Posts Tagged ‘ Christianity ’

Christianity and Private Property Rights

2010-10-30
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Besides the Golden Rule which Jesus commanded as the ultimate social ethic, another Biblical account of Jesus's teachings is given in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard...

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Jesus on Taxes: Nothing Is (Rightly) Caesar’s!

2010-10-17
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The story of Jesus commanding us to give unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s is commonly misrepresented as His commanding us to give to Caesar the denari which he asks for (i.e., to pay taxes to government), as—it is assumed—the denari are Caesar’s, being that they have Caesar’s image and name on them. But...

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The Golden Rule Unavoidably Results in Anarchism

2010-10-10
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The Golden Rule Unavoidably Results in Anarchism

If Jesus was serious about the Golden Rule—and He certainly was—then it necessarily means that He is a consistent libertarian, as the Golden Rule as a political ethic is completely congruent with the libertarian Nonaggression Principle, i.e., that no person or group of people may initiate the use of force against another, or threaten...

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Jesus Is an Anarchist — a Free-Market, Libertarian, Anarcho-Capitalist

2010-10-02
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Jesus Is an Anarchist — a Free-Market, Libertarian,  Anarcho-Capitalist

What you thought you knew about Jesus was not the whole story—Jesus is far more radical than many would have you believe....

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Defining the Omega Point Theory

2010-09-22
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Defining the Omega Point Theory

Responding to Frank Tipler’s Proving the Existence of God, Prof. Tipler doesn’t here get into all the details of his identification of the cosmological singarity with God (likely due to space considerations), focusing mainly on the definition of God as being the uncaused first cause, a definition held by all the Abrahamic religions. Yet...

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Dancing Under the Ugandan Skies: A Triumph of Storytelling

2009-03-25
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Over the past few years I have had the privilege to have known a native Ugandan missionary named Mike Wangolo. He is the leader of a team of Africans called Afri-Tendo (http://www.thrustministries.org/) who make periodic trips to the United States to witness to Americans through native songs and dances. During his travels he has...

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