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If you want to believe that everybody can pick up a Bible and figure things out and every understanding and perception is as good as any other, more power to you.

To me, that's cultural relativism.

Between the alternatives of one man knowing what's best for everybody, and everybody figuring it for themselves, are places we reach by consensus.

I think consensus is the essence of conservatism.

We don't go out and reinvent the wheel every time, because the wheel has already been invented. And we don't decide to try communism or socialism again because we know that no matter how many times you try it, it never works.

I feel the same way about religion.

Schism for the sake of individual idiosyncracy doesn't typically lead to better things.