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A couple of weeks ago some of the very hip were celebrating Christmas at the movies, dragging their kids to a fantasy in which the good children take on an evil empire called the Magisterium originally intended to look very much like the Roman Catholic Church, though the filmmakers decided it would be more profitable to blur the likeness more than a bit. The movie was an expensive flop, and deserved to be. It's one thing to insult a major world religion -- it happens all the time. It's quite another to insult your audience, all of your audience equally, by acting like you're ashamed of your real convictions. Especially when the issues of the Church and the Enlightenment are very real even now.

About a month and a half before that the real Church held up for public admiration and imitation a man who had been for many years under the suspicion of the real Magisterium, or at least what used to be called the Inquisition, a man whose love of liberty, and intellectual acumen in making the case for freedom, were so intense that he had recently won the praise of The Freeman, a journal of opinion more libertarian than, well, than Ron Paul.

As they used to say at the Stadium, and probably still do, You can't tell the players without a scorecard.

If freedom interests you (and it should), or the Christian faith (I hope it does), give us a little click here, and feel free to leave a comment if you like.

http://www.takimag.com/site/article/blessed_libertarian/

Cheers

Frank