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Choice: Why Many Feel Voting Doesn’t Matter

Politics

What comes to mind when we think about choice? Around this time, every other year, we think of voting as a choice. But is it really? For a lot of ...

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Election Day: Voting is The New Christian Sacrament?

Christian Worldview

Just recently Americans celebrated one of the high holy days of our faith. Tens of millions of people took part in it and demonstrations occurred in every state. The airways ...

Voting for Immoral Candidates Isn’t Licensed by Romans 13

Christian Worldview

Is it justifiable to vote for an immoral candidate from a scriptural perspective? Does Romans 13 give you a way out?

Christian Views on Voting: Why Vote at All?

Christian Ethics

Today we begin a new series of posts considering views on voting from different Christian perspectives. We hope you’ll think about these issues carefully, regardless of what you decide. Historically ...

Can Pro-life Christians Vote for a Pro-choice Candidate?

Christian Worldview

Can pro-life Christians vote in good faith for a pro-choice candidate? Richard Mouw of Fuller Theological Seminary, along with other prominent evangelicals seem to think so since, in their view, ...

Jesus is Never on the Ballot! So what?!

Libertarianism

This guest post is by Kollin Fields. Kollin is a Ph.D student in American intellectual history and political philosophy. His essays have appeared at the Libertarian Christian Institute, the Foundation ...

Monday Morning Matrix Meme: Voting

Politics

“Have you voted today?” I remember uttering these words when calling up random, local people on the phone hours before the end of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election. Somehow I ...

Voting as Hiring Ethics

Politics

  Just pretend you are the owner of a business in the process of hiring a sales represenative. As you listen to a potential new hire and assess his qualifications, ...

If You Did Vote, Don’t Complain

Politics

Sometimes people say, “If you didn’t vote, don’t complain.”  Nonsense.  Everyone can complain.  Complaining about pompous politicians and oppressive regulations doesn’t require participation in popularity lotteries.  In fact, if one were ...

What if You Weren’t Allowed to Vote?

Libertarianism

I want to do a brief thought experiment. Despite the implausibility of this scenario, I think it might explain why libertarians should be less pessimistic about the future. So here ...

25 Reasons I Could Never Be Elected

Libertarianism

Today, being the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, is election day. Aside from the fact that I don’t vote, and therefore couldn’t even vote for myself, there are ...

My View of Politics

Christian Ethics

Please remove me from your mailing list, “I’m just totally uninterested in your view of politics,” wrote a former student and friend. I have been described (and dismissed) by some ...

News of the Week, November 5th, 2012 Edition: Elect a Super-Villain to be President?

Politics

Recapping the interesting and significant news, articles, and media of the past few weeks… One of my favorite guys at the Cato Institute, Gene Healy, has a new “sequel” out ...

News of the Week, Sept. 22, 2012 Edition: End the Drug War!

News

Recapping the interesting and significant news and articles of the past week. American Christians should be concerned about drugs not because the drugs themselves harm (some do, and some not ...

Why Government Fails – Public Choice for Everyone

Politics

There are innumerable arguments about the legitimacy and morality of government and its proper scope, all of which are worth exploring.  Public Choice Theory examines an entirely different question than ...

Winner Take All

Libertarianism

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article originally appeared in the March 1965 issue of The Freeman. The ...

A Christian Voter’s Guide

Christian Ethics

This guest post is by Craig White. America is at war, in many faraway lands. By normal definitions, we are now at war in Afghanistan, Iraq (until the troops leave), ...

Theonomy, theology, and voting

Theology

Did this post title turn your head? Did you wonder what this would be about? Me too. Actually, I have been lax about answering some of the Libertarian FAQ Questions ...

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