Study shows conservatism = fear in the brain

So, you think there is validity to faith healing and protecting parents from consequences if their kids die from neglect? You do realize that 2 dozen states currently have laws protecting parents from legal consequences if they can prove that their kids died from faith healing, not neglect, yes?Do you think there is validity to keep questioning whether Obama was born in Hawaii or not?Do you think there's validity to anti-sodomy laws?Do you think there's validity to trying to teach creationism in the science class room?Like I said, these aren't just simple disagreements. Any middle ground is just as absurd as the right wing argument.

You are confusing socons with real conservatives.You want to discuss the differences, start another thread.

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

And here I had thought, from context, that the thread was specifically about socons rather than about real conservatives.I'm wondering who is confused.

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Jesus was a liberal hippie

Coyote, have you not been paying attention? This thread has been about socons since the beginning. No, we haven't been calling them "socons", but we've done everything to describe them in short of calling them socons.This is why I've been complaining for years that the republican party has been hijacked by socons and the variations. Real conservatism is suppose to be for gay marriage, equal rights for all, etc.

Well of course!But liberals love to bash "conservatives" and I'm getting a little tired of it.So expect to be corrected more often.

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Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.

Don't get me wrong. I bash all conservatives alike. Why? Because the so-called real conservatives have been letting the socons and religious right-wingers running their side.Don't forget that anti-sodomy laws were finally declared unconstitutional in 2003 by the supreme court. At the time, there were about a dozen states still having sodomy law of some kind. That's the kind of things I'm bitching about from the conservative side.Again, some of these arguments from their side are so absurd that I have to question their sanity for even considering them.Even a moderate conservative like McCain has been completely silent about the crackpots from his side of the fence making racist statements about Obama.This goes back to the other thing I've been pointing out for years. The more scientific minded, more liberal side tend to police ourselves. If I were to say something like "all christians are murderers and rapists", in no time the entire liberal population will descend upon me and smother me to death. You just don't see that kind of reaction from the conservative side. It's like a taboo for them to criticize their own.In rare cases like Murkowski calling the tea party an extremist group, those conservatives are usually ostrasized and disowned by their side.Added by edit.It takes a lot more than just a few crackpots to put these unjust laws in the book and keep them there for years. It took more than just a few crackpots to put a socon like GWB into office, someone that has a history of openly and very loudly supported the criminalization of people engaging in consensual gay sex. Don't try to sound like the real conservatives have the majority nowadays. They don't.Edited by Taz, : No reason given.