Happy 4th, y’all.
Today I read this in an email from Americans For Prosperity. (I got in a heated argument with some hyper-Republicans at their national event last year. I tried to explain to someone how all flags are gangster symbols.)
The issue is the Cap and Trade bill, some notes on the House’s vote:
* Just two [...]
For starters Steve Margolis (former prof of mine – and friend) has a piece at Newmark’s Door on the cap and trade bill.
Ironically, an outright tax would have been better than the cap and trade plan. What the current bill does is assign a privilege to pollute, and then allow this privilege to [...]
In conversations about difficult topics it is important to share definitions. Capitalism is a word of many meanings.
In this conversation I lay out a defense of what I consider pure Capitalism and how Christians ought to behave among themselves, and what positions they ought to advocate – if any – in public policy debates. I [...]
Alexander and I have been talking. So far we’ve agreed on the following:
1. We have agreed that purely voluntary governments may have a right to exist. But this really challenges our definition of government. If it is merely an association for collective action, yet remains voluntary, there is no reason to quibble. What introduces compromise [...]
Well, of course they are. I don’t believe we will ever have a minarchist judicial-based government. I don’t believe we will even end welfare. I don’t think we will get rid of the Fed, and I hope we don’t build a 700 mile fence along the border with Mexico, but that’s not part of my [...]
This is a long post, but it deals with many important areas of my thought.
Sam provokes this response with a question in an email:
“Tell me where you stand as both a Christian and a hyper-capitalist on those churches that preach wealth is proof of God’s grace, and that Christians can and should live the high [...]
Anthony Bradley starts it off, and some dude named tusc0n goes deep. I try to pull them up for air with this rant.
Nations are irrelevant. If we are Christians, then we have no other allegiance. We do not attach ourselves to any pagan institution. It is not wrong to contract or covenant with a group [...]
Why hasn’t the church defeated poverty yet?
Why did it only start to make progress in the 1800’s? These are the questions of a friend at God’s Politics named N.M. Rod.
My reply:
To confuse the poverty which reigned over the earth until the 18th century with the achievements or lack of achievements of the church is wrong. [...]