The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai’s Revolutionary Religion and the Way forward for Freedom

In these stormy instances, loud voices from all fronts name for revolution and alter. However what sort of revolution brings true freedom to each society and the human soul?
Cultural observer Os Guinness explores the character of revolutionary religion, contrasting between secular revolutions such because the French Revolution and the faith-led revolution of historical Israel. He argues that the story of Exodus is the best, richest, and deepest imaginative and prescient for freedom in human historical past. It serves because the grasp story of human freedom and supplies the best sustained critique of the abuse of energy. His distinction between "Paris" and "Sinai" gives a framework for discerning between two sorts of revolution and their totally different views of human nature, equality, and liberty. Drawing on the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, Guinness develops Exodus because the Magna Carta of humanity, with a constructive imaginative and prescient of a morally accountable society of impartial free people who find themselves covenanted to one another and to justice, peace, stability, and the widespread good of the group. That is the mannequin from the previous that charts our path to the long run.
"There are two revolutionary faiths bidding to take the world ahead," Guinness writes. "There isn’t any alternative going through America and the West that’s extra pressing and consequential than the selection between Sinai and Paris. Will the approaching technology return to religion in God and to humility, or proceed to belief within the all sufficiency of Enlightenment purpose, punditry, and technocracy? Will its politics be led by rules or by energy?" Whereas Guinness can not predict our final destiny, he warns that we should acknowledge the disaster of our time and debate the problems overtly. As people and as a individuals, we should select between the revolutions, between religion in God and religion in Motive alone, between freedom and despotism, and between life and demise.