A member sent this to me. “This is a time when the USA needs to be striving for unity, not divisiveness.”
Biden has called for unity. What are we to unify around, and why?
Biden can't explain or identify a realistic unity. All he can do is express a sentiment. Once he tries to explain what he means, all hopes of unity are gone. This is repetitive political rhetoric. The best politicians accomplish is compromise - both willing and unwilling - but political unity is a farce. One party overrides another, by whatever means it chooses to use.
What is the unity to be created in a nation that bases its existence in part on freedom of religion? When have religions ever been unified? They will never be unified.
The so-called "Golden Rule" from the Bible is explained as being the Tanakh - the Old Covenant Scriptures. So this is the Judeo-Christian standard for the saying. Modifications or similarities in other religions or philosophies have a different standard and explanation for the saying, so no true unity in this saying.
When have people who determine their own ethics and values, or legislate their concepts of the same, ever created unity? They haven't and they won't.
It's been stated in this thread that we need a war to unify us. Maybe an earlier war unified the US to a large degree, but the more recent wars certainly didn't.
It's been stated in this thread that Christianity had unity issues already in Acts. Very true. The divide is up to 30k-50k denominations now from estimates I've seen. We can read through the theological discussions in this forum and see the "unity" in "Christians." No unity here. We might find some, but maybe only in specific discussion points.
My answer to the question: Good question. I've no answer that I think has a hope of unified agreement. All we've been doing is trying to get along in some semblance of peace. Biblically I recall the reality of some widespread theoretical unity as being in truth a peace where there is no peace.
If someone has the answer I'm open to considering (like the philosophies seekers). But I'm not seeing answers. And the philosophies seekers are really just seeking answers like the rest of us. Even in Christ we're still seeking more & more of the Truth and none I know of here (in time) have the answers that I think will work to unify.
As a Christian I think the only possible unity is out in front of us somewhere per this statement:
NKJ 2 Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth
in which righteousness dwells.
This is unity in righteousness. Unity based in absolute standard. The Biblical Golden Rule in operation.
Until then there's just too much lawlessness, too much of it posing as and even falsely thinking it's good. Until then there's just one political theory after another, and one US administration after another - 2-4 years of this - 2-4 years of that... It's all just wearying.