The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism

Part VI: “The Axe Laid Unto the Root of Trees”:

Market Anarchy as Effective Reform

In Part VI, we take a look at secularism's singular failure: education. It is ironic that secularism's greatest failing should also be its chiefest strength. Atheism spreads by means of books and philosophy in the marketplace, and it generally requires a solid educational framework and a willingness to learn. So why have secularists thrown all of their stock into a failing and incredibly expensive public education system? Just privatize education, push profitable education with a focus upon core grammar, logic, history, and science, and have open discussions in the classroom.

The benefit of privatized education is that one can discriminate against ideas that one does not want in the classroom; or else to allow for free and open discussions without fear of a need for "equal representation" of ideas in the classroom. If atheists and secularists were to join together and put stock in privatized secular education (outside of the tax structure), secularism would spread like wildfire and leave behind the dusty and wasteful platform of public education--which, like most State-engineered programs, was actually introduced by Christian socialists looking to reintroduce religious establishment by the backdoor. It was never true that public education was a platform that could efficiently push education and pedagogy with any kind of reliability and effectiveness compared to privatized education.

But in order to do that, we must first divorce education from the State and push for a tax-free education market.

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Snoozing on Sam Harris (Episode 01)

"Trump is Uniquely Fit for an Unfit Presidency"

A cure-all to post-depression narrative spinning, shoddy recaps, and romantic fables. Trump bought the presidency. Hillary was an incorrigible candidate and a war criminal who was responsible for almost everything that moral humans deplore. And the rest, they say, is history.

Or is it?

Put that snooze on pause...give us a listen...and then put this election behind you. We have four more years of this, and hopefully Hillary is a bygone nightmare.

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Snoozing on Sam Harris (Episode 01)

"Trump is Uniquely Fit for an Unfit Presidency"

A cure-all to post-depression narrative spinning, shoddy recaps, and romantic fables. Trump bought the presidency. Hillary was an incorrigible candidate and a war criminal who was responsible for almost everything that moral humans deplore. And the rest, they say, is history.

Or is it?

Put that snooze on pause...give us a listen...and then put this election behind you. We have four more years of this, and hopefully Hillary is a bygone nightmare.

The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 5)

"Trading out Theism for Statism"

In Part 5, we take a look at the legacy of the 20th Century's "Progress" towards erecting all-powerful states in the pattern of the medieval Church's social architecture. The 20th Century will likely go down in history (if the 21st Century finally sees the end of that era, and not its continuation) as the century of Socialism. And we will reflect upon the popular spread of the destructionist mindset and wonder how secular societies could have managed to outstrip the barbarities of the medieval world in the socialist wars throughout the globe to erect something worse--the divinely-appointed State.

In this section, we will discuss the intellectual trends that assisted the development of the Secular Welfare State, or, the Secular Church, through the spread of socialism and the drive for international secular humanism.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 5)

"Trading out Theism for Statism"

In Part 5, we take a look at the legacy of the 20th Century's "Progress" towards erecting all-powerful states in the pattern of the medieval Church's social architecture. The 20th Century will likely go down in history (if the 21st Century finally sees the end of that era, and not its continuation) as the century of Socialism. And we will reflect upon the popular spread of the destructionist mindset and wonder how secular societies could have managed to outstrip the barbarities of the medieval world in the socialist wars throughout the globe to erect something worse--the divinely-appointed State.

In this section, we will discuss the intellectual trends that assisted the development of the Secular Welfare State, or, the Secular Church, through the spread of socialism and the drive for international secular humanism.

The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 4)

"Pick Your Poison: Religion or the State?"

In Part 4 of The Spirit of Market Anarchy, we evaluate the shortsighted goals of the secular statists like Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Annie Laurie Gaylor, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation in their advocacy for plans to "TAX THE CHURCH." This is, in its outline, perhaps the worst idea that atheists could espouse, since religious freedom, as shown in Part 3, is tax rebellion and the result of laissez-faire, and not just a superficial "feeling" of metaphysical freedom. The big government New Atheists get drawn into the trap of this horrendous idea because they advocate the "pay your fair share" principle of Welfare Statism, and thus have abandoned logic, economic calculation, and denotations of freedom.

As I argue, there is nothing better calculated to create religious strife and religious intrusion into government than any plan to tax the church. The more that government gets into religion, the more that religion gets into government. It's the natural byproduct of taxation/representation. Those who are taxed get represented.

Once again, atheism and religious freedom are best served by INCREASES in economic freedom and the diminution of taxes, not in decreases in economic freedom.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 3.2)

The "Secular Origins" Myth vs. Laissez-Faire (continued)

In the conclusion to Part III, we recap the 1790 Hamilton Assumption Plan, the public bond scheme (the American Rothschild Formula), and the history of disestablishment in America over two centuries of constitutional dispute.

What we will discover is that laissez-faire is the principle of liberty of conscience that secured religious freedom. In particular, religious liberty in America was always tied to an anti-tax and anti-state ideology that was more libertarian in character than it was either constitutionalist or progressive. it was not a governmental principle of secularism that freed the American people from church establishment.

Herein we will cover the major supreme court cases, the changes in state constitutions, the conflicts of culture, and the institutional changes in American Christianity, which impacted the development and implementation of the First Amendment over time.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 3.1)

The "Secular Origins" Myth vs. Laissez-Faire

In Part 3, I take on the idea that the United States Constitution was an agent of "secularism" or of religious freedom and the disestablishment of churches throughout the United States. Not only is this idea ahistorical and incorrect, it is also an ethical doctrine of secular statism that serves the statist religion with an article of faith. Taking away that article of faith and getting to the root of the Constitution's ratification troubles much of the Progressive mindset.

In Part 3, therefore, I provide an austrolibertarian class-conflict view of the historical milieu in which the Constitution was ratified, in which the Articles of Confederation was overthrown by a secret cabal, and in which northeastern states sought to socialize their Revolutionary War debts by inviting slaveholding states into the pool of collected taxes--under a new Federal tax machine--in order to lessen their own self-inflicted inflationary nightmare by preying upon the economic power of the southern slave plantations and conceding principles of liberty and freedom in order to reach that compromise over slavery and disestablishment. The Southern slaveholding states were notably absent of established churches, while the most indebted states--Massachusetts and Connecticut--who maintained powerful established churches and objected to slavery on principle, were willing to sacrifice individual rights for the maintenance of the establishment's status quo.

In preparing a praxeological sketch of the era, I delve into an analysis of how the United States Constitution was ratified to serve government debt speculators at the cost of anti-state and pro-limited-government individualists (Anti-Federalists), and how the American State rose out of the Rothschild Formula. Far from being a libertarian document, the Constitution was explicitly a centralizing document that overthrew the more libertarian-minded Articles of Confederation.

This is historical revisionism at its best and most subversive.

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The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part 3.1)

The "Secular Origins" Myth vs. Laissez-Faire

In Part 3, I take on the idea that the United States Constitution was an agent of "secularism" or of religious freedom and the disestablishment of churches throughout the United States. Not only is this idea ahistorical and incorrect, it is also an ethical doctrine of secular statism that serves the statist religion with an article of faith. Taking away that article of faith and getting to the root of the Constitution's ratification troubles much of the Progressive mindset.

In Part 3, therefore, I provide an austrolibertarian class-conflict view of the historical milieu in which the Constitution was ratified, in which the Articles of Confederation was overthrown by a secret cabal, and in which northeastern states sought to socialize their Revolutionary War debts by inviting slaveholding states into the pool of collected taxes--under a new Federal tax machine--in order to lessen their own self-inflicted inflationary nightmare by preying upon the economic power of the southern slave plantations and conceding principles of liberty and freedom in order to reach that compromise over slavery and disestablishment. The Southern slaveholding states were notably absent of established churches, while the most indebted states--Massachusetts and Connecticut--who maintained powerful established churches and objected to slavery on principle, were willing to sacrifice individual rights for the maintenance of the establishment's status quo.

In preparing a praxeological sketch of the era, I delve into an analysis of how the United States Constitution was ratified to serve government debt speculators at the cost of anti-state and pro-limited-government individualists (Anti-Federalists), and how the American State rose out of the Rothschild Formula. Far from being a libertarian document, the Constitution was explicitly a centralizing document that overthrew the more libertarian-minded Articles of Confederation.

This is historical revisionism at its best and most subversive.

The Spirit of Market Anarchy: A Critique of New Atheism's Secular Statism (Part II)

In the conclusion to Part II of our investigation into the American separation of church and state through the progress of market secularism, we endeavor to outline Parts IV and V of the ensuing argument. The outline is necessary, since in Part III of our argument we will be taking head-on a complex analysis of the social and economic conditions of the monetary crisis in the 1770s and 1780s, which resulted in the ratification of the Constitution and passage of the Bill of Rights to appease the southern states. The central thesis of that chapter is to show the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause in its true light, since how religious freedom is preserved is certainly in the long-run interests of America's atheist population. In order to be able to grasp the conflicts of that time, which were political, economic, and cultural, we must first cleanse the palate of contemporary political discourse and prepare the mind for a wertfrei analysis of economic reality.

So in this conclusion to Part II, we will enter into the political realm in order to canvas a true picture of the economico-politico establishment in order to highlight how that establishment has co-opted previous drives for religious establishment in the construction of a Welfare State.

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