Posted on 04/30/2014 1:11:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I will accept nothing less than #1!!!!
Push, push, push!!!
Indeed. Buuuuump for more donors!
looks like FR is #1 to me
Well, Sarah, if you ever need any free graphics, let me know ;^)
There are plenty of conservative atheists here.
Thanks. I doubt that but we press on.
Please this recent FR thread and my post on the subject: Reagan Was Right, ACU Wrong: Atheism Is Enemy of America. I also direct your attention to the comment by FReeper stalwart xzins:
Conservatism is incompatible with atheism. Atheism is amoral and directionless. Conservatism has morality, meaning, purpose, and direction....all from God.
There is but one King in America and that's Almighty God.
It is impossible to be a conservative and be an atheist.
American conservatism is all about preserving the values and processes that have made this an exceptional nation.
Belief in God is the ultimate value.
“Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...”
If rights aren’t from God, but are instead some human philosophical conclusion, then those humans can change their minds.
“So, why do we have so much trouble putting these FReepathons to bed in short order?”
Ditto.
Holy cow! Coming in late here (rain knocked out our internet service), but this is fantastic.
It’s an honor to post here on FR.
Thanks for the ping, KC
So Ayn Rand wasn’t conservative? The great Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov was also an atheist and a staunch conservative who supported and the Vietnam War.
Take away God and obedience to His Commands and you have liberalism. Again, per my prior post, I'll quote from the boss (whom I pinged solely to make sure I'm not taking his words out of context):
Without God, obviously we’d have no God-given unalienable rights. We’d have only the “rights” government decides we should have. That’s the way it was done all throughout history until our founding fathers recognized the “self-evident truth.” America was founded on the principle that all men are created equal by God and granted their unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness... and self-rule. No king. No dictator. No ruler. No king but God.
I'll repeat my assertion and stand by it without equivocation: Conservatism and atheism are incompatible. Period.
Ayn Rand was definitely not a conservative. She was a libertarian. If libertarians wanted to be conservatives they wouldn’t call themselves libertarians.
Vlad Nabokov is unknown to me. However, it is impossible for an atheist to be a conservative. Atheism, by definition, has no moral compass.
Smut peddler Vladimir Nabokov was the author of Lolita, aptly described by a London editor as "the filthiest book I have ever read". It's not surprising that an individual who denies God would produce such pornographic trash. Suffice it say that this Vladimir Nabokov character, author of a pedophilia book, was definitely not a Conservative.
No way that an atheist can subscribe to “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
They don’t believe in a Creator, so any rights have to rights that “someone came up with” or “that society decided upon” or “we think now are most important.”
In other words, without them being from God, they are from man, and being from man, then man can change them.
Lolita isn’t smut. Have you read it? VN was a good friend of William F Buckley.
No. I have not read it nor do I plan to. I have also never read Hustler and other such trash. My preference is for books and other publications that uplift: The Holy Bible, The United States Constitution, Mere Christianity, Escape from Reason, Evangelism Explosion and the like.
VN was a good friend of William F Buckley.
So? Murray Kempton was also a friend of Mr. Buckley's.
“My preference is for books and other publications that uplift: The Holy Bible, The United States Constitution, Mere Christianity, Escape from Reason, Evangelism Explosion and the like.”
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Yikes,I’ll read anything,if it’s even just out of curiosity.
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Fiction is obviously regarded in a different way than the texts you listed. And it does uplift. It’s Americana written by a naturalized American citizen who loved America.
And Kempton and Buckley were ideological rivals. Buckley and Nabokov saw eye to eye politically.
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