I’m always struck by the parallels between Christianity and a free, libertarian society.

Christ gives us freedom to follow his footsteps and be better people, not through forced compliance.

A person who is poor can be given free welfare and never better himself, or he can be given opportunity to choose a job, work hard, and become stronger to support himself.

A person who struggles with addiction can have that addiction outlawed, but it won’t heal the person or fully prevent the person from being consumed by the addiction if he doesn’t want to change. But he can confront the addiction and overcome it with his own strength once he does.

We can worry about our own personal freedoms and only concern ourselves with persecution when it comes for us. Or we can sacrifice ourselves and our own comfort so that we provide a better world for those after us.

Christ really is the model for society.