THE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY (PLUS 10 CORE PRINCIPLES OF LASTING DEMOCRACY)
AND
THE COMMON CREED OF CHRISTIANITY: REINTRODUCING CHRISTIANITY TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION BUILT ON IT “SO THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE”
“William Baptiste’s work is crucial.”
— Dr. Andrew Bennett,
Senior Fellow, Religious Freedom Institute (Washington, DC);
Director, Cardus Religious Freedom Institute (Ottawa);
Canada’s first Ambassador of Religious Freedom, appointed by
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
“5 out of 5 stars . . . A book worth reading . . . I would like to highly recommend this book . . .”
— Dr. James Harold,
Professor of Philosophy (Sometime Philosophy Department Chair)
Franciscan University of Steubenville
From Dr. Harold’s review of William Baptiste’s book Realism Versus Relativism: THE THINKING REVOLUTION
Unveils the Philosophical Incompatibility Underlying Today’s Polarized Politics
“William Baptiste, author of Democracy 101, sets the stage for lasting democracy . . . The author is right when he states that there is no fruit without roots. Christianity is the root of our human rights and freedoms and our only hope and safeguard. For the sake of our children and grandchildren, I endorse this book as my pledge of allegiance to democracy.”
– Sean Mulligan, Christian Heritage Party of Canada
Before his Ph.D. studies at the Sheptytsky Institute and being a professor at Dominican University College (where he replaced Dr. Andrew Bennett, appointed Canada’s Ambassador of Religious Freedom), William Baptiste got his Master’s Degree with Honors at Franciscan University of Steubenville (FUS), where the Philosophy Chair testified in writing to the University President and others of
“his tremendous academic talent” and “considerable power of mind;”
noting
“It is very difficult to conquer certain ideas, especially in a discipline that is not one’s own, and yet he did that in a seemingly easy and effortless way. He was able to master the ideas and “clothe” them in his own words with nothing lost in the translation. It is an extremely rare kind of student who can make a difficult discipline one’s own in the space of a semester.”
William Baptiste has since used this genius intelligence and a lifetime of reading (and haunting academic libraries, sometimes sleeping in them to the chagrin of university officials) to thoughtfully discern and lay out clearly from the tangled webs of historical details the “golden threads” woven throughout history that give us all our Human Rights and democratic freedoms. It helped that he was professor of a university course covering the period during which what he has identified as The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy were laid; and covering many of the thinkers who laid them throughout the West.
At FUS, the famous Dr. Scott Hahn wrote William’s work was
“outstanding,” “excellent,” “clear, thoughtful and thorough”
and the Theology Chair Dr. Alan Schreck endorsed William’s educational Donum Veritatis – The Gift of Truth Ministries (including Christian Unity in Diversity Central)
“as an effective and important means to spread the faith and to promote Christian unity… It really is a ‘gift’ to the ‘Internet Generation.’”
William Baptiste was invited three times to the ecumenical Springtime of Faith Rome Summits (Catholic and Evangelical Christian leaders meeting in Rome with Vatican Officials) for being considered “one of the dynamic leaders building the New Springtime of Faith.” William was the first Eastern Rite Christian to attend the Summits, as a member of the 20th Century’s largest underground Church, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which officially did not exist in the totalitarian (Atheist, Marxist) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) which committed the Holodomor Genocide against his Ukrainian ethnic group.
The Director of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies (MASI), the Very Reverend Stephen Wojcichowsky, confirmed that
“Mr. Baptiste is an exceptionally talented [doctoral] student”
and that
“the professors and staff of the Sheptytsky Institute are pleased that William has chosen to pursue this important [ecumenical doctoral] work at our Institute, which shares his ecumenical spirit and prays with him that Christ’s disciples may indeed ‘be one … so that the world may believe’ ” (John 17:21),
adding that
“He has an indomitable determination to use his many gifts to serve God by working towards the reunification of the Church and bringing the Good News of salvation to the world . . . William has infectious confidence in the love and power of the Holy Trinity and he manages to exude the joy of the Holy Spirit even when facing challenging difficulties.”
William Baptiste’s personal and family life has been marked by many “challenging difficulties” and tragedies including auto accidents, serious illness and injury, hospitalizations, deaths and floods, above all the death of his wife (“Dear Bride” Lorelle), mother of his (now mostly young adult) six children leaving him a widower. But his genuine joy in knowing Jesus Christ through his Christian Faith has been a constant strength to him and an inspiration to others. As a Theology Professor of the Early Church Fathers (with a scholarly special interest in the Undivided Early Church of the First Millennium) he always taught his students (and he has never tired of repeating to all Christians):
“The early Christians were like us. Dedicated Christians in a hostile outward environment, and our greater culture is getting ever more hostile to Christianity as Western Civilization more and more rejects the Christian heritage which made it great. But those early Christians, armed with the same things we have access to, utterly transformed the greater culture around them with the Love of Jesus. And we can absolutely do it again.”
Thus it is that, after recovering from a series of tragedies (deaths and floods and hospitalizations), in order to stimulate the necessary societal dialogue about these vital things in 2025 William Baptiste has published to his author website WilliamBaptiste.com the relatively short essential core of his book The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy (Plus 10 Core Principles of Lasting Democracy) and the relatively short essential core of his book The Common Creed of Christianity: Reintroducing Christianity to Western Civilization Built on It “So That the World May Believe.” Making this stimulating and important content generally available (with many more details available in his books) so that it may be read and discussed widely in the greater society, with a mechanism for feedback and dialogue (email your contributions to Dialogue@WilliamBaptiste.com. Contributions to the necessary societal dialogue about these things may be included in future books!).
William Baptiste is the Voice speaking with intellectual honesty and clarity to our unstable times (where Free Democracy itself is threatened) how to build Human Rights and Democratic Freedoms to last for centuries on their firm traditional, historical, philosophical, scientific and logical foundations.
William Baptiste declares THE THINKING REVOLUTION and invites the willing (and challenges the unwilling) to LEARN and THINK about these important documents and engage in dialogue about them – both for the long-term maintenance of Human Rights and Free Democracy which depend upon these gathered principles and their Christian origins, and for the sake of each human being’s salvation and greatest fulfilment which is available to all through Christianity (Christianity which has earned a hearing because of the ultimately Christian origins of Human Rights, Free Democracy, and even Science itself, as demonstrated in William Baptiste’s books).
William Baptiste says to Christians,
“It is my sincere hope that as Christians first become aware of the Common Creed of Christianity and the Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy, both of which make clear Christianity’s unique and immensely important contributions to Western Civilization, that they will become newly excited about being Christians – and empowered by the Holy Spirit of Wisdom to engage the greater culture with the Christian Message, both for the long-term maintenance of Human Rights and Free Democracy which depend upon Christian foundations and for Evangelism – growing the Adopted Family and Kingdom of God. These documents should open doors for honest, thinking people to listen to Christians, and to what they have to share with humanity – which is nothing less than Eternal Life!
Having taught a course in the Formal Science of Logic, as a logician William Baptiste reminds all those non-Christians who would read his above Christian qualifications and be tempted to simply dismiss his books merely on that basis (instead of engaging with their powerful facts and logic with intellectual honesty), that to do so is to commit what the Science of Logic calls “the genetic fallacy” combined with “circular reasoning,” known as “Bulverism.” He writes,
“Intellectually dishonest, bigoted anti-Christian and Pro-Choice “Bulverism” first assumes that Christians and Pro-Lifers are wrong and then “justifies” turning off the brain and not listening to facts and logic presented by Christians and Pro-Lifers merely on the basis of the “wrongness” assumed but not proved (circular reasoning). Intellectually lazy Bulverists say things like “you only believe that because you’re a Christian/Pro-Lifer,” as if the origin or “genetics” of their opponents’ belief justify simply dismissing their position (the genetic fallacy), without any regard to the overwhelming facts of Science, Logic, and Human Rights History (and the History of Philosophy) which support the conclusions that Pro-Life = Pro-Democracy and that Christianity, if it need not be individually embraced, must at least be respected by governments as the origin and source of the underlying Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy, in any country that wants to remain a free democracy and not eventually fall to current ‘Creeping Totalitarianism’ now undermining Democracy from its very foundations.”
William declares:
“No intellectually honest person can deny Western Human Rights and freedoms start with The Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy identified herein (like equal human preciousness and the Inherent Human Right to Live), which Christianity introduced into the West, and only the intellectually dishonest would dismiss these books lightly and without engaging with their undisputed scientific and historical facts and sound logic. But LASTING Democracy, religious freedom, and Human Rights for all requires that in response to current ‘Creeping Totalitarianism’ these books start a DIALOGUE in Western nations about just how to ensure these highest of Western values last for the long-term.”
William Baptiste’s WilliamBaptiste.com website (and books) in 2025 launch a THINKING REVOLUTION and a Global Solidarity Movement for these key Traditional Western Values which Democracy was built on to be the continued guide of public policy, a movement which can rally under the Flag of Democracy William designed for the purpose, which states the necessary starting point right on the flag:
Foundational Principle of Democracy #1: EQUAL HUMAN PRECIOUSNESS, NO EXCEPTIONS
and
Foundational Principle of Democracy #2: FREEDOM OF SPEECH, THOUGHT, RELIGION
Legal human-killing by abortion is of course the greatest and worst “exception” to the “Equal Human Preciousness” which most people would want to say they support (but do not). This is the gross “exception” which in fact legally nullifies any “Inherent Human Right to Live” which should be the basis and foundation of Human Rights and Freedoms. If preborn humans (identical to each of us at their age) can be legally killed by abortion, it means there is no legally recognized “Inherent Human Right to Live” and each of us has no more “Inherent Human Right to Live” in the eyes of the government as any aborted/murdered preborn human baby. Which is precisely why our laws are getting so totalitarian and undemocratic – including the fact that this Human Rights Scholar can be arrested and jailed in my country just for peacefully saying “Killing Humans is wrong because Human Rights are for all humans” if I do so where it is most pertinent to say it – within 150 meters (500 feet) of a legal human-killing abortion facility. Anti-democratic laws such as this – which literally make it a crime to speak the Foundational Principles of Human Rights and Democracy – must not be allowed to stay on the books of any self-proclaimed “democracy.”
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