(November 6, 2014 at 5:01 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 6, 2014 at 4:57 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: You...are aware many atheists are also Libertarians, right? Which is like, about as anti-communist as you can get. I don't know how you're taking our position on one question (whether or not you believe in a God) and then stretching that onto an entire political system.
Not wanting to sound picky. But where do you get the many from?
I'm very Libertarian when it comes to social issues and civil liberties, but I'm certainly not Libertarian when it comes to corporations running unchecked.
I think there's a distinction between social and economic views.
Libertarian is about as descriptive as "Christian" is, it contains a ton of self-labeled people. I'm using Libertarianism as basically "Not communism" to show that his inference of atheism = communism is incorrect.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson