This is Adam Volle speaking. Salutations to you, Sir or Madame, in the name of our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I’m a writer and student who has joined this website’s creator Joseph Martin (if one can truly be said to “join” someone who is doing all the actual work) to present you with Theocrats.com, an online political commentary dedicated to exploring and promoting Christian-Libertarianism, which we believe to be the only truly honest method of governing. With every article we write we hope to convince you of the same.

WHO I AM

I’m an English major at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia, as well as a writer of comic books and screenplays for various companies and publications. I enjoy consuming as well as producing material, but lately I’ve focused my energies on absorbing nonfiction when I’m not penning my own work. I particularly enjoy the study of economics and political science, though in all honesty the only reason I’m capable of appreciating the latter is by not taking it at all seriously. Though I now write for Theocrats.com under my own name, for the first year of its existence I wrote under the pseudonym “$”.

WHAT I AM READING

The Art of Biblical Narrative, by Robert Alter

Narrative in the Hebrew Bible, by David M. Gunn and Danna Nolan Fewell

An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind, by Erwin McManus

The Complete Works of Jonathan Edwards

The Tanakh (The Holy Scriptures), translated by the Jewish Publication Society

WHAT I AM WRITING

I’m now finishing a full-length (22 pg.) comic book story that aims to examine pregnancy outside of wedlock, marriage, and the relatively recent American phenomenon of the Fundamentalist megachurch. The story will have a sci-fi twist and be published sometime this winter or early next year. More information as I have it.

FAVORITE QUOTES

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.” – George Washington

“Democracy isn’t merely about ‘the people’ getting what they want, it’s also about the people getting what they deserve.” – Jonah Goldberg

“When one of our people gets elected, sooner or later he [or she] stops being one of our people.” – Stan Evans

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Opinion is surely a devalued currency at this juncture… simply by virtue of the vast amount of it there is flooding the market.” – Alan Moore

“A fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him.” – A Proverb

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” – Ayn Rand

“Most people can’t think, most of the remainder won’t think, the small fraction who do think mostly can’t do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.” – Robert Heinlein

“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.” – Ayn Rand

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” – Thomas Jefferson

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.” – Ayn Rand

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson.

“Anything worth reacting to is worth overreacting to.” – Alan Moore

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Faith in market value is, at its simplest, putting a price on your mother… A good economist can do this, if pressed.” – P.J. O’Rourke

“Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ.” – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” – Ayn Rand

“If you do not do that which you know is right, you will never know what kind of happiness and peace of mind you might have attained in this life.” – Mike Adams

“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” – Ayn Rand

“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson

“A civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.” – Jean Francois Revel

“We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?” – Joseph Stalin

“Giving is most debilitating to the receiver and empowering to the giver.” – Joe McCalgan Sr., of Philadelphia

“Being a good writer is 3% creativity, 97% not being distracted by the internet.” – ?

“Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?” – Thomas Sowell