Editing Murray Rothbard (section)

=== Personal life ===
Joey Rothbard said in a memoriam that her husband had a happy and bright spirit and that Rothbard, a [[Night owl (person)|night owl]], "managed to make a living for 40 years without having to get up before noon. This was important to him." She said Rothbard would begin every day with a phone conversation with his colleague Lew Rockwell: "Gales of laughter would shake the house or apartment, as they checked in with each other. Murray thought it was the best possible way to start a day".<ref>{{cite book |last=Rothbard |first=JoAnn |url=http://library.freecapitalists.org/books/Murray%20N%20Rothbard/memoriam.pdf |title=Murray Rothbard, In Memoriam |publisher=von Mises Institute |location=Auburn, AL |page=vii–ix |access-date=December 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220074229/http://library.freecapitalists.org/books/Murray%20N%20Rothbard/memoriam.pdf |archive-date=December 20, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Rothbard was irreligious and agnostic about God,<ref>Sciabarra, Chris (2000). ''Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism'', Penn State Press, 2000. p. 358, {{ISBN|0-27102049-0}}</ref><ref>Vance, Laurence M (March 15, 2011). "Is Libertarianism Compatible with Religion?" Lew Rockwell.</ref> describing himself as a "mixture of an agnostic and a [[Reform Judaism|Reform Jew]]".<ref name="Raimondo2000-67">{{cite book |last=Raimondo |first=Justin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBsyVMg5HToC&pg=PA67 |title=An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-61592-239-0 |page=67 |access-date=June 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191016074204/https://books.google.com/books?id=YBsyVMg5HToC&pg=PA67 |archive-date=October 16, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Despite identifying as an agnostic and an [[atheist]], he was critical of the "left-libertarian hostility to religion".<ref>{{cite book |last=Raimondo |first=Justin |title=An Enemy of the State: the Life of Murray N. Rothbard |publisher=Prometheus Books |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-57392809-0 |page=326 |quote=In the same letter, he reiterates his atheism: "On the religion question, we paleolibertarians are not theocrats," he writes. "Obviously, I could not be myself, both as a libertarian and as an atheist." However, he continued, "the left-libertarian hostility to religion, based as it is on ignorance and the bitterness of "aging adolescent rebels against bourgeois America", is "monstrous."}}</ref> In Rothbard's later years, many of his friends anticipated that he would convert to [[Catholicism]], but he never did.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Casey |first1=Gerard |title=Murray Rothbard |publisher=Continuum |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-4411-4209-2 |editor1-last=Meadowcroft |editor1-first=John |series=Major Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers |volume=15 |location=London |page=15 |author-link=Gerard Casey (philosopher)}}</ref>