Libertarian Theology

Mostly Heresies, and a few Doctrines
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  • Adam Michael Wood

Burdened by Altruism Aug 18, 2015

Photo Credit I was at Trader Joe's in Berkeley one morning. There was a woman, with two small children, standing near the parking garage, holding a sign, asking for help. I walked over and asked what I could do for her, if I could buy her some groceries. "Yes, thank you!" I asked what she needed. "Anything. You know. Perhaps some vegetables. Or even just a gift card." I ran through the store, grabbed some assorted vegetables, and also some non-perishable food items, some fun things for the kids which I figured they didn't get enough of, a gift card,...

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White Privilege Mostly Isn’t Jul 30, 2015

We needed a word to describe the bundle of advantages and disadvantages that accrue to blacks and whites in this country. "Privilege" is the wrong word.

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Media Lies and the Problem of Information Dec 10, 2014

How can we really know what is going on in the world when we are being lied to constantly?

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Top Ten Signs Your English Teacher is a Damned Statist Aug 12, 2014

Is your English teacher a damned Statist? Find out now, and protect yourself from grammar socialism.

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Pro-life and anti-welfare Aug 5, 2014

Many would say that using tax dollars to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless is a good and virtuous thing. A pro-life thing. A Christian thing. To be sure, these things are a better use of tax dollars than bullets and bombs and bridges to nowhere. But "better than terrible" is not necessarily "good."

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Minimum Wage Thinking and Salvation Theology Apr 17, 2014

The conception behind minimum wage laws - and any similar notion that supposes that employees should receive payment or benefits unrelated to the transactional value which they bring to their employers - is economically unsound. Though most people in our culture today would disagree with this point, it is at least well understood by most libertarian and anarchist thinkers, as well as by any one who has ever run a business. What is not widely understood, even by most Christian libertarians, is that this economically unsound principle is also deeply connected to unsound theology regarding the worth and value of...

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