AHC/WI: Religious Libertarianism

In America, we usually associate the libertarian parties with freedom, civil liberties, and indeterminism. However, it wasn't always this way. According to P. Andrew Sandlin, mature individuals must be permitted maximum freedom under God's will. American blogger Alex Barron also wrote that "I am a libertarian as my Christian faith allows". What if these philosophies managed to gain enough ground to spawn political parties across the globe? What if politicians began to support Christian Values and libertarianism while opposing a large government and foreign intervention. How would this change America and eventually, the world?
 
More frequent depressions and stock market collapses as corporate ambitions are allowed to exceed their grasp more often.
Stock Market crash of 1929 started the Great Depression.
Recessions after 9/11 and 2008 ... would be deeper and more destructive, etc.
 
The problem is that while some right-wing churches have no problem with economic libertarianism, social and especially sexual libertarianism is another matter--and above all, abortion (though in fairness there are also atheistic libertarians who oppose abortion).
 
Aren't certain sections of the Alt-Right something like this? After all, they basically grew out of an alliance between paleoconservatives and paleoliberals - the 1980s/1990s Lew Rockwell-Murray Rothbard connection. If you look at some libertarians (I'm thinking of people like Stefan Molyneux or Hans-Hermann Hoppe here), they sometimes appear to me to be more conservative than actual conservatives.
 
The problem is that while some right-wing churches have no problem with economic libertarianism, social and especially sexual libertarianism is another matter--and above all, abortion (though in fairness there are also atheistic libertarians who oppose abortion).

Even on social and sexual issues regarding government action, within the Calvinist tradition, there's some significant libertarian strains of thought that in a different world.

From the 1920s-30s, J. Gresham Machen and public schools. https://fee.org/articles/j-gresham-machen-a-forgotten-libertarian/

Modern:
http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/tale-two-kingdoms/. Many folks who hold to this view lean heavily libertarian and don't feel threatened by gay marriage as long as pastors of churches aren't forced to marry gay couples (but

Abortion is, as mentioned, the usual exception (but the justification will be political-libertarian - I.e. Destruction of another individual - rather than religious). Those holding this position would say that the religious sphere and that of the state should not be mixed, including by the political leaders.
 
Aren't certain sections of the Alt-Right something like this?
Yes, but the point is to grow them large enough to create an actual political party. Also, the green party is an eco-libertarian party that doesn't have a lot of evangelist Christians.
 
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