The Hot Air Machine

Good afternoon, everyone. I’d just like to share with you an article of mine that I’ve published through the Libertarian Christian Institute . With Election Day less than two weeks past the topics of voting, civic duty, and a Christian’s role in worldly affairs have become relevant. The common Christian view on these matters is expressed by Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress: “God has given Christians in democratic countries a unique way to ‘salt’ the culture that Christians in other times and places did not have.” In my article I critique this common view and argue that a Christian’s true duty is not to the State but to God, which leaves no room for voting. You can find and read my article here . Enjoy!  

  SOMETHING I’ve seen socialists groan and complain about repeatedly, one of many things they find an issue with, is wage labor. They consider it coercion, theft, or slavery for someone to render their manpower to another in exchange for money. In the most recent iteration of this complaint that I have laid eyes on it went something like this: “Having to work for hours every week to barely make ends meet is slavery!” Now, there is a lot that could be said. First, we could attack the umbrella that these types of complaints fall under. That umbrella is a general abhorrence of having to work for one’s living. They are desperate for Marx’s post-scarcity society wherein we see “[t]he free development of individualities…which then corresponds to the artistic, scientific etc. development of the individuals in the time set free, and with the means created, for all of them[,]” or, i.e., a bunch of free time for people to sit around and fart around. The psychological drawbacks of excess leis