Men can only be free...if they are Christians who think like Christians

From Doug Wilson, the whole article is tasty meat.

This Era of Obummer

...Here is the reality. Big business likes regulation. Big business likes the state. Big business likes to aggrandize profits, influence, and congressmen. The reason that big business likes all these things is because it gives them access to the one thing that can effectively deal with the one pest of their existence, which is competition. Once they get fat enough to present opportunities to fresh competitors, they are also fat enough to buy congressmen, who will be their legislative hit men. A cozy relationship with the government gives them access to the coercive power of the state....

The interests of big business are therefore not the same as the interests of those who want to create and preserve free markets. In a regulated economy, each new failure (and there is always a new one coming along) is always treated as prima facie evidence for the absolute necessity of doing the next stupid thing. The proposed reform is almost always fixing the previous reform. In this last go round, government intervention (by both the Garble and the Teleprompter) was justified as a national security issue because these entities were "too big to fail." Oh? And how did they get that big? How did they get all swoll up to the point where they were too big to fail? That's right -- they grew to that size in a regulated economy...

And men can only be free if they are Christians. Scratch that. Men can only be free in this regard if they are Christians who think like Christians. Everything goes back to the gospel, and it always goes back to the gospel. But the gospel it goes back to is an expansive gospel, a gospel that gets out into the world and gets its hands dirty. Eventually this gospel will get into the economic assumptions of Christians, and it will teach them how to reject every form of coercion masquerading as compassion.