Posted on 08/05/2014 9:49:44 AM PDT by EveningStar
Conservative writer and CNN talking head S.E. Cupp recently put out a video describing how she has been welcomed among conservatives even though she is an atheist. This led Hot Air's Allahpundit to chime in with his own experiences, citing myself and National Review's Charles Cooke as other examples of atheists on the Right. And we're not the only ones. There's Heather Mac Donald and Walter Olson, and a whole website devoted to the issue. Among marquee names, there are a few famous agnostics/atheists like Charles Krauthammer and George Will.
When you start looking, we're everywhere.
I pretty much agree with Cupp about not feeling excluded. Heck, The Federalist even encourages me to comment on the Bible from an unbeliever's perspective. Yes, I get a fair number of readers who disagree with me, but as a general rule Christians tend to be annoyingly nice critics. Environmentalists will tell me they wish I would die; Christians tell me they're praying for me. I try to return the favor by not demonizing Christians, so to speak, in the way that the Richard Dawkins "New Atheist" crowd does.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
?..why can’t an atheist/agnostic believe in personal liberty...? What would preclude it...?
What we see over and over is that strong Christians stick to their guns and have a deeper commitment to conservatism, it is a natural part of their faith and world view, there is a reason that republicans get so few votes from atheists, while the practicing Christians oppose democrats.
The last time I looked at DU, I had to go through a lengthy decontamination process and have my tetanus shot updated.
“The article lost me when it said George Will was a conservative. He speaks to the right on issues of little consequence, but veers left with it matters.
No God = no moral compass.”
Will and the other Beltway/New York City faux conservatives aren’t worth the time to read nor listen to their verbage.
They certainly can. Most people believe that it is inappropriate to steal from or kill others as well, but still we need a higher authority to prohibit those who do not.
Belief that our rights descend from our creator provides an authority on a higher level - not every man or woman elected to higher office may be inclined to hold those truths self evident to us, so the Constitution provides the required clarity.
I read the article. Atheists are still wrong about God, and very often wrong about abortion, constitutionalism, and climate.
It all comes down to moral law.
If moral law has no greater source than man, then the nature of that law is necessarily subjective.
In other words—without God, all moral law is nothing more than opinion. There is no ultimate groundwork for individual sovereignty.
“Atheists don’t believe in God. But the Devil does’’.— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
And we welcome you here, Hell-bound infidel that you are.
Ping
Not if she cries out, “Oh, science !”
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