Educational Research Analysts  June 2009 Newsletter 
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Jesus Christ is Lord.
What difference does it make?
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CHRISTOCENTRISM  
A Beka's and BJUP's Economics texts
never trace socialism's failure to its
anti-trinitarian non-Christo­centrism
which rejects the Incarnation.
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Here is more proof of the superiority both
of Christocentrism over mere theism, and of
graphic design-type matrices to profile it.
       
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        SOCIALISM
TRINITARIANISM
ACCEPTS CHRIST'S DEITY		 UNITARIANISM
REJECTS CHRIST'S DEITY.
Christ's deity means a plurality of equals
shares sovereignty in one Triunity, so that
neither the individual nor the group is
subordinate at the divine or human level.

   Christ's non-deity means God is a
single Person, making unity the divine
ideal and the collective state supreme
over individual citizens among men.

CHRIST'S DEITY IMPLIES
MAN'S DEPRAVITY.		 CHRIST'S NON-DEITY IMPLIES
MAN'S GOODNESS.
Man needs a divine Savior,
cannot self-redeem.		   Man needs no divine Savior,
can self-redeem.
Trinitarian shared sovereignty in human
government (federalism, separation
of powers) restrains man's depravity.		   Good or perfectible human nature needs
no restraint through shared sovereignty
(no federalism, no separation of powers).
Selfish man must work since his
fall into sin, but will voluntarily
labor only with profit incentives.
   Unselfish man fell not into
sin and will voluntarily work
without profit incentives.
The Laffer Curve is right.
Tax rates do change
selfish man's behavior.

   The Laffer Curve is wrong.
Tax rates do not change
unselfish man's behavior.

PRIVATE PROPERTY
CHECKS MAN'S DEPRAVITY.		 PRIVATE PROPERTY
VOIDS MAN'S GOODNESS.
Desire for private property drives selfish
profit-seekers to efficiently produce
goods and services for society's needs.		   Private property asserts
individuality against unity,
engendering selfishness.
Private property rights
share sovereignty among
individuals (trinitarianism)
and deny it to rulers.

   Control of property does not corrupt
rulers because they administer the state,
the functional sovereign deity among
men and analog of the unitarian God.

MONEY IS A FORM
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.		 MONEY IS A TOOL
TO REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH.
The gold standard respects
divine sovereignty.		   Paper money reflects
human sovereignty.
God defines monetary value through
free-market supply of and demand
for gold which no man controls.		   The state alters monetary value
by influencing its supply through
price controls on interest rates.
Government cannot inflate
to finance a welfare state.

   Government debases the currency
to cover welfare-state deficits.

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