it's too tough to be a libertarian when it comes to anti-discrimination law, given how much flak one is liable to take over it. So he'll side with left-liberals even though that's completely incompatible with his stated principles.
He sups in happy concord with supporters of the most egregiously unjust wars, but his blood boils in moral outrage at someone who told an off-color joke 25 years ago.
It's easy to be a "free thinker" when you're making fun of Christians from "flyover country", because they'll generally keep going to your shows and have no leverage in getting your contract terminated. Not so easy when it comes to making fun of blacks screaming "racism"
Unless he's changed he used to defend Christians. It's one of the reasons some liberals considered him different. He would say the vast majority are good people and misunderstood by Hollywood.
A good name for this school of thought is Regime Libertarianism. The modifier identifies the means they choose to bring about their view of what constitutes freedom. It identifies the target audience of their urgings and pleadings. It identifies the institution that they believe to be the first condition in the advance of civilization. It spells out precisely where their ultimate loyalties lie. Thus do all plans for freedom come down to redirecting the attentions of power but not uprooting it altogether.
He's (or was) a Regime Libertarian:
It's easy to be a "free thinker" when you're making fun of Christians from "flyover country", because they'll generally keep going to your shows and have no leverage in getting your contract terminated. Not so easy when it comes to making fun of blacks screaming "racism"
Unless he's changed he used to defend Christians. It's one of the reasons some liberals considered him different. He would say the vast majority are good people and misunderstood by Hollywood.
I remember him being a mainstay in New Atheism in the early 00s. Think he even did a Bullshit episode on Christianity.
Yeah he's an atheist but he wasn't edgelord atheist.
All atheists are edgelord atheists if you dig enough.
Yea. Him and Glenn Beck used to have good discussions
Penn just said in the article he wished everyone would believe in Christianity more than what happens now.
Depending on the subtext, he might be digging at Christians for not behaving how he thinks they should.
I think he was giving credit to Christianity as a unifying framework, but yes he is an atheist. He is not retarded tho, so I like him.
That's a good phrase, never heard it before. I especially liked the "His magazine..." part.
It's a favorite phrase of Lew Rockwell, who as far as I can tell coined it in this 2005 article.