I remembered what I wanted to ask. Yippee 🥳
Capitalists and libertarians talk about a free market and private property and small government that DOES NOT INTERFERE.
If you pray to a god. ANY GOD. You are asking for intervention. You are asking for direct personal intervention in an individual life.
HOW DO THESE 2 IDEAS MESH
#asknostr #bitcoin #god
Prayer for divine intervention is fundamentally different from advocating for state intervention. it acknowledges a higher authority while maintaining the principles of voluntary interaction and personal responsibility that are central to Austrian economic thought of no gov intervention and self individual sovereignty and productivity.
But they are the same concept. You’re asking for intervention to change your life. Whether you rely on the govt or whether u rely on god. You’re still asking for intervention. I’m struggling to see the difference.
Having said that, I do pray but is that a sign of my own weakness.
Many Libertarians hold their political beliefs for purely ethical reasons. In other words, they are perfectly fine with being complete moochers, so long as the individual people they are mooching off of consented.
What they mean is that government shouldn't interfere WITH THEM. As soon as they start getting fucked over by something, won't someone please help them?! They'll never admit it, but they're either dishonest or they haven't thought it through. They're effectively asking for a de facto oligarchy.
Well I'm an atheist, so jot that down. Secondly, most gods do not require or expend taxes, so recieving assistance from such a god probably wouldn't violate anyone's Libertarian principles.
Tithing is definitely a thing in a lot of the major religions, at least. Just how mandatory it is varies by region, denomination, time period, etc., but I imagine there's almost always at least some non negligible social pressure to pay tithes.
And if society forces that on God's behalf then that's immoral, even for a religious Libertarian who already sacrifices for their God and religion. So long as your tithe isn't going to some other guy a Libertarian should be fine with it.
