5 Reasons Christianity and Libertarianism are Compatible, Young Evangelicals Say

Christian Post ^ | 02/18/2014 | BY TYLER O'NEIL

[rovenstinez]

So you ARE saying that a good Christian today would take a chain saw and cut down the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil..and make people eat of the good trees... Why did God put it there then?

[ansel12]

What the article does is describe everyday, ordinary, conservatism and pretends that it is libertarianism, totally avoiding what is so vile and disgusting about the anti-God leftism of libertarianism.

[tired&retired]

“That is an obscene statement, freedom to choose God is already there”

Not when you are addicted to some other person or government entity for your personal security. If you are not free, your ability to choose God is very limited. It takes a very strong soul who can choose God while the physical body is shackled. When the soul is shackled it is impossible to choose God.

This is why it is often easier for the prostitute or thief to enter the kingdom when they repent.

[ansel12]

This is about politics and voting, is the only reason you vote against the left, only because you agree with our economics?

Is all of your life so religion and God oriented as you are posting on this thread? You really want us to vote against what is good, and right, and traditionally Christian American and replace it with the God hating left’s goals, and do it in the name of God?

[ansel12]

What in the world was that about?

That didn’t make sense, and it sure wasn’t enough to switch me to being a pro-abortion voter, try again.

[MrEdd]

Real life does not now and never has consisted of only two factions.
I don’t have to ally myself with child predators to protect my freedoms.

Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is merely my other enemy.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What do child predators and Christianity and the end of the WOD have to do with each other.

[Stepan12]

Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is merely my other enemy

Precisely!

[Orangedog]

Libertarians also steal votes from Conservatives, allowing Liberals to win elections.

Those votes didn't belong to the other candidate. The other candidate didn't earn those votes. It shouldn't be hard to figure out that if you keep calling people child predators and othe bulls*** like that, they aren't going to vote your way. libertarians are by and large through being abused housewives.

[MrEdd]

What, you are so addled you can’t read the topic or the article?
The topic is whether libertarianism is compatible with Christianity.

Libertarianism has become connected to removing age of consent restrictions as the post quoting past official party platforms points out.

Everything does not revolve around drugs.

[ansel12]

It shouldn't be hard to figure out that if you keep calling people child predators and othe bulls*** like that, they aren't going to vote your way.

LOL, I guess we just shut down freerepublic since we don't want to expose and discuss those who oppose our conservative, pro-God agenda, because it hurts their feelings and will make them support the politicians who support their liberalism.

I think the post on how libertarians will vote to give elections to democrats was a reasonable thing to post, and it is accurate.

[Finny]

"Christians actually ought to feel outraged that the redemptive power of charity has been taken from us and given to an unfeeling, coercive state," Leah Stiles Hughey declared at a Saturday panel at The International Students for Liberty Conference. She claimed that when government gets involved in giving to the poor it denies the God-given human dignity of both giver and receiver.

Amen. Amen, AMEN.

[cornelis]

FYI, A Catholic Showdown Worth Watching

[GeronL]

They are not compatible at all

Libertarianism is the opposite

[GeronL]

definitely incompatible

[Finny]

Christians won’t do those things BY CHOICE. To assume that you can run someone’s life better than they can and to do it under threat of force is worse than the sin of drug usage or homosexuality or bestiality.

THANK YOU.

I call myself a "limited government Christian conservative." The political philosophy that guides is "Reduce government, reduce the ailment."

[GeronL]

The worst Christian bashers I have “met” online are all avowed libertarians

[MrEdd]

There is no “calling” here. The Libertarian Party official platforms from past election years was posted. It is what it is.

There isn't just some allegation here, children as sexual beings has historically been part of the platform.

People can choose to be part of that, or they can choose not to.

Don't harbor any irrational notions that other people will be okay with that part of the libertarian party, or that they won't know.

[tired&retired]

There are certain freedoms that only are arrived at by following God’s Laws. To violate those laws will only shackle a soul. And “Thou Shall Not Kill” is pretty self explanatory.

If someone wants to take their own life, that is pro choice, but as soon as they choose to take the life of a fetus, that is murder.

[ansel12]

Man, what are you talking about, we are discussing liberal politics, libertarian politics and them trying to get voters to start voting like lefties and anti-God voters.

When I vote, I don’t suddenly turn anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-God when it comes to choosing candidates and platforms and political positions.