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“Most importantly, Machen favored individual rights and families over governmental powers.

Machen detested governmental control of individuals; as he stated in the introduction of Christianity and Liberalism, “Personality can only be developed in the realm of individual choice. And that realm, in the modern state, is being slowly but steadily eradicated.”
https://fee.org/articles/j-gresham-machen-a-forgotten-libertarian/

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