to discover true design in nature as opposed to undirected evolution,

24. Automation: - Potentially, a major part of our workforce will be replaced by automatons.

25. Artificial Intelligence: - A scientific and engineering discipline whose objective is to build, test and employ systems having some characteristics of human intelligence.

26, Government: -

--- Believe in American Can-Do Spirit, Treasure Our Patriots.
--- Reject Collectivist and Utopian Ideas.
--- Freedom and Liberty are Our Legacy and Must be Our Destiny.
--- Refuse Entry of Islamic Jihadists Into the US.
--- Continue the Global War on Terror (GWOT or GWOIT).
--- Support American Customs,
--- Traditions, and Institutions.
--- Majority Rule with Minority Rights.
--- Support State's Rights and Sovereignty.
--- National Sovereignty Must be Inviolate.
--- Deemphasize the UN and Pay Less.
--- We Must Fix Our Infrastructure.
--- Make Prudent and Beneficial Changes to Policies and Procedures.
--- Repeal Regulations That are not Effective Overall.
--- Promote Science and Engineering.
--- Guard Against a Deep State Arising: or Destroy the Existing DS.
--- Manage the National Debt Effectively.
--- Manage the Yearly Debit Prudently: The Goal: A Balanced Budget.
--- Reject All Attempts to Establish a Global Government.
--- Promote a National Service Corps for Ages 18-25.
--- Maintain an Aggressive Space Program.
--- NATO Members Must Pay Their Fair Share.
--- Support a Flat Tax and no Other Taxes at All.
--- Reject Government Unions.
--- Physical Security of Schools Must be Enhanced.
--- Cyber Security Must be Enhanced.
--- Trump will Make America Great Again (MAGA)!
--- Support the 2nd Amendment: Guns Don't Kill; People Kill.
--- US Auto Production May Become Mainly Truck-Based.
--- Continue the War on Drugs.
--- Work on Problem State Policies: Russia, China, Iran, Korea.
--- Work on Israeli and Mid East Policy.
--- Work on Friendly Nations Policies.
--- Work on Other Key Nations Policies.
--- Work on Developing Nations Policies.
--- Keep LGBTQ in Check.
--- Give Public Employees a Fair Livelihood.
--- Promote Alliances with Other Democracies.
--- Conserve the Environment.
--- Media, Sports and Entertainment Bias Needs Correction.
--- Pass a Comprehensive Immigration Law.
--- Counter Silly Elitists and Elitist Ideas Forcefully.
--- Subsidiarity: Make Decisions at the Lowest Level Possible.
--- Believe in Just War and Just Death Penalty.
--- Minority Groups or Individuals Should Not Have Special Privileges.
--- Build Strong Police Forces, Well-Trained and Well-Led, with Approved Policies

27. Personal Conduct: -
--- worship.
--- Pray.
--- Maintain Integrity (All Values & Virtues).
--- Tell the Truth.
--- Humility.
--- Focus.
--- Practice the Golden Rule.
--- Strong Christian Work Ethic.


Bibliography (The first 22 of over 200)

1 The King James Bible
2. Understanding Our Times, by Jeff Myers and David Noebel
3. How Now Shall We Live, Charles Colson and Nancy Pearsey
4. What We Can't Not Know, by J, Budziszewski
5. Mind Siege, by Tim LaHaye and David Noebel
6. The Complete C.S. Lewis, a Signature Classic
7. Written on the Heart, by J. Budziszewski
8. The 5000 Year Leap, by W. Cleon Skousen
9. The Big Questions, by Nils Ch. Rauhut
10. Natural Law and Human Nature, by Father J. Koterski, S.J.
11. Intellectuals and Society, by Thomas Sowell
12. The World is Curved by David M. Smick
13. Signature in the Cell, by Stephen C. Meyer
14. The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene
15. The Liberal Mind, by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr. M.D
16. Darwin's Doubt, by Stephen C. Meyer
17. The Conservative Mind, by Russell Kirk
18. The Liberty Amendments, by Mark R. Levin
19. The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia, Brad Minor, Editor
20. The World Order, by Henry Kissinger
21. The Snapping of the American Mind, by David Kupelian
22. The Bionic Message, by Walter J. ReMine

Hmmm! Interesting take! What one-track do you perceive? The tracks I have intended were several:
1. To publish my Belief system and revise it to elicit general comment and point out problems.
2, To promote Christianity.
3. To promote Conservatism
4. To Promote Changes or Policies I think are beneficial.
5. To post Criticisms from my perspective.
6. To establish a framework for consistency of my positions.

Then, too, this venture into the Worldview business is far, far from the only "track" I post on here, but I believe it helps me be relatively consistent over time.

Yes, I have posted this Worldview system several times, each time with some major changes for comment, but the posts are quite separated in time and in some content. I look at it as a framework to hang my opinions onto as new situations arise, which they do quite often--a sort of rolling position summary in full context, once in a while.
Another thing is that not all OPP readers have read my past posts, so this gives them the chance to critique me.

I am puzzled! Please clarify!