Libertarians are more reminiscent of original ‘true conservatives’.
Spirited: Nothing could be further from reality. While a handful of the Founders were Deists, most were Christian even if only nominally. All of them adhered to unique spiritual foundations specific to the Bible such as for example, the Bibles definition of man created in the likeness of the triune God, meaning that man is a tripartite being: spirit (mind, will, conscience), soul (self), body.
Within the context of this view property rights begin with the spiritual, not the temporal.
Modern Libertarianism has its roots in polytheistic positivism, whose father is the madman Comte and in Ayn Rand’s materialism, Modern materialism has its roots in ancient Egypt and in certain Greek nature philosophers such as Epicurus.
Common to both views is naturalism. Naturalism denies the existence of the living triune God and posits spontaneously generated matter (generated from nothing) as its’ source of being....life, consciousness. However, spontaneous generation was disproved over 100 years ago, which means naturalism has no source whatever for life, consciousness, and mind. And this is precisely why materialists like Richard Dawkins are quietly moving away from spontaneous generation and toward extraterrestrials in the hope that they are the sowers of life on our planet. Of course this position merely moves the unresolvable problem of the origin of life out into deep space.
For many long years Libertarians have loudly boasted of their reason while ridiculing the faith of Christians. However, the brutal reality for Libertarians is this: Christians have a living Source of life and mind. But Libertarians, evolutionary materialists (i.e., dialectical materialists, secular humanists) and polytheistic pantheists(i.e., positivists, spiritual transhumanists) have no source for life and mind,. For them, life and mind are like the Kings’ new clothes-—nonexistent.
That’s a nice little box you built for Libertarians. Too bad few will actually fit in it.
In the aftermath of the election, my wife and I were feeling particularly disgusted with the sad state of political affairs in this country. We are very conservative people, both socially and fiscally, believe in small government, and are committed Christ followers (the kind that actually have a living relationship with our risen Savior, not the kind that park their dead butts in a dead church once a week to go through worn-out religious motions). We were discussing the way our views on how things should be done have changed, but our basic values have stayed the same. We somehow got on the subject of Libertarians and decided to read the LP’s platform so that we could actually see what they believe rather than what others say they believe.
We could find very little in the Libertarian Party’s platform that we could disagree with. It is the philosophy of responsible adults who don’t believe we have the right to treat other adults like children who need to be ordered about. I’m not a registered Libertarian, but I am done with being treated like a serf by the GOP.