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RE: Christianity and Government - Good men in authority?

in #christianity7 years ago (edited)

I agree with most of this but Christianity is clearly not Libertarian. It's socially conservative. Paul's letter to the Romans is all about how Rome has descended into pedophilia, gay sex, and orgies. This is an unsustainable and shameful predicament that puts the Romans at odds with God. Without changing their ways, the Romans will be judged harshly by God.

If Christianity was Libertarian, why would Paul and everyone else in the Bible be worried with the sexual degeneracy of the Romans? Why would they preach to people to stop having orgies and being gay? Why would they worry about the abuse of drugs and all the shameful vices that drag us down into hell?

That being said, I agree that the government is completely corrupt and we need to be using the bitcoins and avoiding taxes at all costs.

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You can be worried about "sexual degeneracy" and "drug abuse" without advocating coercion to deal with them and thus be entirely libertarian.

There are certainly elements of Christianity that are not libertarian and seem to contradict other elements, but the core ethics of Christianity are definitely libertarian.

Being a libertarian does not mean that you can't have differences of opinion. You can even try to convince people of your opinion. You simply cannot compel people to follow your opinion.