Libertarianism and Christianity have nothing to do with one another

By Schrodinger | December 30, 2008

Christ consistently espoused charity and selflessness, he also wasn’t too big on rich people. Libertarians tend to be socially awkward people who value wealth over others and don’t generally give a shit about the state of the world or those around them.

If you try to argue that ’social liberalism’ and ‘liberalism’ came from christianity in anything other than the most fleeting sense of acknowledging that free will has been press-ganged by the jesus freaks as their posterboy for why ‘x did y’, you are a complete fucking idiot.

Religion has nothing to do with individualism and everything to do with suppressing it. You can argue until you’re blue in the face that the modern foundation upon which liberty is based came from a christian society, but keep in mind that the jurist system came from witch trials, that evidence law came from the spanish inquisition, that the geneva convention came out of the horrors of WWI.

Human nature is characterised by its ability to extract even a grain of wonderment out of the atrocities of holocausts.

To even think, in any serious sense that religions, particularly christianity, espoused individual liberty and championed the individual, is such onanistic, solipsistic, puerile ignorance that of course, only religion could be involved.

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Malfoy 1 month ago 1 point
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See, I don't think libertarianism or classical liberalism came directly FROM Christianity, but I think there is a case that they are compatible with each other, and there's at least one author of the Austrian school who's actually written a book on this matter. Not all religions are filled with Hillsong types trying to suppress individual liberties - that's a sweeping assumption and one that's false.

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Silent bob 1 month ago 1 point
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You start off endorsing Christianity as a movement of selfless love, then you end by slashing it for so-called oppression?

Scatter-brained junk

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Bruce 1 month ago 1 point
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When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas,... [sniff]

That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself.

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Anonymous 2 weeks ago 1 point
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"Libertarians tend to be socially awkward people who value wealth over others and don’t generally give a shit about the state of the world or those around them."

Wat?

lol, socialist apologists...fra-uds.

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Malfoy 2 weeks ago 1 point
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Yeah, actually, I'd disagree with that statement too -- if I knew Nolan wasn't being sarcastic.

(Also: Just had a laugh - the comment verification words were "party trotting." Amused!)

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