That's So Libertarian!

I've been reading the Book of Mormon since I was little, all the time knowing that it was written to help us know what God wants us to know, but only recently have I realized that it is the most libertarian book I've ever read.  Here are a few things I've learned, and believe me, there are a lot more things that can be gleaned from its verses and stories about freedom, liberty, and tyranny.  This is a very small sampling:

Mosiah 11:6: The purpose of taxation is to support the lazy that rule over us.

Mosiah 11:3: 20% is an iniquitous, “grievous” tax rate.

Mosiah 2: 14: The country’s leaders should be servants of the people, not live off of them through taxes.

Alma 60:27:  God will always support us if we desire freedom.

Alma 46:43 and 62:11 and Helaman 1:8:  Traitors of freedom should be put to death for trying to put their own people into slavery to kings, after a trial of their peers.  (Put that in the context of the McCarthy trials.  Interesting thought, isn't it?)

Ether 8: 25: Those who seek to overthrow freedom are led by Satan.

3 Ne. 2: 12: It is sometimes necessary to fight wars to defend freedom.

3 Nephi 5:4: The people should covenant with each other that they will defend freedom with their lives.

Alma 59: 13:  It’s OK to get upset with the government for not helping us preserve our freedoms, (but we still have to submit ourselves to the laws of the land.)

2 Ne. 3: 5:  The creation of the United States fulfilled prophesy.

Alma 46:17: This entire area of the world is meant to be the "land of liberty".  (Monroe Doctrine)

Alma 43:7: Liberty is essential to being able to follow God’s laws.

Alma 61:9 (and also from the Bible, Acts 22:28): God is the granter of freedom and we have a right to it at birth.

Mosiah 23:13: You can’t trust kings to rule over you

2 Nephi 1:7:  It’s only a land of liberty if the people are righteous and trust God.  If they are wicked the land is cursed and the people will lose their freedom.

Mosiah 29:39: Liberty comes through law.

And what was written directly to us: 

Ether 8: 18-26:

He saw our day, the wickedness of the people, the people working to overthrow our liberty and the liberty of all sovereign nations, and begged us to wake up and not allow those people to gain control and destroy our freedom, because if we remain wicked and they destroy the freedom of this land we’ll be cursed and experience the wrath of God.