My CMS The View from a New City

In her stump speech, Kamala Harris makes the point that the strength of a leader is not “who you beat down” but “who you lift up.” Some are fixated on winning—on being the national champion, on dominating the market. This stems from a philosophy of survival of the fittest as promulgated by the anti-Christ, Friedrich Nietzsche and others. This may be ok for comic book characters and children’s games like football and basketball, but it is a terrible perversion of the real purpose of life which is learning and growing. We should rather be focused on helping God with his stated project of bringing to pass “the immortality and eternal life of man.” (Moses 1:39) The word man in this context means every person who is willing. We should be in the business of building up, not beating down.