{"id":12836,"date":"2011-12-31T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12836"},"modified":"2011-12-31T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:27:21","slug":"the-christian-post-no-you-cant-be-a-christian-and-a-libertarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/31\/the-christian-post-no-you-cant-be-a-christian-and-a-libertarian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christian Post<\/em>: No, you can’t be a Christian and<\/em> a libertarian"},"content":{"rendered":"

The executive editor of The Christian Post<\/em><\/a> explains why liberty is incompatible with the teachings of Christianity:<\/p>\n

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Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and executive editor of The Christian Post<\/em>, said that \u201cof course libertarians can be Christians — but so can racists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you are a Christian and a libertarian, you would have to basically ignore all of Romans 13 where God lays down a specific role that the government is divinely ordained to play which is to reward those who are right and punish those who are evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLibertarians are not being consistent in applying the Bible to their thought process,\u201d Land contended The government not only has a right, he said, but is called upon by God to regulate societal morality.<\/p>\n

\u201cSlavery was outlawed by the government. Is that not a moral issue? There are laws against rape, murder, theft … all of these are moral issues that the government has and must regulate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The evangelical leader argues that libertarians compartmentalize their faith when their Christian faith must be first and foremost in every aspect of their life — even in politics and government.<\/p>\n

Many Christian libertarians, for instance, argue that sin that is \u201cvictimless\u201d — such as drug use — should not be made illegal because users knowingly chose to use the substance on their own accord, and by exercising their free will poorly, they will also have to suffer the consequences.<\/p>\n

Conservative Christians, however, do not see any sin as \u201cvictimless\u201d and argue that Christianity by its very nature affirms the idea of corporate solidarity. Therefore, every action, or lack of, has a ripple effect on society, which impacts the lives of others.<\/p>\n

According to the Christian Right, libertarians put too much emphasis on individual liberties and not enough on the consequences those liberties could have on society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The executive editor of The Christian Post explains why liberty is incompatible with the teachings of Christianity: Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and executive editor of The Christian Post, said that \u201cof course libertarians can be Christians — but so can racists.\u201d \u201cIf you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[360,550,322],"class_list":["post-12836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-libertarianism","tag-nannystate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3l2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12837,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12836\/revisions\/12837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}