Christians living among the secular world has been problematic since the Old Testament times. It was not unusual for God in the Old Testament to send His people to war in order to wipe out pagan cultures (Numbers 33:51-53; Deuteronomy 2:33-35). When Christians live among non-Christians peace is only attained when total freedom, via laissez faire capitalism, is present. Without total freedom secular ideas are indoctrinated into the Christian worldview, which compromises Biblical truths.

Laissez faire capitalism has never existed before, though the Unites States has come the closest. The US has always been a mixed economy, and mixed economies only go one way: either more capitalist, or more statist. Capitalism is not only Biblical, but it is vital to Christian longevity. Kelly Boggs, a columnist with the Baptist Press, recently ran an article discussing capitalisms Biblical principle. In the article he concluded that capitalism was more Christian than socialism.

In today’s modern society we two major political parties: the Republicans and the Democrats. Being that capitalism is more Biblical, we should ask ourselves which party represents capitalism? The answer is neither of them. Both represent statism. While the Democrats are more statist, the Republicans are right behind them. The two political parties that represent capitalism and the vision of our Founding Fathers are the Libertarian and Constitution Parties.

I think it’s always helpful to remind ourselves that God warned us about having kings (today we have presidents and prime ministers). God warned us we would be drafted into an army, taxed, become slaves, and that the king (government) would be corrupt, by giving handouts to special friends and supporting extensive bureaucracy (1 Samuel 8:6-18 MSG). If we had only listened to God then we wouldn’t be in the shape we’re in today. Nonetheless, we can get back to sound Christian principles by following the Constitution our founders wrote, and live by the philosophy of libertarianism.

Our Constitution is riddled with the religious beliefs that our founding fathers held. “In God We Trust” is engraved and written on our currency and our government buildings. Even with their beliefs our founders wanted religious freedom (which is part of the Southern Baptist belief as well). This, however, brings us to the Christian contradiction #1. Many Christians espouse freedom from religion, yet ask the government to squash the freedoms of non-Christians on things that we deem a sin (i.e. pornography, drugs, prostitution, working on Sundays, etc). We need to remember two things here: 1) it’s not a capitalist governments job to control non-violent social behaviors, and 2) We have the freedom from non-religion. In other words, if we are to be tolerant of other people’s religion (or lack there of) we can’t get mad when they don’t follow Christian doctrine.

We will be discussing eight characteristics of libertarianism. The first is drugs. In a laissez faire capitalistic society all drugs would be legal. Government can never suppress the free market. When they try it turns black (i.e. the black market). The failed alcohol prohibition should be an example of how our drug prohibition will turn out. When alcohol was legalized again all the gangsters went out of business. Likewise, when drugs are legalized all the drug dealers will be out of business. Jeffery Miron shows in his book Drug War Crimes that if drugs were legalized the homicide rate would drop as mush as 75%. Most of inner city gang violence revolves around drug trafficking. Also, countries with legalized drugs have less of a problem than we do, because a drug dealer will sell to an infant, while the businessman has more to loose. This is the reason that most high school kids say it’s easier to get marijuana than alcohol. Not only would there be less deaths, we would also save $33 billion a year currently used to fight the failed drug war, and our healthcare cost would go down, because you wouldn’t have to see a doctor just to get your prescription filled. Congressman Ron Paul stated, “When government tries to protect people from themselves it becomes a tyrannical state.” Dr. Paul reaffirms to us that the War on Drugs is not compatible with laissez faire capitalism, which brings us to Christian contradiction #2. Most Christians admit that it’s not a sin to drink, just get drunk. Why not other substances beside alcohol? Marijuana is less intoxicating than alcohol, and even has medical properties (i.e. helps with radiation in cancer patients, eye illnesses, and hunger issues in AIDS patients). If someone wants to smoke marijuana in peaceful privacy, then that should be acceptable. However, like any good Christian we should ask what does the Bible say about this? The Bible says:

Forget about deciding what's right for each other. Here's what you need to be concerned about: that you don't get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. I'm convinced—Jesus convinced me!—that everything as it is in itself is holy. We, of course, by the way we treat it or talk about it, can contaminate it. – Romans 14:13-14 MSG

It’s not what goes into your body that defiles you; you are defiled by what comes from your heart…For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you. – Mark 7:15, 21-23 NLT