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Author Topic:   radical liberals (aka liberal commies) vs ultra conservatives (aka nutjobs)
Jazzns
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Message 72 of 300 (659074)
04-12-2012 11:13 AM
Reply to: Message 70 by Taz
04-12-2012 10:21 AM


Non-Religious Conservativism?
Can you give us an example of when conservatism wasn't based on religious ideals?
Easy. Objectivism - Wikipedia
Modern Republicans are actually moving more and more toward a philosophical and economic position that advocates the REJECTION of religion.
This is at the same time that they are also clinging fiercly to social issues based on religion. Its a very weird paradox but being nearly 100% contradictory has never stopped Republicans before.

BUT if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prepared to receive us the instant we are born --a world furnished to our hands, that cost us nothing? Is it we that light up the sun; that pour down the rain; and fill the earth with abundance? Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on. Are these things, and the blessings they indicate in future, nothing to, us? Can our gross feelings be excited by no other subjects than tragedy and suicide? Or is the gloomy pride of man become so intolerable, that nothing can flatter it but a sacrifice of the Creator? --Thomas Paine

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