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Thread: 5 Reasons Christianity and Libertarianism are Compatible, Young Evangelicals Say

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Comparing them Islam is a step too far. Some of the fundamentalists may be a scam, but they don't cut people's heads off.
    I'm only comparing the lack of hierarchy and oversight.
    In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    I'm only comparing the lack of hierarchy and oversight.
    fair enough
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    I'm only comparing the lack of hierarchy and oversight.

    Right, criticising libertarian principle for lacking authoritarian hierarchy and oversight.


    One meaning of libertarian is a believer in free will.
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler

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    Quote Originally Posted by midcan5 View Post
    That nonsense is so un-Christian it boggles my mind and I ain't religious today.

    "Put differently, there are two equal but opposite errors into which Christians have fallen in the modern world. One error is to "privatize" faith, interpreting and applying it to the personal and spiritual realm only. That way faith loses its integrity and becomes "privately engaging and publicly irrelevant." ¶ The other error, represented by the Religious Left in the 1960s and the Religious Right since the late 1970s, is to "politicize" faith, using faith to express essentially political points that have lost touch with biblical truth. That way faith loses its independence, the church becomes "the regime at prayer," Christians become the "useful idiots" or "biddable foot soldiers" for one political party or another, and the Christian faith becomes an ideology in its purest form: Christian beliefs are used as weapons for political interests. In short, out of anxiety about a vanishing culture or in a foolish exchange for an illusory promise of power, Christians are cheated into bartering away their identity, motives, language, passions, and votes.

    ... Christians have already lost their independence when they attempt to find political solutions for problems that are essentially cultural and prepolitical — in other words, when they ask politics to do what politics cannot do.

    When there has been a profound sea change in culture, as the United States has experienced since the 1960s, it is both foolish and futile to think that it can be reversed and restored by politics alone. That approach will always fail, and can only fail. Politics is downstream from the deep and important changes in American culture, and what lies upstream is mostly beyond the reach of political action. Thus overreaching political activism is bound not only to fail, but to leave the cultural changes more deeply entrenched than ever and those fighting them weaker than ever."

    Os Guinness 'The Case For Civility"

    http://www.amazon.com/Case-Civility-...=books&ie=UTF8




    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post380845
    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post964088
    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post656808
    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...l=1#post518832
    http://thepoliticalforums.com/thread...ll=1#post62368
    Your first sentence explains how wrong you are. While the article may be a bit over the top it is basic truth that the government never does as well what Christianity has done. Christian charity is about what do you need; the government is always about what can we give you.

    What bothers you is morality. Liberalism is the rejection of right and wrong. It replaced it with
    whatever is the flavor of the month.
    Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
    Pick your enemies carefully.






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