Saturday, February 15, 2014

By the Rivers of Babylon

Below is a link to my SSRN piece (a short essay) entitled "By the Waters of Babylon: Christian Libertarianism in the Age of Obama." My basic idea is that if we find ourselves exiles in Babylon (Secular America) we ought to be able to agree that a small Babylonian government is better than a large Babylon government (i.e. in Babylon, Christians should be small government libertarians). Here is the link (which allows you to download the article free of charge):



A shorter version of this paper will be published soon in The Christian Lawyer.

I am not assigning this piece, but you may find it interesting. My basic premise is that the best way to protect religious liberty, in a society that seems not to value religious liberty, is to protect liberty generally. In other words, if liberty is maximized for everyone, religious liberty will be maximized as well. Liberty for all is liberty for each one.

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