I am not one of those pimple-face kids whose political philosophy seems to be:
"Libertarians think marijuana should be legal?that you have seen running rampant on FR as of late.
COOL...I'll be a Libertarian!"
I know the difference between COULD and SHOULD...
and between LICENSE and LICENTIOUSNESS .
I had my own born again moment 11 years ago after reading Atlas Shrugged at age 38 and then witnessing the true, immoral faces of evil of Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy and other "compassionate" liberals as they attacked Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas so mercilessly.
The scales were dropped from my eyes.....
Not my morality.
I was raise a Southern Baptist and have great respect for Christian Philosophy.....
But I want my government based on the Constitution....not the Old Testament.
A decent reply, and a point well taken.
JFYI, I'm somewhere torn between Ayn Rand's Objectivism (by way of personal experience with Nathanial Brandon), and C.S. Lewis (gentle, awesome, and rational Christian philosophy). I loved Objectivism, but can't find a way to resolve the spiritual emptiness (as the "spiritual Libertarianist", Brandon, pointed out to me). And I loved C.S. Lewis, but can't completely let myself abandon the secular age of reason. But those are just my two milestones, my Charybdis and Scylla. I've bounced off every philosophical wall from Bogota to Bombay, from Moscow to Berlin, and from Lhasa to Rome, to get myself here.
So I visit an improbable and schizophrenic position, to be sure. I live in and reason in a secular world, but my tears are with the persecuted prophets of the ages. But that's the difficulty of really trying to be aware about life. Impossible extremes become the challenge that tempers our souls. Nobody said it would be easy, did they.
BTW, what DID you think of Original Sin? As a secular piece, of course.