Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
RATABLE
RATABLE NOT EQUAL IS NATURAL
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..."
Are all men really created equally? I say not. I say "equality" is illusory, unfair, and, at bottom, inequitable!
Equality is inequitable . Ratable is better. All things are not "created" equal, nor are all men equal. There are gargantuan things, large things, medium sized things, small things.
Each thing has its own niche. Thus, it is patently unfair to impute or to ascribe tax, duties, responsibilities, to one, better assigned to another.
"To whom much is given is much required," say the Gospels in Luke 12:36. Why, then, do many people proceed in defiance of the Word, of Scriptures, contrary to the precept, while claiming to be Christians?
Jesus says, he or she loves all the more in accordance with those who have given them or have forgiven them all the more . (Luke 7:36-50); there is a sliding scale, a ratable rationale and a ratable rationing!
So "equality" as set forth in the "Declaration of Independence" is dangerously illusory. Ratable is what is real, natural; what is right.
The unmasking of the allegorical metaphor of "equality," for such equality is, as both rhetorical and allegorical, is further extended by examining in the Old Testament.
Exodus 16: 16-18 says that when the children of Israel gathered with an "omer," some more, some less, according to their needs. They who gathered much had no excess, and those who gathered least, had no lack, being obedient to God's will.
https://www.google.com/…/%3fsearch=Exodus+16%253A16-18&vers…
Equality as a juridical concept is illusory, and confusing even in the same case, family, church , school, nation . Treat yourself and treat others fairly, equitably, ratably; no cheating, no lying, no conspiring to defy God, neither to defraud man!
I need no say that in mathematics, the numbers go on forever. Each one to its own niche in keeping with divine comity, negative to infinite!
Ratable means legally "pro rata," or proportionate. It is the "reasonable portion," for which the elders pray.