Political Ideology

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Political Science

The church is concerned with promoting spiritual realities while standing aloof from secular activities. Rapid social change requires the stabilizing overview of a far-flung cosmic perspective.

Political science must effect the reconstruction of economics and industry by the techniques it learns from the social sciences and by the insights and motives supplied by religious living. In all social reconstruction religion provides a stabilizing loyalty to a transcendent object, a steadying goal beyond and above the immediate and temporal objective. In the midst of the confusions of a rapidly changing environment mortal man needs the sustenance of a far-flung cosmic perspective.  ^{[Paper 99:7.2, page 1092:6]}

Religion sustains and motivates:

1. inspires courage
2. enhances joy of living
3. joins patience with passion
4. bonds insight to zeal
5. combines sympathy with power
6. imbues ideals with energy

 

Religion inspires man to live courageously and joyfully on the face of the earth; it joins patience with passion, insight to zeal, sympathy with power, and ideals with energy. ^{[Paper 99:7.3, page 1093:1]}

It’s the way to get a cosmic viewpoint, the part identifying with the whole.

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