tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post8511140781599556299..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Atheist Economist vs.Christian Theologian on Minimum Wage LawsRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-27189618428948177792014-05-02T13:02:09.724-04:002014-05-02T13:02:09.724-04:00I always like to insist that any debate with a sta...I always like to insist that any debate with a statist begin with the NAP and our present day and ubiquitous basic laws and rules against murder, theft, rape, assault etc. I then ask the statist: When and how do/did these fail? What problem cannot be solved by currently existing notions of private property, prohibtions against assaults and enforcement of contracts? There is never a response, Bob Roddishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263804608074597937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44168427339346862752014-05-02T12:11:30.807-04:002014-05-02T12:11:30.807-04:00"What is Caesar's? nothing but the guys b..."What is Caesar's? nothing but the guys behind him with razor sharp swords glinting in the sun say otherwise."<br /><br />Exactly. Someone elses hard earned money is NOT Caesar's. PERIOD. End of story. How did it come to be "his"? Well, he got a lot of men to threaten other people with DEATH if they didn't hand it over.<br /><br />God's ministers? Genghis Khan,Mikehttp://www.antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-28222989790868032062014-05-02T10:58:54.716-04:002014-05-02T10:58:54.716-04:00No, the easy-believism "Christians" thin...No, the easy-believism "Christians" think Christianity can be whatever they want it to be. Some even go so far as to throw out the Bible because it contradicts their worldview. At some point, you cease to be a Christian. Even the devil believes in God.<br /><br />Regarding the passage about rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, many a libertarian have mutilated this passage Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-72329814536528156642014-05-02T10:40:19.635-04:002014-05-02T10:40:19.635-04:00Exactly, Heath. Anon, didn't say taxation was...Exactly, Heath. Anon, didn't say taxation was the reason why the state is the church's other god. His point was that it is your god; it's just the one that you choose to serve. <br /><br />"Government leaders are God's ministers (but not God's partners), and so they should be obeyed so long as they don't have you violating God's commands." That makes no Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-87246601299204842022014-05-02T07:42:01.064-04:002014-05-02T07:42:01.064-04:00Like much of Christianity, it can be what ever you...Like much of Christianity, it can be what ever you want it to be "render up to ceasar what is caesar's" What is Caesar's? nothing but the guys behind him with razor sharp swords glinting in the sun say otherwise.Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15417060063126394938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-78689315724752500062014-05-01T21:39:07.626-04:002014-05-01T21:39:07.626-04:00This Orthodox Roman Catholic agrees with the athei...This Orthodox Roman Catholic agrees with the atheist.<br />Godfreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-39159744201170419662014-05-01T20:57:05.569-04:002014-05-01T20:57:05.569-04:00Paying taxes isn't disobeying God's comman...Paying taxes isn't disobeying God's commands. Government leaders are God's ministers (but not God's partners), and so they should be obeyed so long as they don't have you violating God's commands. So I get where you were going with that, but submitting to authorities isn't necessarily idolatry. Where it becomes a problem is when an ordinance is in conflict with God'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-55967483750681062302014-05-01T20:49:32.315-04:002014-05-01T20:49:32.315-04:00Blundell denies that this is the case [that the su...<i>Blundell denies that this is the case [that the supply of labor follows the demand curve) when it comes to the price of labor, and he claims that there are studies which deny this relationship between minimum wage and unemployment.</i><br /><br />Actually, there are no such studies. Blundell would be hard-pressed to present such studies. What there exist is a series of studies that purport to OldMexicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16111465436836633221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-91595656200792551012014-05-01T20:38:18.054-04:002014-05-01T20:38:18.054-04:00I am always up for a good debate, but it looks lik...I am always up for a good debate, but it looks like from reading the highlights that the primary argument of the theologian is to label Block a fundamentalist. What kind of argument is that? So what? That doesn't prove or disprove anything. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-71467143008131481752014-05-01T19:50:09.418-04:002014-05-01T19:50:09.418-04:00Theologians' interpretations are just as terri...Theologians' interpretations are just as terrible regarding the economy as they are about the Bible. No surprise there. These are the same types of people who take a command about nonresistance to evil and turn it into the Just War Theory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-31123555126616813772014-05-01T19:33:16.565-04:002014-05-01T19:33:16.565-04:00Blundell got his head handed to him. LOL!
For bel...Blundell got his head handed to him. LOL!<br /><br />For believing in the demand curve Block is the fundamentalist and you aren't Blundell? Excuse me? You believe in the immaculate conception, something which is IMPOSSIBLE to prove and you call Block a fundamentalist? Are you nuts, pal?<br /><br />Man.....the lengths some fools will go to, eh? Even at the expense of making themselves look Mikehttp://www.antiwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-63382663010691760642014-05-01T19:12:34.313-04:002014-05-01T19:12:34.313-04:00There are only a few Christians that truly that se...There are only a few Christians that truly that serve and believe in the One Almighty God. Many serve or try to serve two gods. The God that they're told to sing to every Sunday, and the one that they're told to pay taxes because of Romans 13.<br /><br />There are only a few true atheists in this world. Dr. Block, Penn Jillette, Christopher Cantwell are some of the examples. All otherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com