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I am going to attempt to make the case for 'Christian Libertarianism.'

As most of the readers of this blog ought to know, I am a Roman Catholic. As such, I have certain beleifs about God, morality, and the way things ought to be done. For starters, I beleive abortion and contraception to be grave moral evil. I also believe that people who don't choose to believe in God, recieve the Sacraments and exhibit a moral lifestyle will likely go to Hell after they die. I believe that everyone should be a practicing Roman Catholic as myself and should live a life directed by faith. In general, people should get used to the family life, and should show respect for the Priesthood. People should give charitably even out of their own need to others less fortunate than themselves. I hold these ideals and many more about the way people should behave and society should be organized, but there is one thing that I think is most important and would otherwise go overlooked: It all must be done through free will or it is of no merrit. God demands that we give ourselves freely to Him and coercion is not free. It is for this reason, and this readon above all others, that I am against an authoritarian or populist government.

Thus ends the first portion of this case I will continue it a little later.