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This is how strange a free market approach to healthcare looks to a Canadian like me

July 18, 2017 by Randal

Imagine a world in which all citizens were not extended protection by the police. Instead, the government aimed to offer people various tax credits and incentives to buy police protection from private security firms. And as a result, some people were protected by powerful armed militias, others had spotty protection from ill-equipped security guards, and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, Good society, healthcare, politics

Why do conservative Christians think everything is getting worse?

January 20, 2013 by Randal

The answer is simple: eschatology. Eschatology is the doctrine of last things, and most Christian conservatives these days continue to be premillennial in their eschatology. Premillennialism is often described as a pessimistic eschatology, one that expects conditions to get progressively worse until Jesus comes back and establishes his millennial kingdom. (In contrast, postmillennialism is often described […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: eschatology, Good society, justice, premillennialism

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