As I wrote in my last blog post, according to a poll on the Libertarian Party website, most self-identified libertarians in a recent poll are Christians.
Following Christians, the non-religious (including atheists and agnostics) make up the next largest group of liberty lovers.
In fact, those with no religion, which would include atheists and agnostics, accounted for 39 percent of those polled.This is all well and dandy. But the real question is can atheists and agnostics and other non-religious people account for their libertarianism?
However, when you add Catholic, Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, and "Other Christians" together, Christians collectively make up 46 percent of the poll.
Those who identified "Other Christian" made up 24 percent of the poll.
Muslims made up the smallest sliver of the poll, coming in at 1 percent.
Do non-religious libertarians have the proper foundations to ground their libertarianism?
Given their materialism, why should they be libertarians at all? On secular grounds, why should they be libertarians over Marxists? Is it all a matter of preference on the materialistic view?
The best essay that I have read that answers these questions is one I came across earlier this year by Gordan Runyan in his essay "God - the Only Ground for Freedom (or, Why Secular Libertarianism is a Bust)."
Here's a good summary paragraph from the essay:
As I have shown in my book, Resistance to Tyrants, it is only Christianity, with its special revelation, a full Bible breathed out by the one living God, that is capable of supplying the philosophical and moral foundations that will allow human freedom to weather the storms and remain standing. Christianity is the basis for genuine libertarianism. Atheistic libertarianism is the contradiction. It only ever gets anything right by stumbling into a biblical principle now and again. It is the proverbial blind squirrel that manages to accidentally find a few nuts.Read the rest.
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