This page exists because people are down on what they are not up on. When people do not accept certain things, it is not necessarily out of stupidity or hostility. Rather, it is because they lack information, or they have been alienated by an improper presentation of this information. As a Christian and a Libertarian, I am all too aware of this. This is unfortunate, because both Christianity and libertarianism have such positive messages.

Many libertarians reject Christianity because they have been led to believe that Christian faith cannot be grounded in reason or secular evidence, or that Christianity is a means of coercion and social control.

Many Christians reject libertarianism because they have been led to believe that God mandates a socialist economic regime, or that those behaviors which the Bible condemns must therefore be prohibited by the secular state.

The Fountain of Truth exists to dispel the many myths which surround Christianity and libertarianism. This page will be updated regularly with new material by yours truly, Doug Newman, as well as relevant resources from around the internet. This page may not always tell you want you want to hear, but it will tell you what you need to know.

I close with two quotations. The first comes from a very active Libertarian, who once remarked that, "There may be two libertarians in the world who agree on everything, but I am certainly not one of them." The second is the denominational motto of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church: "In the essentials unity, in the nonessentials liberty, and in all things charity." I am not arrogant enough to think that I speak for either the entire libertarian movement, or for all Christians.

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Freely Speaking: Essays by Doug Newman

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