Libertarians and the Church

Catholic Analysis ^ | 30 August 2014 | Matthew Olson

[Alex Murphy]

A couple more:
Catholics 'more likely to back state economic intervention' [European Central Bank study]
How theology ties into economics

[HarleyD]

These are good posts. I really liked the one “Is Obama thinking like a Catholic”. Except on abortion, I often wondered if the Catholics are thinking like Obama.

[spintreebob]

the Judeo-Christian view of politics starts with Joshua. About to cross the Jordan after 40 years in the wilderness, Joshua said “Choose you this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
1. Whom you serve is a choice..not an echo.
2. ME is the 1st level of government.
3. My household is the 2d level of government. If you are under my roof, you will obey my rules.
4. If you are not under my roof, make your own choice.
In the next phase of “evolution”, public opinion wanted a King like all the other peoples had. Samuel warned the people that they would regret that request. One of the first “Becareful what you wish for”. So they got their king. The first king started ok but then turned bad. By the 4th King, 10 out of 12 “states” seceded from the Kingdom because they didn’t like the oppressive taxes and incide the beltway advisors of the King.
5. The New testament repeats Joshua. Jesus wasn’t there to create a Roman style kingdom. He was there to again emphasize personal choice. Each person chooses for himself whether to repent, believe, be baptized and recieve the Holy Spirit.
6. That Biblical teaching is the basis for the Judeo-Christian culture.
7. Heresies (sinful desires) have entered the Judeo-Christian tradition from time to time.
8. “MY BROTHER’S KEEPER” is the current dominant heresy. God asked Cain a question. Cain did not like the question and tried to deflect the conversation by asking a non-sequitor: Am I my brother’s keeper. Currently, many who claim the Judeo-Christian label base their heresy on the false premise created by Cain. The truth is I am my brother’s brother; not my brother’s keeper. Keepers keep animals in zoos, or specimens in collections. Keepers keep slaves on plantations. It used to be that some slave keepers beat their slaves. But Christian Keeper theology of Rev JJ and Rev AS and entire seminaries is that we should be nice and kind to others on the plantation and not beat them.
9. When a plantation dweller is beaten as in Democrat Ferguson of Democrat St Louis County under Democrat Governor with the hated name Nixon, that is not Christian. That is not what we all understood was the social contract between people on the plantation. We understood that when the oppressed act a certain way it is because we have been less than perfect keepers of the plantation. We must redouble our efforts to be better keepers of the plantation.
10. Many both on the plantation,and who have chosen to leave the plantation do not understand the above 9 points. They see the religion of some and conclude that is the religion of all.
11. (There are other heresies, sinful choices of those who claim the Judeo-Christian tradition. But above is the dominant heresy in the US right now.)