Christian Economists

I grew up in a house with a focus on Christ but with a “Republican” worldview. When the hit movie “The Matrix” came out in high school, I felt a strong affinity towards its metaphor though I didn’t fully understand it at the time, a feeling like something really was wrong in the world both in a political and religious sense, but I didn’t know what. Upon attending college, I endured a cycle of philosophical thirst for knowledge and awakening, all the while relying heavily on God to provide for me in both the spiritual and the very real physical sense — and when I “entered the world” on my own a few years later, my worldview had undergone a transformation towards independence as well. For a few years, I energetically endorsed Ron Paul and the libertarian/minarchist position, after learning to think critically about such fundamental issues as “rights vs privileges” from modern civil liberties activists such as Michael Badnarik and reading such literature as Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. I also began researching heavily the Austrian theories of economists such as Mises, Hayek, Friedman, and Rothbard, among others. my tat, my plate Eventually I began flirting with anarchism, going back and forth between its morality vs practicality (basically the utilitarianism of statism, though I couldn’t verbalize it as such). I’ve finally reconciled the two and am now proud to officially join the likes of great thinkers such as Leo Tolstoy as a Christian anarchist. Though I picked up a great …