[Vision2020] These are insults, Sir. Insults I tell You!

[nickgier at adelphia.net]

Greetings:

I suppose we can excuse a person who says he is a Christian libertarian (a contradiction in terms) for confusing liberalism and socialism.  A dictionary defintion of socialism is the state ownership of the means of production.  I don't believe this nor would I bet most American liberals believe this. 

I believe that the free market, with reasonable regulation, is the best way to distribute goods and services.  Furthermore, free market capitalism has always been a policy of classical liberalism, to which I happily adhere.  See my essay at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/liberalism.htm.

About three years ago I wrote an essay on Christianity and libertarianism and posted it on this list.  (You can read it at www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/libchristian.htm.)  My conclusion is that you would have to be a really liberal Christian to get these two beliefs together.  Christ Church appears to have lot of these hybrid creatures, but none of them have bothered to untangle the logical conundrum that I have presented to them.

Incidentally, this thread "These are insults, Sir" was not intended for V2020.  A military guy responded to my piece on Veterans Day and I did not notice that he decided to copy the Vision in his last reply to me.  My apologies for not detecting this.

Nick Gier

Nick Gier

Nick Gier