Edward Coplin

The Venn diagram between people who think you should get fired for using the R word and people who think you should be able to euthanize your child if it has Down syndrome is almost a circle

@johnandrewwords I apologize if I didnt understand your post. I think James is wrong in his second premise. So if you also think that: huzaah!

@EdwardCoplin6 First, I’ve read a ton of Rothbard. I come from the “Gary North” school of theonomy. I’ve also read more than my fair share of Mises, Hayek, and others. I’m just not sure how what you’re saying is relevant. I know ancient Israel wasn’t a modern nation state.

Two things about this. First, this conflates the ground of a right with its scope. Imago dei establishes that humans ought to have liberty while OT law regulates how that liberty is ordered in a particular covenantal and civic polity. Consider the right and value of human life, likewise rooted in the Imago dei. Yet, this right is also regulated by God’s law with the death penalty and is not “absolute.” Second, and more basically, who actually defends absolute religious liberty? Virtually no serious theorist does. Rights by definition operate within a web of complementary and often competing rights and duties. Free speech doesn’t cover perjury. Property rights don’t cover owning hard drugs or certain forms of explicit images. The rights we have over our own bodies don’t cover harming others. The syllogism refutes a straw man, not the actual imago dei argument.

@johnandrewwords The Mosaic law didn't violate religious freedom or regulate liberty in the political sense because it didnt establish a political entity i.e. a state. The Mosaic law provides case law for private judges in a stateless society. "Civic" =/= "political"

@johnandrewwords My bad. I'm saying you and James both have bad political theorybecause you haven't read Rothbard. And you're bringing your bad theory into your interpretation of scripture.

@johnandrewwords Are you disagreeing with or explaining to me the reformed distinction between civil, religious, and moral? It feels like God made the Mosaic system intentionally fuzzy but I think it's clear if you interpret it through the rest of scripture.

The civil law is also moral and some moral laws had civil jurisdiction. No. Property rights aren’t the basis of all of civil Mosaic law. At least not any law that had a civil penology. One could argue those some aren’t “truly” or “purely” civil. But that’s when these distinction start to get fuzzy.

@johnandrewwords The civil law grants religious liberty. The moral law doesn't.

@johnandrewwords Youre conflating the civil law with the moral and religious. The civil law of Moses was based completely on property rights.

@BobMurphyEcon And the girl with you wore a poodle skirt.

back in my day when you went bowling somebody had to keep score

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One of the things I respect most about Dave Rubin is that he knows nothing about anything and doesn't even care. He went into a debate with 30 people and did zero prep whatsoever. Awe inspiring ineptitude.

@CptAncapistan You've brought disgrace to all of us!!!

I did not intentionally put that new line in an awkward place.

Scrolling through the comments to see the damage the Libertarian Party has done to the perception of libertarianism.

Modern professional ideologues are the rare birds who get to have their cake and eat it too; they are viewed with esteem & admiration by the ideological masses simply for being… for speaking. They never have to actually accomplish anything. The reason the “anti-zionist” movement is so pathetic and weak is because it is lead by ideologically constipated rubes like this. AIPAC doesn’t GAF what you believe outside of: Do you support Israel? That’s why they win.

@NickJFuentes "First they came for Richard Spencer, and I protested. Then they came for Cenk and I said nothing because he sucks. And then they came for me."

I don’t remember Hasan Piker or Cenk Uygur protesting when Jared Taylor, Lauren Southern, or Richard Spencer were denied entry into the UK. They are not martyrs, they literally created this precedent for all of us.

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@johnandrewwords @PCAByFaith Thanks for clarifying. Who are the most well known proponents of kinism? This is not my area of interest so I'm still learning the basics.

@EdwardCoplin6 @PCAByFaith Let me clarify, then. Kinism is heretical and most proponents of kinism have consistently shown through their words and ideas that they are children of perdition. This doesn’t mean everyone who uses a kinist argument is a heretic, but they are playing with dangerous ideas.

The guy who thought the excellent and biblically rich lament from @PCAByFaith leaders over the unjust deaths of Black Americans back in 2020 was “nothing less than kneeling before the golden statue of Critical Theory” is a big fan of the kinist-adjacent (the charitable interpretation) political theology book? Shocking. It must be a huge coincidence that the devout critics of racial reconciliation and racial diversity as well as the biggest fans of Southern slaveholders are also supporters of the book co-written by a guy who wrote that interracial marriage is “relatively sinful”, co-hosted a podcast with one of the most heinous racists I’ve seen on this app, endorsed that same racist’s kinist book, and considers genetic racial similarities “crucial” to his concept of the national good. It’s just a big coincidence. If you’re a fool.

@johnandrewwords @PCAByFaith ... Christ. They werent sincere believers tragically mistaken. They were anti-christ. So unless you think kinists are also children of perdition and no true believers, we shouldn't use Christ's treatment of the Pharisees as a model of how to criticize the church.

@johnandrewwords @PCAByFaith If we can continue to compare kinists in today's church to the Pharisees, I think this will highlight where I disagree with you. The Pharisees were not "in the church." They were the leaders of the true people of God (i.e. the church) but they were leading the flock to reject...