Grand Pooh-bahs and High Priests

Religious Libertarians

We had to hoot with laughter over this one: Peter Cresswell, high-priest of libertarianism, has deigned to declaim libertarian Ron Paul.  The Grand Pooh-bah of the Orthodox Libertarian Church has pronounced that Paul is not an orthodox libertarian.  He is a sectarian libertarian, holding views and opinions that no true believer would dare hold.

Now, to be a true member of the true church of libertarianism you have to bow five times a day towards the last known resting place of Ayn Rand.  [For our readers not familiar with the wonderful attributes of the Goddess, we have posted a couple of times on her holy attributes, here and here.]  Paul does not bow and worship.  Therefore, he is not even an apostate--one who once genuinely believed, but then departed from the true faith.  He is a wolf in sheep's clothing. 

Paul's heretical belief?
  He apparently rejects  the Jeffersonian principle of a "wall of separation" between religion and government.  Whoa.  No doubt Paul, being a strict constitutional constructionist would argue that the US Constitution does not at all call for a separation of religion and government.  Neither the framers in general, nor Jefferson in particular, called for such a separation.  Jefferson wanted a highly religious government: he was, of course, a staunch Deist.  But don't let these subtleties get in the way of an interdiction of ex-communication from Grand Pooh-bah Cresswell. 

Moreover, Paul is a strong anti-abortionist.  Clearly the man is not Randian.  Ayn Rand proclaimed the great Aristotelian distinction between "potentiality" and "actuality".  The potential is not real.  The unborn baby is not an actual person; it is a mere potential person.  Therefore, abort at will.  Rand herself did.  And when the Goddess speaks, well then, it must be true. 

And to cap it all off, Ron Paul is a creationist.  Now at this point, Cresswell is at risk of exploding in holy wrath.  But he skilfully deflects his rising jealousy for the Name of libertarianism by resorting to mockery. 

In addition, he is a Creationist—a point of view disqualifying the holder from intelligent discussion of, well, virtually everything.

Well, that's it then.  Case dismissed.  Paul is an idiot, not a Libertarian.  Now, just before we slink off into shameful silence under the scourge of Cresswell's holy scorn let's recall that Grand Pooh-bah Cresswell is an evolutionist.  Yup.  One of those hyper-intelligent rationalists who believe in a random cosmos, yet clings to the notion that intelligent discussions not only can be had, but are meaningful.  Whoa.  What a religion.  Clinging to a cork of rationality whilst bobbing on a sea of stochasticity.  And you thought you could have an intelligent discussion with this guy!   

In the end, one can do no more than bow before Goddess Rand, lost in wonder, love, and praise.  Now, that's true Libertarianism.  It's just as well there are believers and high priests like Cresswell to keep it all pure.