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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 581 I Respond to a Conservative Christian Critic

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I'm without a guest in this episode, and taking apart yet another critique of libertarianism. Enjoy!

Show notes for Ep. 581

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 581.

0:04.1

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

0:08.9

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.6

Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:16.5

I haven't done an episode on my own in quite a while. So today I am doing exactly that.

0:22.2

I'm going to go through an article that was brought to my attention.

0:25.3

We're going to go through it and respond and overturn misconceptions and have a lot of fun.

0:31.1

I'll tell you about that article in just a minute.

0:32.6

I do want to point out very quickly that my poor friend Yarrow Starak, whose webinar I've been telling you

0:38.1

about, was going to be held today, had to be postponed because the poor guy has food poisoning.

0:43.9

So if you're interested in that webinar where he's going to explain how he uses his blog as an income

0:51.9

source, so in other words, he wants to earn something other than

0:55.1

personal satisfaction from blogging, then you'll want to check it out on Monday instead. Monday,

1:00.7

February 1st, you can sign up at tomwoods.com slash blog webinar, all one word.

1:06.6

Today I want to look at an article that, of course, is linked on the show notes page.

1:12.3

Gosh, you must get so tired of hearing me say that, but I want resources available to people.

1:17.5

So it's going to be there.

1:20.0

Tom Woods.com slash 581.

1:23.7

And it's called The Religious Problem with Libertarianism, and it's by a guy named Bruce Ashford, who is apparently a professor at Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary.

1:36.3

And apparently he's been doing a series on different schools of political thought, and now in the fourth out of the seven, he's arrived at libertarianism.

1:45.9

And I don't think it's a particularly good article, and it doesn't show that he's done a whole lot

1:52.6

of reading in it. He doesn't, for instance, seem to be aware that there is a libertarianism that

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