Author: Cody Libolt

If the United States was truly exceptional, what has happened to it? How did the U.S. fall from its place as the world’s beacon of freedom and individual rights? How did the nation of achievers and owners become the “entitlement state” of looters and moochers?

The United States has been exceptional as the country founded upon a moral idea: individual rights. The founding fathers recognized man’s rights as inalienable. Rights are discovered, not granted.

Previously we looked at John Frame’s scriptural argument that government should offer protection from theft, not be an agent of redistribution. I agree with this vision of justice. Scripture doesn’t support the modern idea of “social justice.”

Here I’m going to summarize theologian John Frame’s views on Christianity and government. It’s helpful to recognize that a respected theologian shares the basics of the view I’m advocating and to see how he derives his view from Scripture. His discussion makes a good starting point to orient us to what Scripture says on the […]

What questions does the free-market view face? Here are the normal objections: •    What will happen to the kids who can’t afford school? •    What about all the poor and aged? How will they survive? •    Isn’t your version of a society rather harsh to the needy? How can we let them suffer?