Sorry for the long assignment, but I thought this was a very good and interesting article.
1 posted on
04/04/2006 12:56:33 PM PDT by
JTN
To: albertp; Allosaurs_r_us; Abram; Americanwolfsbrother; AlexandriaDuke; Americanwolf; Annie03; ...
Libertarian ping. To be added or removed from my ping list, freepmail me or post a message here.
2 posted on
04/04/2006 12:57:26 PM PDT by
JTN
("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
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3 posted on
04/04/2006 12:58:54 PM PDT by
JTN
("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
To: JTN
Some of the evangelicals are as statist as their opponents on the left; they want government control over everyone's life just like the liberals do, and often for the same reasons -- most people are too stupid to live their own lives, so it is up to the enlightened (either the intelligentsia or the ordained) to run those lives.
4 posted on
04/04/2006 1:02:50 PM PDT by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: billbears; Shalom Israel
Thoughts on Christian libertarianism.
6 posted on
04/04/2006 1:06:55 PM PDT by
JTN
("I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.")
To: JTN
I think that Conservative Christian Republicans need to get comfortable with being about 60% of the 60% party. Too many of us think we have to be 100% of the party. Being 60% of 60% means getting more of what we want than anyone else, but not getting everything (and having to give them some stuff we really are not happy about.) We got to the sorry state we are in due to incrementalism, and that is the only way we are going to get back to a limited federal government.
On immigration, we are NEVER, EVER, EVER as a country going to round up 11 million people, breaking up families, to deport them to a country they may not have been in for years or more. That said, what do we get for accepting some form of amnesty sometime in the future?
8 posted on
04/04/2006 1:12:17 PM PDT by
Onelifetogive
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To: JTN
14 posted on
04/04/2006 5:22:44 PM PDT by
LibertarianInExile
(Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
To: JTN; A.J.Armitage; OrthodoxPresbyterian; ksen
Sorry for the long assignment, but I thought this was a very good and interesting article.No need to apologise. There are many such as those i've pingged above whose FAITH determined their Libertarian views. While we would not be called "Randian" or "Objectivist", Libertarianism is, IMHO, the closest biblical view available.
Unfortunately, a good deal of the so-called "Religious Right" are simply authoritarian statists posing as Conservatives, and just as interested in controlling behaviour as are their Marxist/Socialist 'brethern'. Seems stupid to me when the church gets upset about sinners acting as, well, SINNERS. < /Well Duhhhhhhhhh!!!>
15 posted on
04/04/2006 10:24:18 PM PDT by
Calvinist_Dark_Lord
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