I understand that I'm biased, and think that everyone should be a libertarian, but I especially find it rather interesting that many Christians are not.  Many good Christians think that government should be in the business of prohibiting people from doing things that they find immoral, that are really just private choices that they make about how to live their lives.  I'm talking about things like doing drugs, using prostitutes, or having homosexual relationships.  You know... the big three that Libertarians think should be legal, that Republicans generally don't think should be legal.

Having read the Bible a number of times, I know that there are lots of things mentioned that people shouldn't do, and things that people should do.  God tells us how we should live.  And yet, people often times don't live that way.  Given my love for the Constitution, I've also noticed that the Bible doesn't exactly enumerate any rights that people have with God.  There is no freedom of speech, or press, or religion.  But there is one right that God gave to man... free will.

Now why on Earth would God give man free will, and then tell us how we should live?  Why wouldn't God just take the simple route, and hard wire in our minds, and in our souls, how to live?  The world would certainly be a better place.  I mean, take the 1st Commandment... I am the Lord thy God, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.  That is perhaps the most important one, and yet it is also the one that is broken most often.

As usual, God knows something that the rest of us still have a hard time figuring out.  The first commandment is about loving God... and yet God knows that love without the choice not to love is without meaning.  Likewise, living a good moral life, if you have no choice but to do so, has no meaning.  And so God gave us one right... the right to free will.  We have the right to choose to not live as we're supposed to.

And that is the core of libertarian philosophy.  Free will to do with your life as you see fit.  Yes, that means that people may live an arguably immoral life.  But those judgements are not for us to make.  Those are for God to make.  Government's job is not to decide how to live a good moral life.  Those choices are for each individual to make, and reconcile with the consequences they may face in life because of it.

I know I normally don't break into religion on my blog... but it is Sunday after all.  Feel free to drop a dollar in my collection plate if you want.