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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Full disclosure: I’m a libertarian (small-l)

It is my opinion, our founders were as well
How well does your opinion coincide with reality?
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

— George Washington, farewell address, 1796

Our constitution is only fit for a moral and religious people. It is wholly unsuited to the governance of any other kind.

— John Adams

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped. … As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see …

— Benjamin Franklin, alleged "Deist"; in letter to Ezra Stiles

It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

— Patrick Henry
Lots more of those abound. Way more than ought to fit in one post on here. To be a "Constitutionalist" means to share the ideals of those who were responsible for the Constitution, not to subvert the document to your own ends as the liberals do.
76 posted on 05/15/2011 1:05:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

You believe libertarianism and Christianity are somehow in conflict?

How so please?


80 posted on 05/15/2011 1:07:12 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ("Saul Alinsky, meet Donald Trump...")
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