This page is about high-quality, incisive commentary to world affairs. CPEART stands for democratic rights, representative, parliamentary government; free, unhindered elections of political representatives; privately-owned media free of government intervention with free expression of views from their writers, even if this occasionally disrupts the peace of individuals or entities; all criticism is
legitimate and must be met on the chin by recipients, even if those on the receiving line are states or collectives, like established, often self-serving elites; CPEART stands for a free-market economy, orthodoxly managed. CPEART is politically conservative, pro-Jewish, foreigner-friendly but Thatcher-admiring (remember, the grocer's daugther), dutifully reverent to British middle-class culture (even though we lack the millions in the bank, for now). We believe in orthodox sound finances to fund all of our much-loved social programmes. Lower spending, taxing and borrowing by the state are however essential to achieve economic growth and thus increased tax revenues and job creation. This is the only policy that can sustain quality public services in the long run, and around it there's a liberal-conservative consensus. Unsound finances with uncontrolled public spending and unfair, tax evasion-encouraging high taxes would only decrease the availability of money to be lent to the state by investors who would therefore lend only at higher rates of interest, making public finances less sound. It's a shame the Left hasn't grasped this yet, despite all IMF and World Bank evangelising, let alone by the business community. Regarding public sector management, you don't increase the quality of public services by just throwing more money at them, because the public sector has gained a reputation for financial and managerial inefficiency, except in some northern European states, notably Scandinavia. We don't have a problem with income inequality, provided there is a social security net for the most impoverished, sick, disabled and elderly. Regarding religion, CPEART is theologically radical, promoting a modern, Jewish, Unitarian reading of Christianity. Some themes: we're non-sacramental; truth, reason, sciences and common sense are above, not below Scripture, which is only human; humanity of Jesus incompatible with divinity, therefore the latter has to be rejected; embracing modern biblical studies (Pontificium Institutum Biblicum-inspired , Jesus Seminar research); discouraging non-psalmic, private prayer on grounds of neuroticism and materialistic or inane prayer goals; accepting of a miracle-less, painful, learn-the-hard-way life that nevertheless God is very willing to transform; LGTB-discouraging; marriage-deconstructing, finding other long-term but upgradable, day-to-day arrangements more realistic and convenient, disposing of all those divorce lawyers (no more eternal promises insensitive to future behaviours or take-for-granted partners); Converging theologically with Judaism, where it all started, with rabbi Jesus of Nazareth and his vision. However, We're liturgically very conservative in the Old Catholic tradition, beauty-seeking, Eastern-Orthodox-style.
