Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Martin Marty is puzzled why Christians fall for an atheist "philosophy" like libertarianism


Maybe the reason he is puzzled is because calling libertarianism a philosophy is an intellectual error.

There's precious little wisdom in libertarianism. It's an ideology, not unlike Christianity. It attracts the same kind of persons, i.e. persons who think ideologically or are predisposed to think ideologically, that is, in reductionist terms.

It shouldn't be surprising that some people on this spectrum are poached by a rival system.

There's nothing quite as comparable to a Jesus freak as a self-identified atheist.