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To: Dr. Sivana

So Jews are unwelcome in conservatism. Interesting.


160 posted on 06/21/2015 10:18:05 AM PDT by FredZarguna (Let's call it what it is: Climate Immorality. Now say a Dozen Hail Marys and six Our Fathers.)
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To: FredZarguna
So Jews are unwelcome in conservatism.

I stated those of no Faith. Jews have a Faith, largely with a great overlap of the moral underpinnings as Christianity. You would do well to cut the nonsense with that snarky "interesting" business.

Jonah Goldberg wrote an excellent article the other day, where he explores what conservatism means. His best quotation (from Yuval Levin) described conservatism

To my mind, conservatism is gratitude. Conservatives tend to begin from gratitude for what is good and what works in our society and then strive to build on it, while liberals tend to begin from outrage at what is bad and broken and seek to uproot it.

, that is compatible with Christianity, Judaism and William F. Buckley, but not so much with Atheism, Occultism, or Ayn Rand. Kirk's longer definition, earlier in the article, even less so. (Requires belief in a transcendent order).
163 posted on 06/21/2015 12:23:52 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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