Yes Ralph. I agree with "I feel it is crucial that politics and religion are kept apart". I recently saw a post from a Canadian who said "Conservatives - usually those with no faith to draw upon themselves - at their core just want the Christian version of Sharia law." Provocative, I agree, but there is a kernel of truth in it.
Yes Ralph. I agree with "I feel it is crucial that politics and religion are kept apart". I recently saw a post from a Canadian who said "Conservatives - usually those with no faith to draw upon themselves - at their core just want the Christian version of Sharia law." Provocative, I agree, but there is a kernel of truth in it.
In a pluralist society, the answer is JSM's Harm Principle and the NAP. As Liberty Itch writer Jonathan Cole wrote "The freedoms libertarians wish to secure and safeguard for all individuals to develop their own world views is one of the unheralded virtues of their ideology."
And in the end, as Prof Cole stated in a different Liberty Itch article, "Religious freedom is poorly understood in Australia. This has a lot to do with the fact that it is not really a freedom per se, so much as a collection of more fundamental individual freedoms with which people are much more familiar: freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of assembly."
Libertarianism keeps clear of matters spiritual. All it claims is that those freedoms which make upi religious freedom be protected.
Yes Ralph. I agree with "I feel it is crucial that politics and religion are kept apart". I recently saw a post from a Canadian who said "Conservatives - usually those with no faith to draw upon themselves - at their core just want the Christian version of Sharia law." Provocative, I agree, but there is a kernel of truth in it.
In a pluralist society, the answer is JSM's Harm Principle and the NAP. As Liberty Itch writer Jonathan Cole wrote "The freedoms libertarians wish to secure and safeguard for all individuals to develop their own world views is one of the unheralded virtues of their ideology."
And in the end, as Prof Cole stated in a different Liberty Itch article, "Religious freedom is poorly understood in Australia. This has a lot to do with the fact that it is not really a freedom per se, so much as a collection of more fundamental individual freedoms with which people are much more familiar: freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of assembly."
Libertarianism keeps clear of matters spiritual. All it claims is that those freedoms which make upi religious freedom be protected.