Freedom Painting

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. Dr. Guinness also addressed the paradox of freedom: “The greatest enemy of freedom is freedom. It undermines itself, becoming permissiveness and license… All freedom requires restraint, yet the only restraint appropriate to freedom is self-restraint. Yet self-restraint is what freedom tends to undermine.” Dr. Guinness pointed out that the Founders understanding of freedom was much closer to the Jewish and Christian understanding of freedom that stresses both negative and positive freedom together, that is “freedom from…” and “freedom to…” He then noted, “Almost all American freedom today, conservative and liberal, is ‘freedom from…’ with no definition of what freedom is to be. The current form of American freedom is unsustainable.” He then went on to challenge the audience with how Christians should respond to this situation. In his challenge, he warned Christians to be careful about the talk of freedom without responsibility. “Freedom requires truth. It is not permission to do what you like, but the power to do what you ought.” Dr. Guinness wrapped up his remarks by challenging the idea of American exceptionalism, a cultural mindset that tends to think that America is unique in the world and somehow better than other nations. He asked, “Why do we think that in a thousand years’ time, the Lincoln memorial will not be what the Roman ruins are today?…Your framers, with all their blind spots…wrote a brilliant first chapter, and many generations have written good chapters since then. Today, the chapter being written is going to be the most critical of all. The present generation’s answer is unsustainable and will lead inevitably to decline, but there is the possibility of renewal.”

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:47.2 W x 70.9 H x 2 D in

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