Tag Archives: government
no post today
I have no post for you today, though I reserve the right to change my mind about that later in the day. For now, I hope I can compensate by inviting you to a discussion of what Mennonites believe about government and what libertarianism means concretely: http://fontwords.com/2011/05/23/mennonite-monday-on-that-mennonite-confession-article-5#comments Related Posts:mennonite monday: on that mennonite confession, article [...]
mennonite monday: on that mennonite confession, article 5
The text I am referring to may be found here. Here’s what the Mennonite Church USA confesses with regard to creation and divine providence. It’s short and sweet. Note that the bits following a single caret > are the text of the Confession, the >> bits are the scriptures referenced but not quoted in the [...]
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some thoughts on trends and the future
The Post I think the style of government currently found in the US and similar democracies is unstable. More specifically, I don’t think that the world a few generations from now will be filled with religiously pluralistic, representative democratic, fiat currency-using, debt-finances governments which provide twelve years of public school, massive university systems, healthcare, welfare, [...]
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odd political morality in the coffee shop
I’m writing this in a coffee shop, where a group of conservative senior folks are discussing rights and wrongs in politics. And generally I agree with what I overhear. Am I eavesdropping? No. They talk loud enough that I have no qualms about hearing what they say. Anyhow, today they reached a very interesting moral [...]
on google snooping and the march of the regulators
It was recently uncovered that Google vans captured information about what websites people were visiting. It’s an embarrassing blunder for Google, which claims the information was accidentally gathered by “experimental software” and wasn’t actually used in any way. Although I have my doubts about Google’s public statement, I’m not worried, nor am I at all [...]
kerby anderson, government, and the bible
I’m not going to try to tell you what sort of government, if any, the Bible demands we build. A lot of people do that. I’m going to do the exact opposite. I’m going to take a fair representative of what many Christians do with the Bible, and explain why their system of reasoning is [...]
Posted in uncategorized Also tagged bible, christian view of government and law, civil government, kerby anderson, marxism, philospher-kings, plato, romans 3:23 2 Comments
government makes up ip loss stats
You’ve seen those strange commercials that compare burning a DVD for a friend to stealing a car, right? The central premise of those commercials and many other manifestations of the anti-copying campaign is that copying something without the permission is just like actually robbing someone. Related Posts:Uncle Sam doesn’t need more soldiers.A Practical Program of [...]
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on the proliferation of makelaw: sec edition
There are two main strategies for dealing with law. One is the concept of natural law, the idea that there’s a few basic things that are just wrong, and should be punished for the good of all. For example, attacking people is forbidden. And so is taking their stuff. Threatening to beat somebody up if [...]
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is a green bubble developing?
Entrepreneur magazine asks the question. With so much money being poured into “green” energy ventures which so far have yielded sparse results, are we developing a green bubble, where the unrealistic bidding-up has unrealistically inflated the value of tech stocks? Such a bubble, if it exists, would be setting us up for a drop in [...]
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A Practical Program of Disenfranchisement: A 10-Step Plan to Save American Democracy by Dismantling It