Posted on 10/02/2009 5:41:30 PM PDT by tobyhill
I would like to see all these "conservatives" leave the movement. They've been trying to marginalize and edge out Christians for years. Rush has spoken repeatedly about the disdain they have for Christians. How at cocktail parties they are embarrassed to be in the party with "those people". About time they got some of it back. Just leave Allahpundit. Without the "religious right", the GOP is nothing. Without you, it will do just fine.
From what you wrote, you and I have theological disagreements. Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I agree with William F. Buckley who once remarked that if fundamentalist Christians got everything they wanted, America would resemble the country he knew as a student at Yale and that wasn't a bad country at all.
That was right on the mark.
The general Conservative line on Liberals is about how elitist they are; how their feelings trump fact, and logic; and how, if you disagree, why, then you are either some kind of bigot, or your simply aren’t very smart, because — quite obviously — Liberals are THE most intelligent people in the room.
Sadly, that exact sentiment is on flagrant display within Conservative ranks with regard to “the Christian Right.” In a stultifying irony, many of the same self-described Conservatives who so fervently argue for Constitutionally limited government, and for a vastly curtailed scope of government spending, and regulation; many who regularly deride the maledictions of the Left as regards Conservatives, in general; many who decry the barenaked-yet-unadmitted bias of the regular news media; many of these same Conservatives will, without batting an eye, turn from lambasting Liberals over their glaring flaws of character, and level the selfsame inconsistent, and unjust Leftist tactics and arguments at fellow Conservatives who hold religious views.
Why should be obvious to all: you see, these particular Conservatives are above religion; they have discounted the facts and logic that lead weaker minds to belief in God; they are smarter than to fall for the inherently bigoted arguments leading to faith, because — quite obviously — they are THE most intelligent people in the room.
Plainly stated, irreligious Conservative elitism outranks Liberal elitism for virulence, corpulence, and outright hypocrisy, because — while it heartily waves the banners of Freedom, Liberty, and Patriotism (these being grounded in scriptural principle, by the way), and embraces Conservative views on a slate of issues — it maligns faith with all of the same disdain exhibited by the Left. Irreligious Conservatives espouse all the right positions, on all the right issues to qualify their Conservative credentials, but attempt to do so from positions having no root in the bedrock of faith. Fresh from this accomplishment, they assail religious arguments that support the positions they themselves espouse, and impugn those who hold to those arguments, simply because they rest upon truth-claims that also support faith. In this way, “having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof,” irreligious Conservatives actualize the very epitome of unmitigated gall.
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