This will work out just fine, I am quite sure.
Bill Gates continues to prove he should stick to software.
Is Sweden burning?
Now go forth and do libertarian things!
Author: Swiss Servator
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Sunday Links
I got nothin’ ….so have a generic libertarian image You want content?! Are you daft? But since it appears we have gained a lot of people, and SP labored long and hard to upgrade this place…
A CONSPIRACY OF PRIVILEGE, SQUASHED!!!
Residents of the East Coast express dismay at AGW evidence.
Ungood, plus ungood, or double plus ungood?
Afghanistan continues its disintegration.
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Saturday Night Fever…er, Links
ROADZ? Saturday Night Links, eh? You get what you pay for….and and I might have had a couple of beverages before assembling these;
Tax avoidance? The Devil you say!
I would laugh, but in a week I could be shoveling snow,
So….any of you been in Alaska lately? Asking for a friend.
We need the State to keep us safe!
This link is literally Hitler.
OK, that is enough for now, you reprobates.
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Saturday Morning Links
Since we seem to have quite the weekend audience, some moar lynx to keep y’all commenting (please note, there may or may not be Saturday PM Links – buyer is not being given any warranty, express or implied by the use of the word “Morning”….*extended legalese*;
Chicago PD railroaded a group of 4 men (hard to imagine!!!!) – the last of them just got out of prison,
It isn’t just cops doing no-knock raids that get the wrong address,
You want to see journalism under attack – don’t watch a DC presser, read this,
Orphan drug designation = FDA asshattery?
h/t OMWC on the journalism story, *mimes a thank-you to JW for the FDA story*
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How can a Christian be a libertarian? Against Blue Laws and Gambling or Porn bans.
Grüezi mitenand. It is good to be back into the libertarian discussion arena.
In some libertarian discussion, one can find suspicion, if not out right hostility, to Christianity. Not necessarily hostility to it as a faith, mind you, but as a source of ….inspiration for meddling in other’s affairs.
The easiest examples are Blue Laws – especially those aimed at alcohol sales on Sunday and their ilk. Other simple fingers to point are the crusading against pornography or gambling. You can rightfully hear the question “How can Christians be libertarian if they can’t even stop themselves from using the Law to dictate their vision of morality?”
My answer to that is… THEY ARE DOING CHRISTIANITY WRONG.
Being a Christian means you should behave certain ways, not force others to behave that way. That is the way of the Taliban, chopping off hands of women who wear nail polish or beating men who don’t have a long enough beard. As a Christian, you are supposed to persuade, be an example, teach the willing and pray for everyone. Many of the lessons of Scripture are recognizing real faith and virtue vs rote, faithless observance of forms. If you think gambling is immoral, then don’t gamble. Go ahead and persuade people that gambling can lead to all sorts of problems. But if you find yourself in front of the zoning commission arguing against a casino being built in your town, knock it off.
Even with the admonition found in Genesis
[5] And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
[6] Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.a Christian can remain libertarian on capital punishment. While I favor the existence of capital punishment – I am not blind to the abuses the State can, and does, perpetuate. Its one thing to execute the no doubt guilty John Wayne Gacy – it is another to try and shove Corey Maye into the grave.
So, my fellow libertarians, I would ask that you give Christians the benefit of the doubt. But if they advocate the use of the power of the temporal State to fashion an end to their moral liking….then let them have it!