Freedom
We respond to polished presentations like this: With this: I support traditional marriage but if I had to make a decision based solely on the testimonies above I’d have to side with the person who made an articulate case based on freedom.
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Everyone wants to live in a perfect world. That’s not a really surprising statement. What separates us, however, is whether we think a perfect world is attainable given the current state of affairs and whether we think it is possible to bring about a perfect world. How we answer these crucial questions is what defines [...]
A liberal friend of mine sent me this article from Forbes which attempts to argue that “Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798″ From the article: In July of 1798, Congress passed – and President John Adams signed -“An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen.” The law authorized the [...]
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During a discussion on same-sex marriage with one of my more liberal friends, I mentioned not wanting the state to encourage self-destructive behavior like homosexuality. My friend asked why I, a libertarian, would want the government to interfere in people’s lives. Unfortunately this is actually a common libertarian position. So in an attempt to persuade [...]
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Contra to Politifact, the government takeover of healthcare, characterized by the existence of strict government oversight as to who gets what treatment when and where (aka, “death panels”), or none at all, is very real. Its also increasingly hard to sustain the notion that the government takeover of healthcare is not an established fact when [...]
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Here are a series of videos from Bill Whittle which describe a few of the core tenants that conservatives believe. Free enterprise The problem with elitism Wealth creation Natural law
A friend of mine on Facebook posted the following video with the following claim: No responsibility doesn’t presuppose freedom, but responsibility does presuppose authority. Here is my initial response, along with the ensuing conversation’s highlights. It presupposes both actually. Responsibility requires both someone to be held accountable and someone to be held accountable to. Both [...]
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The common view of the multiplicity of wills of God (revealed and secret) has several flaws. Namely it seeks to resolve the apparent paradox posed by the view of God’s sovereignty wherein God MUST get his way without fail (and his way is the only way any situation or event may come about) and the [...]
Ellis Potter, in a talk posted by Apologetics315, made an assertion that I found to be quite helpful in explaining how Christianity is not, as Christopher Hitchens asserts; evil, totalitarian, and oppressive . All things comport to a particular form (or several related forms) and when the form one is made to conform to is [...]
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