The Problem with Atheists

While one does not necessarily need to be a believer in order to be a paleolibertarian, it is my experience that the political priorities of many atheist libertarians are narrow and selfish. That is they don’t really care about defending liberty or building a free society, they simply want to stop the state from taxing THEM and taking away THEIR dope. Since they lack a sense of a natural order guided by a creator they see no purpose in life beyond satisfying their appetites and they tend to view others as a means to an end. In fact, as Murray and Lew pointed out many times in the old RRR, the left libertarian hates the Church as much as (if not more than) he hates the state, since the Church’s role is to act as a moral restraint on his behavior.

The other flaw with many atheist libertarians is they tend toward utopianism, believing that man can create a “free-market” heaven on earth. Like all uptopians, the left libertarian (or libertarian trotskyite) will eventually fall prey to the temptation to use the state to spread their vision, deluding himself that his support of state power is okay because he wants to use the government to “spread freedom.” Hence the left libertarians support of “social uplift” via vouchers at home and the WTO abroad. These libertarian trotskyites will even support war if done to free oppressed people and bring them the joys of Fox News, Internet Porn and Starbucks.

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10:56 pm on December 2, 2003