Here is an interesting article from RELEVANT Magazine regarding the rise of the Christian Libertarian. I have a few thoughts on this. First, I wonder what the actual numbers are? Is this more of a feeling that libertarian thought among young evangelicals is on the rise, or do we have polls that show this? Second, I have to wonder if libertarian thought is on the rise because of the failures of the Moral Majority? Are people beginning to realize that laws will not make people behave the way we want, so just forget it and ‘let every one do what is right in his own eyes’?
The Rise of Christian Libertarianism?
– February 2, 2012
The article touches on this a bit, but I’d argue that, in general, evangelical or fundamental Christians moving towards a libertarian political view has little to do with the failures of the Moral Majority and much more to do with the overall failures of government that grows ever larger, spends ever more, while growing more restrictive of our freedoms.
I’d like to think more people in their twenties and thirties are waking up to the fact that by and large, our parents’ generation has completely screwed us over. They’ve run up the biggest credit card bill in history, have no intention of stopping before their dead, and are leaving us, our kids, and our grandkids to pay the bills. Then they look at who’s running the major American political parties, realize it’s the same group of selfish Baby Boomers, and either drop out all together and embrace the cultural nihilism of of reality TV, or get angry and join the one movement that’s actually starting to take a stand against the excesses of both the Democrat and Republican political establishments.