its sad that you cant post something that questions religion on here. to suspend someone because of their beliefs sounds like something liberals would do. news flash to everyone: you can be conservative and non-religious.
Seriously, some of the so called conservatives on here are as tolerant as the taliban and I’m a Christian for that matter.
You said — “its sad that you cant post something that questions religion on here. to suspend someone because of their beliefs sounds like something liberals would do. news flash to everyone: you can be conservative and non-religious.”
Hey!! I get atheists hammering me all the time, here on Free Republic (whether they are conservative or not, I don’t know...)... LOL...
Newsflash: you can be conservative, non-religious and manage to avoid going to the Religion Forum to repeatedly harass people about their respective religious beliefs. You can even do that, and manage to avoid being permanently banned, as this whiney little Opus demonstrates.
News flash to atheists; JR is more than just conservative, and this is his forum, not yours. He hasn’t exactly kept his Christianity a secret. He is under no obligation to provide you with free bandwidth to spread lies that go against his openly stated value system.
Fair enough.
But irrelgion is no excuse for bad manners.
“news flash to everyone: you can be conservative and non-religious.”
Not really, religion is an intricate part of true conservatism, read that God’s Law or God’s Morality...
That's bilge. People question religion on this board all the time and keep their posting privileges as long as they want them.
There's a way to do it.
There's a way to just be abusive about it.
Many of our ancestors agreed with the treaty called "The Peace of Westphalia" and most of us think it's still a great idea, and deal with other people's religion in accordance with the respect we pay our ancestors for bringing The Thirty Years War to an end.
Which was a good thing.
Some folks deal differently with "other folks' religion". I consider them impolite and won't deal with them.
There's plenty of room for discussion of religion here.
Some of the Moderators haven't read throught he Peace of Westphalia in a long time and are rusty on its finer points ~ which is why I'm bringing it up on this thread.
“...news flash to everyone: you can be conservative and non-religious.”
EXTRA!!!
How’s that? True conservative principles are based in the Moral Law... which comes straight from the mouth of God. Ir-religion (atheism) and conservative principles no more mix well together than do communism and freedom. To imply one by suggesting the other is oxymoronic. But, alas, the Revolution marches forward in the minds and works of prideful creatures.
An atheist may hold some “beliefs” that are typical to conservatives, such as free-market economics... but all the social aspects of genuine conservatism flow from the moral axioms of the Judeo-Christian paradigm.
Moreover, deviations from the moral code always involve or demand a violation of free market economic principles. Hence the claim to be fiscally conservative but socially liberal is disingenuous and ludicrous on its face. Such propositions, typical to the mindset of the ongoing Revolution, enshrine the cult of man, deny the Kingship of Christ, and invert His ordained social hierarchy by placing the creature above the Creator. Thus those who proclaim the Rights of Man, do so only by their abridgement and abrogation of the Rights of God.
The creature, having free will and intellect (an eternal soul created in God’s image), is free to choose right from wrong. However, the creature neither possesses, nor is at liberty to proclaim by way of “freedom” of conscience, a “Right” to do wrong. That subtle difference divides those who belong to the Revolution from those who are Counter-Revolutionaries. To wit: those who work to advance the cause of the father of revolution, Satin, and those who promote, practice and defend the estimable virtues of the Creator, Christ the King. This is the fundamental difference between liberalism and conservatism (I state this with the caveat that true conservatism preserves what is good, not because of nostalgia, but for reason that an institution or cultural practice serves God and fulfills His Commandments)
Liberalism proposes, promotes and protects all manner of evil, while it works to vilify, suppress, and undermine all that is good. Liberalism appeals to man’s base nature by inversion of the natural order, enslaving the will to the passions and destroying the faculty of reason. The natural order of man’s faculties is his free will, guided by reason informed by faith, in control of his sensory appetites. Liberalism inverts this divinely constituted order, exciting the passions, weakening the will, and corrupting reason to the point that the compromised will is besieged by the tyranny of the sensual appetites. Since both the will and reason constitute the two eternal aspects of man that make him unique to all God’s creatures, and in fact make him to be in the image of God, then the attack upon these two attributes constitutes an attack upon God Himself. Hence to promote disbelief in God, who may be known by reason alone without revelation, for His works attest to His glory, is to promote a denial of His natural order and by inference to aid the advance of liberalism and the Revolution.
He who denies Christ, or works to nullify His Rights of Kingship, denies God the Father, and thus is actively working to advance the cause of the father of lies who is the Satan, whether conscious of that alliance or not. A man cannot serve two masters; for he will love one and despise the other. Put simply: a man cannot ride two horses with one ass. Thus, one cannot claim to be both ir-religious and conservative, for the two attributes are, from their first cause, irreconcilable.