I was listening to the latest episode of Freetalklive and did notice one other area of contention between me and Ian. He loves to refer to the cult called "government" as a real entity. Of course I remind him from time to time that "government" only exists in the minds of the cult members who believe in it. In every instance throughout history these "cults" disband and the cult members continue living in confusion after the bulk of people lose confidence in the fiction and thereby open their eyes to the realization that there is no "Rome" or "Babylon" or "Fill-In-The-Blank"... there are only people and things. Some of these people tend to trick others into believing that they have some sort of "authority" over other people. As my favorite movie character V says, "beneath this mask is more than flesh and blood, beneath this mask is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof"... Freedom and Liberty are ideas that are bulletproof. The "idea" that men can have authority over other men is a competing idea that is based on fear. The fear that somehow these men really DO have authority (they don't) and that they will hurt us if we question that authority (they will at first, but if the greater part of men realize their authority is bogus, the idea of freedom prevails).
Now Mark, he's another story. He really does believe in the tooth-fairy called government...