Applied christian "liberty" 101, or how christian-ISM as a power-and-control-seeking ideology, and its INEVITABLE equally benighted off-spring the materialist "culture" of death came to dominate the entire world

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel21.html
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/mural/panel13.html

Plus check out references to the Wetiko disease or mind virus which was originally described in the book Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack Forbes.
Also God Is Red by Vine Deloria.

The Wetiko disease/virus is of course still very much alive.

For the umpteenth time, atheism is not a belief.

As an apologist for Christianity the author has failed spectacularly. The faith is one of history's most repressive ideologies.

Christianity is indeed highly compatible with liberty. But Christianity is quite incompatible with Austrian School economics which uses dubious reasoning and blatantly false assumptions to justify policies which serve the rich at the expense of the poor.

Wow, it would take pages upon pages of posts to debunk all the misconceptions and falsehoods in this article, so I’ll just address the most glaring and fundamental error.

From the article: “This is not the case for the other major religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and New Age as well as Atheism and Humanism.”

Atheism is not a worldview and does not warrant a capital ‘A’, as the author incorrectly types it. It is the rejection of religious claims as unsupported by the evidence, or the lack of belief in a god.

Atheism is a response to a single proposition. It says nothing about where one should go from there or what else they should believe - that will depend entirely on the individual.

An all-round terrible article.

'For the umpteenth time, atheism is not a belief. '

no just totally irrational

mac,
Are you saying that the belief that no deity is real is not a belief?
Or are you claiming that atheism is not the belief that no deity is real?
If the latter, WTF do you think it is? And what proportion of atheists do you think agree with you?

Christianity is not in any way a repressive ideology. Repression has existed since (and probably before( ancient times, and Christianity hasn't always stopped leaders from being repressive - though many times it has.

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runner,
Atheism is not totally irrational. It is a reasonable (though not inevitable) result of making incorrect assumptions. Compare and contrast that with Austrian School economics where both the assumptions and the reasoning are incorrect.