Comments on: Paul and Christian Reconstructionism http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/01/06/paul-and-christian-reconstructionism/ A First Things Blog Fri, 24 May 2013 03:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: pentamom http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/01/06/paul-and-christian-reconstructionism/comment-page-1/#comment-57229 pentamom Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:59:07 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=38369#comment-57229 Bahnsen’s and Wilson’s comment that there are connections between libertarians and Reconstructionists should never be taken to mean that they are the same thing, or that one is a subset of another. In fact, for the very reasons Mr. Knippenberg explains, they are disjoint sets — at least if the word “libertarian” means what it means.

So there’s sympathy between the Paul camp and Reconstructionists because of shared concerns, but it’s pure Goldbergian hysteria to make that mean that the Paulistas follow a Recon model.

A parallel case might be anti-cronyist conservatives’ sympathies for the *concerns of* the Occupy Movement. Neither side makes common cause with the other, but they do support one another *insofar as* they are addressing that particular concern.

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