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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (28306)	9/8/2006 6:41:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541180

If you no longer accept the vision that you probably don't believe you will burn in hell for not doing so. Certainly you aren't directly taking orders and performing labor under compulsion. I suppose those that believe in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity, and believe that you will burn in hell if you don't follow its precepts, and who don't like the precepts, but follow them anyway solely because they fear burning in hell if they don't, could be considered to be slaves in their own mind. But I'm not sure how numerous that exact group is, and they could still be politically libertarian. For those who think the precepts are ok, they could believe that we should have as much liberty as possible from man's imperfect law, but not from "God's perfect law". If they try to impose "God's perfect law" with earthly force than they couldn't be libertarians, but they could believe that such justice (at least in cases where no one is attacked, abused, or defrauded, or in other words such cases where even a strong libertarian would see a role for government justice) should only be handled directly by God, presumably "in the next life".