: About Me

My passion is really ideas more than it is actually writing, but I find that most people would rather talk about the weather than the ideas that are most important to us all. I love good conversations, but I rarely find them. So, I write. It's sometimes my only opportunity to discuss ideas I think are important.

The most important idea in the world to me is the concept of a savior coming to earth to show us God. It is my passion for this idea that influences everything I write.

I use to try to be strictly intellectual, but I have found the best things in life don't always make sense. I now love unintellectual ideas. They really make more sense to me because I have found that life rarely proceeds in a logical fashion. There are so many surprises. It's these surprises that I'm chasing and trying to understand. They have become the most rational ideas I've ever pondered.

Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Should charity be voluntary or compelled?

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"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." -Benjamin Franklin If a poor person were to hold a gun to a rich person's head and take their money, was the rich man being charitable or being robbed? Obviously, he was being robbed because he did not freely part with his finances. Why then can the government take money from the rich, with the threat of imprisonment, and then redistribute that money however they see fit? Are not taxes, unless used for the good of everyone being taxed, the government's way of legalizing robbery? The only t...

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