tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993518718588952892.post1974250260104053502..comments2023-11-30T15:30:10.482+13:00Comments on True Paradigm: Christian libertarianismbethyadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08990677679970591625noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993518718588952892.post-25937828965311483072010-02-23T04:16:52.495+13:002010-02-23T04:16:52.495+13:00For myself, Christian libertarianism is a more ord...For myself, Christian libertarianism is a more orderly variant of Christian anarchism. That is to say, that the Christian is in the world and thus subject to earthly rulers, while owing them no fealty, for his citizenship is in the Kingdom of God, and Jesus Christ is his only true lord. The Christian is an alien in this world, an ambassador from the Kingdom of God; he is not a subject of the principalities of this dark world who may someday emigrate to heaven, as many conservatives would have it. <br /><br />The reason so many Christians today despise libertarianism is because of their misreading of the Old Testament. They think that the pattern for government is set out by the Torah, and so they want to replicate the Israelite monarchy in all its legalism and ritualistic glory. <br /><br />They have missed all the other books of the OT that show what a massive failure the Israelite monarchy was. The Israelite monarchy was born out of the people's wickedness and rejection of God (1 Samuel 8 and 12) and it ended up in sinfulness, murder, injustice, and exile. (Here I refer to "injustice" according to God's meaning in the OT, rather than the humanistic contemporary sense.)Davehttp://sophronismos.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993518718588952892.post-72736539821494610122010-02-22T19:13:16.494+13:002010-02-22T19:13:16.494+13:00Quite possibly Mike. It may be that the idea of li...Quite possibly Mike. It may be that the idea of limited government is a similar result of 2 fundamentally different philosophies. This may be reasonable to point out, but when people claim that Christianity is incompatible with libertarianism because of problems with some ideals that are contrary to Christianity, it doesn't follow that the shared desire of limited government cannot exist.<br /><br />Further, it may be that the moderns are parasitic on Christian thought. The see the benefit of limited government from Christian philosophy, then argue for different reasons because of their dislike of the demands of Christianity. Somewhat analogous to atheist morality.bethyadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08990677679970591625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7993518718588952892.post-59239232455437489772010-02-21T16:38:00.099+13:002010-02-21T16:38:00.099+13:00Your definition of Autonomy is limited in a way th...Your definition of Autonomy is limited in a way that most libertarians would not limit it. For most of them, a liberal cultural is as important as liberal laws which grant a framework of self-government. Therefore, they will seek to make the culture match their view of how the law should be in this regard. Thus, they often become the enemies of tradition and higher goods because these things undermine our relational autonomy.<br /><br />Objectivists may claim that they are not libertarians, but they are the Bolsheviks to the LP's Meshavik party. Same cause, different level of radicalism. The principled vanguard often goes so far as to deny that parents have an innate duty to their children which limits their autonomy relative to them. They also find it "immoral" to suggest that if you own a boat, and a man is floundering in the water, that you have a duty to him to let him get on your boat if you can safely do so.<br /><br />Libertarians generally believe that we should all be islands; objectivists believe we should be islands that resemble the beaches at Normandy whenever someone may encroach upon us.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15138360416884607340noreply@blogger.com