[Borges]

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.

[re_nortex]

Ayn Rand was an abortionist who despised President Reagan. If George Tiller the baby killer was for low taxes, then I suppose he was a Conservative? If the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah favored limited government, then they must have been Conservatives too, right?

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.

[xzins]

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.