Libertarianism and Christianity have been headed for a break-up for a long time. (Those seeds were sown at this nation's founding, when freedom of religion assumed the same God referred to in the first table of the Law; among other sleights-of-hand.)
Ronald Reagan worked a rather brilliant pragmatic tense-truce alliance back in 1980. Folks younger than us tend to forget that. (My older daughter, upon her birth in the late 1980s was also rushed, yellowing, into one of those bilirubin light boxes.) I flirted with Libertarianism for a while as a baby Christian, but guys like John Piper saw the problem. These two articles are brilliant, IMHO:
Excellent points, all.
Libertarianism and Christianity have been headed for a break-up for a long time. (Those seeds were sown at this nation's founding, when freedom of religion assumed the same God referred to in the first table of the Law; among other sleights-of-hand.)
Ronald Reagan worked a rather brilliant pragmatic tense-truce alliance back in 1980. Folks younger than us tend to forget that. (My older daughter, upon her birth in the late 1980s was also rushed, yellowing, into one of those bilirubin light boxes.) I flirted with Libertarianism for a while as a baby Christian, but guys like John Piper saw the problem. These two articles are brilliant, IMHO:
1979: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/the-ethics-of-ayn-rand
2014: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/ayn-rands-tragic-trajectory