This post is interesting to me, not for the subject matter (re: “right wing anarchism”) but for the stance toward any issue involving how we should live and what we should believe. To be more pointed: I think there is a really easy parallel between the debate over libertarian ideology (and whether ideology is a good thing) and the sort of exegetical and theological debates that occur among Machen’s warrior children.

How do we treat people who disagree with us about 1) what a doctrinal confession states, 2) what is the most healthy aspect of a common heritage, or 3) what the Bible actually teaches? Are they mistaken? Are they evil?

(The fact that there parallels obtain between libertairan disputes and Evangelical inter-church controversies in America could arguably be interpreted as a dire state of affair for the American Evangelical Church. But I’m not going to comment one way or the other.)