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-- Acts 5:29


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Statist Problems
  • Earthly Powers
    - C.T. Rossi, March 4, 2006 [LewRockwell.com]

  • The Christianity of George WMD Bush
    - Laurence M. Vance, May 23, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Mises Debunks the Religious Case for the State
    - Laurence Vance, February 10, 2005 [Mises]

  • Faith-Based Taxes in Alabama
    This is the general failure and flaw of the entire "faith-based" approach: first, Christians must embrace, if not worship, Caesar. - Christopher Manion, June 18, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Known Only to God and John Ashcroft
    - Alan Turin, August 29, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Every witch way
    Black magic is illegal in Zambia, but there’s a lot of juju about. The results can be embarrassingly painful. - Hugh Russell, July 6, 2002 [The Spectator]

  • Should Non-Catholics Run the Catholic Church?
    - Paul Gottfried, March 15, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Pat Buchanan's Quest for a Religious Dictatorship
    The U.S. government has indeed switched from servant to master, but this doesn't appear to bother Buchanan, as long as the masters impose Christian values. - George F. Smith, February 3, 2002 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • America's True "Religion"
    True or false: America is a deeply religious country that owes all its greatness to Christianity? - David Gulbraa, October 7, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • There Is Religion In Public Schools
    Religion doesn't have to be spiritual, when you're worshipping the State. After all the brainwashing kids are forced to go through, it is no surprise that many of them cannot even grasp the concept of how anarchy can work. - Ben Scanlon, August 28, 2001 [anti-state.com]

  • Faith-Based Socialism
    "...because H.R. 7 extends the reach of the immoral, unconstitutional welfare state and thus threatens the autonomy and the effectiveness of the very faith-based charities it claims to help, I urge my colleagues to reject it." - Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), July 28, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

  • It Began with Pagans
    - Mark D. Valenti, December 10, 1995 [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]

  • The Religion of Statolatry
    - Victor Aguilar, September 1984 [LibertyHaven]


Libertarian Solutions
  • Christians and Guns
    He gave men the gifts of conscience and intelligence, so that they may decide if an action is good or worthy. So it is very hard to justify, from a Christian point of view, a law whose prime effect is to disarm honest people. - Carlo Stagnaro, August 30, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

  • My Two Conversions
    - Joseph Sobran, March 30, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

  • Religious Philosophy and Natural Law
    - Matt Lancaster, March 22, 2002 [anti-state.com]

  • A just peace is more sensible than militarism
    Enter the Interfaith Coalition for a Peaceful End to Terrorism. - March 1, 2002 [National Catholic Reporter]

  • Biblical Anarchism
    "With faith in G-d and a Biblically based submission to His good and eternal Law, let us work towards a time when the State will be seen for the unnecessary evil it is and the cry will go up in the land a second time: Abolition! Abolition! Abolition!" - Stephen W. Carson, June 7, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

  • The greatest gift for all
    "All Americans have a huge stake in Christianity. Whether or not we are individually believers in Christ, we are beneficiaries of the moral doctrine that has curbed power and protected the weak." - Paul Craig Roberts, December 20, 2000 [TownHall.com]

  • Christianity: Mother of Political Liberty
    "Christianity is not merely a matrix in which political freedom flourishes; it is the only foundation on which to build a free society." - P. Andrew Sandlin, August 17, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

  • In Defense of Martin Luther
    "Lutherans and indeed, all Bible believing Christians, are under heavy attack here in the United States because we do not simply merge into one big happy "belief system" with Jews and Muslims and every and all new age movement that stumbles across the theological start line." - Michael Peirce, March 10, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

  • In Reason We Trust
    A Book Review of "The Godless Constituition" - Joseph Kellard, June 1998 [Capitalism Magazine]

  • Biblical Roots of American Liberty
    - Edmund A. Opitz, July 1991 [LibertyHaven]


My Thoughts
  • Socialists try to destroy religion as it represents a dedication to something beyond the government.






Writings
Is Libertarianism a Heresy?
- Stephen W. Carson
What the Bible Says About Big Government
- James C. Patrick
Churchpeople, Socialism, and Capitalism
- John K. Williams
A Catholic Looks at the State
- Don Matthews
Taking Stock: Christianity and the State
- Ryan McMaken
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