Social bonds

There are many types of social bonds and many ways of recreate our social bonds. The social bonds of Jesus include The Way of Christ which produces the social capital which is the treasure of the Kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God which is at hand operates according to the perfect law of liberty spoken of in the Gospel of the kingdom.
"The love and respect of your neighbors must be gained by a long series of small services, hidden deeds of goodness, a persistent habit of kindness, and an established reputation of selflessness" (Alexis de Tocqueville 1840, 593).
The American people have robbed themself of the essential "social bonds" of a free society by indulging in the "covetous practices" of social welfare state of modern democracies.

Call to recreate Social bonds

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"We’re sick as a society and we have to heal ourselves. And one of the things we have to do is come together. We have to recreate our social bonds; we have to buy into integrity, the importance of human dignity, and the importance of community. That’s how we get out of this.”

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Righteous Social bonds

Righteous Social bonds is what has held free societies together throughout history and when those bonds of society become unrighteous by taking away the free choices of the people those societies began to degenerate and will eventually collapse or become tyrannical and destructive to others and also themselves.

The removal of choices begins not with a central ruler but with your neighbor. Eventually the masses because of their appetite and wantonness were willing to take choices from their neighbor their eyes are darkened when they deny the truth of their intrinsic selfishness. The moral character of the people declines as they become accustomed to take from their neighbor by force and social virtues become so debilitated amongst the people.

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"Freedom is the Right to Choose, the Right to create for oneself the alternatives of Choice. Without the possibility of Choice, and the exercise of Choice, a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”

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Christ was talking about those social bonds that are established in society when people interact with each other through voluntarism equated with faith, hope, and charity in the process called seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness. All the reference to forgiveness and love, sacrifice and charity spoken of in parables to the people are the keys to the kingdom and Liberty under God.

Jesus explained all this to those he called out to be his disciples and even commanded them to make the people organize themselves in groups of tens in order to establish those social bonds which He counted as righteousness.

While the early Church practiced pure Religion the modern Churches seems to have failed to do so but instead sought what used to be called public religion.

Americans lost the means of maintaining the social bonds required to create and maintain a free society decades ago. Until they have the humility to examine their own altered practices and become more willing to see what they have been doing wrong and repent things will not get better, but far worse.

People of the world have sent those who congregate under the new doctrines to the men to men who exercise authority one over the other for their daily bread through the practice of that public religion and legal charity which makes the word of God to none effect like the Corban of the Pharisees which Christ condemned.

We need to realize the importance of cultivating the righteous bonds of a free society and the degeneration of the character of people if we bind society through fealty and force. If we are to allow our minds to be changed we must honestly address the fundamental questions of what is good and bad social bonds.

What works and what does not work to produce liberty and why?

Coming to terms

Social bonding is the manner and degree to which an individual is integrated into society and connected to the functional elements and institutions of society.

Social bonds existed since ancient times and in every culture. Social bonds are social relationships which accumulate as "social capital" to strengthen and enrich societies.

The meaning of Social capital is dependent upon the values held by individuals and the means by which social networks are established. Societies may bond through varying processes and combinations of cultural interaction based on similar social virtues or vices. Social virtue is said to be " morally good behavior or character" of individuals which produce "the good result" in society which is needed to sustain healthy individuals from "generation to generation".

The "Social Bond Theory" is also known as "social control theory". Seeing social bonds as a product of relations within society was being theorized based on the assumption that individuals are inherently self-interested and therefore assumes that some people will refrain from activities that harm others (criminal) within society for fear of injuring or losing those relationships within society.

Before we continue there is another term we should mention and that is "Social exclusion". Social exclusion was defined in France in 1974 as a rupture of social bonds. But Social exclusion will be experienced in "the lack or denial of resources, rights, goods and services, and the inability to participate in the normal relationships and activities, available to the majority of people in a society, whether in economic, social, cultural or political arenas."

We already see this in social credit scores controlled by central governments like China but also in Europe. Many things will produce a bad score and create Social exclusion. This is where the Mark of the Beast will develop its sting for those who have not already taken it.

Social exclusion will include the inability to obtain food and services when there are any type of shortage. Anyone not having the proper numbers, identification or vaccine passport will be excluded from the market place, jobs, banking, or even the grocery stores.

Criminalizing self

Mankind were endowed by God with the right to choose and the power to choose is what makes a man a man. Individuals are endowed by their creator with rights, the collective endows its members with privileges. Privileges can be taken away by the collective. The endowed rights of God can only be taken away by God. Individualism is often considered the enemy of Collectivism, at least by the collective.

The approach of condemning "self-interest" made all people guilty of a social sin against society until they proved their innocence. The truth is "self-interest" is a primary value not a weakness. Without it their is no endeavor, no pillar upon which goals of virtue and enterprise may stand. More important, without the presence of "self-interest" their can be no tempering of the soul with compassion and mercy. Without "self-interest" and the love of self there can be no loving your neighbor as yourself.

By the 1960, if not long before, the idea of controlling society was a lot more appealing to some than to setting society free. The "self-interest" of the individual was not a sin against society but a sin against the collective.

American society had been moving quickly toward socialism where the the individuals property and personal means of production were more and more in the control of government. In socialism eventually the people become so weak and degenerated the more aggressive creatures with greater appetites seize control from a degenerating population and like in the Paradise policies of John Calhoun or the collective Masses of Polybius society collapses in chaos.

The primary unit for leveraging most social bonds within society. The sexual revolution centered in the 1960 drove a dagger in the heart of the family. there was already the plague amongst society spread by the apostasy of the modern Church and false religion which had crept into society which literally returned the people to the Bondage of Egypt.

The pervasive practices of uncommitted sexual relationships are known to precipitate low self-esteem, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, divorce, and single parent families. It was a major contributing factor to the fall of Rome.

Without the family social capital articulation of social bonds and the transmission of values to the next generation declines and with that a decline in overall Social capital.

Social capital theory contends that social relationships are resources that can lead to the development and accumulation of human capital.The term social capital can only be defined as any reproductive long term benefit of a social relationship which enhances the fruitfulness and health of society.

Gibbon knew that Romans under the Antoninian emperors were forced to console themselves with “image of liberty” and free bread of the Roman welfare State. He also knew that the once great republic had devolved into "an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed."

The Caesars like FDR and his New Deal or LBJ and his War on Poverty along with other programs, presidents and politicians knew that great swelling words of liberty from the responsibilities of humility and service, and "pure Religion" which builds the social bonds and capital of a free people.

"Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom."

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this is a Writing in progress. We will show that the early church re established those social bonds Dr Malone is speaking about. Hope to have it done by showtime on keys of the kingdom broadcast Saturday.

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