The Smith-Suprynowicz Test

One of many great thought probes into the pursuit of liberty fully duplicated below –

The Smith-Suprynowicz Test
(Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 2008-06-29 18:25)

L. Neil Smith at The Libertarian Enterprise – I remember reading this idea in Vin’s and/or Neil’s writings, but I’d never heard it described as the Smith-Suprynowicz Test before. Good one to remember. I pass. [tle]

Quote:
Would [politician who claims to support freedom] support the right of a nine-year-old girl to walk into a hardware store and, without signing anything or producing identification of any kind, pay cash for a submachinegun, several hundred rounds of ammunition, and a supply of morphine? If he wouldn’t, then whatever he’s in favor of, it isn’t freedom.

There is the truth of oppression suggested here and there is also query into what measure of faith should be given to authoritarian B.S.
Now, what would a professing Christian have to say?
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Just a Start

This may take a while to feel out … (10/12/09)
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(11/2/09) No sooner than I think I can start with putting thought to text,
I get writer’s block and flounder in how to proceed. It is like a mental
saddling up to ride off in all directions at once. Sometimes the thought
work is just slow for me. Sorry. I will not likely ever be fast in posting
or prolific since I watch and read and live under so much and various
diversions and obligations. Welcome to modern living self …

My objective in this blog is to explore the principles and pragmatics of
liberty as a primary emphasis with a sense of how they are sourced in the
sovereignty of “Truth” anchored in a faith reality.

The term “Theopraxy” came to mind and turns up in web search with listings for a book written by Michael Benedikt titled:

God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy

One review notes Benedikt’s 7 tenets which begin with notions that –

1. God is not a person or thing or principal or spirit. God is activity of a certain sort: the free doing of good, where by “good” we mean that which preserves, honors, or promotes all forms of life.
2. God is not the Creator. Nor is God all-powerful or omniscient. God is the newest and weakest “force” in the universe, a human production, even as God -good doing- produces humaneness in turn.

I am not yet ready to surrender “God” to recapitulation as a mere
“activity” of “human production”. I may have to come up with a term
other than “theopraxy”, even though the root meaning falls in line with
my intended emphasis for this blog.

I will have to add Benedikt’s book to my reading list for further study.

Wind
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