Following the broad sweep of history and answering the questions:
What is true?
What is important?
What, now, shall we do?
Biblical Worldview - whatnow2do

Home of …
@worldviewprism
@Hiswordspoken
@whatnow2do

Ordered Liberty

Democracy and liberty are entirely different things.* America’s organizing principle was Ordered Liberty not democracy. And as we noted yesterday, it is not democracy that dies in the darkness. It is liberty. Democracy is simply an incidental causality.

Liberty is born of the unalienable freedom endowed to us by our Creator. It is founded on moral precepts and maintained through truth and vigilance. Liberty allows the fruits of freedom to flourish. Freedom in all aspects of life, including speech, worship, education, medicine, the arts, and economics.

Ordered Liberty is the ideal Christian economic creed. It acknowledges the risks of consumerism and competition and mitigates them with a moral culture rather than state regulation.**

Ordered Liberty, and its companion, free market capitalism, are certainly not perfect. They are, however, the best system compared to all the others. It’s not even close. They have brought the greatest good to the greatest number of people in the history of mankind.

Freedom. Liberty. Whether Christian or otherwise, how can we not stand in defense?

*Nor can democracy be defined as democratic socialism. This is simply a Neo-Marxist shell game.
**Adapted, Michael Novak (1933 – 2017)

Return to home page.

Related Posts

Chivalry

What chivalry is not: some guy holding a door open for a woman. What chivalry is: a man of prowess and faith performing noble deeds

On Joy and Peace /2

“For the Believer, peace is joy resting, and joy is peace dancing. Not only does our hope become faith, but our faith buds and blossoms

On Joy and Peace /1

God extends an amazing invitation and promise to us through His prophet Isaiah. Be encouraged by these words today: “Come to me with your ears

A Sabbath Song

It is fitting and proper to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to His name. Nothing is quite like praying God’s Word