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.
“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.”
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Excellent point.
FR is a very potent mix of fundamental conservatism (pro religion) and free wheeling libertarianism (pro freedom).
I think the mix is so powerful, because the left in America long ago stopped being “liberal” in the traditional sense of the word (that is to say, pro-freedom and individualistic) and became group-thinking socialist, militantly athiest wannabe tyrants.
This has created a situation where libertarians and conservatives have more in common than different - a true case of “the enemy of my enemy, is my friend”.
There are compromises to be maintained in such a partnership.
Conservatives sometimes put up with the more flaky pro-individual beliefs of some of us libertarians - in return for us libertarians recognizing our own political philosophy is about (not) insisting on how others should believe - and respecting those whose primary driver is faith, and the deeply profound legitimacy of that faith.
If you’re not of deep faith, then keep it to yourself.
Why argue pro-evolution on a religion forum?