RoosterRedux: I will never understand the conservative love affair with Dennis Prager. He is not a conservative but an old time liberal who seems conservative because we've moved so far Left. If you will notice, he always distinguishes between "liberalism" and leftism and always defends the former.
He is also a very poor religious model. How many conservatives are aware that Prager is not Orthodox, that he is essentially a rationalist who has re-written the Bible (The Rational Bible) to take out all the stuff he doesn't like? You know, like that great guy Thomas Jefferson?
If empires are doomed to failure, then it appears the American Empire is on its inevitable descent. Calls to a more conservative political philosophy or a religious awakening will merely slow the fall.
We may eventually get a truly conservative and religious political order but only after a revolution, a collapse, and the imposition of some type of monarchy or tyranny. The seeds of destruction were not sown in the 60's or even in the 20's after WWI. They were sown much earlier, maybe even as early as the Reformation or even going back to the Renaissance when Europe was reintroduced to the rest of the world and started having doubts about the one true way to God.
bramps: And which version of the seventy-five bazillion versions of Xianity is the correct one? Or does it not matter
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If you asked the hordes that are doing the rioting, looting, and general mayhem, which following word do you think you would be least to hear as describing their faith?... or any politician pushing this crap? Think carefully about your reply. Eternity is a long time.
Atheist
Agnostic
Catholic
Jewish
Born Again Christian
And that’s a bad thing? Classical liberalism is what prevented this nation from becoming a theocracy, and it wouldn’t have been Jewish. Classical liberalism made free speech, debate, compromise and toleration the cornerstones of our freedoms and governance until the liberty-destructive 1960s.
Even the meaning of the word “liberal” has been rewritten lately.
If you saw AG William Barr’s riveting interview by Mark Levin this past Sunday (well worth looking up on YouTube if not), Barr used the word “liberal” properly in an excellent discussion of the current threats to our system.