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To: B-Chan
"An overriding dedication to "freedom" or "liberty" (i.e. a wordview which enshrines individual impulse and desire as absolutes) is the hallmark of the political Liberal, not the Conservative.

No. The dedication to Freedom honors the individual as a being entitled to life and the sovereignty of will he was born with. You've placed a quality on that being that is not inherent in him. It is in fact bearing false witness against him in a general way.

"A true Conservative is dedicated to an entire different set of supreme values: religious and cultural Tradition, the Family, and private Property.

Freedom! Without it, all you have is the clash of wills of the petty tyrants. Freedom was and is God's gift, it's not yours to take and He told you so.

290 posted on 06/27/2003 9:18:30 AM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets; B-Chan
You must recall that 'freedom is the liberty to do what is RIGHT,' not to do what is 'wrong.'

There is no "freedom" in doing evil. No spiritual freedom, no corporeal freedom.
294 posted on 06/27/2003 10:43:16 AM PDT by ninenot (Joe McCarthy was RIGHT, but Drank Too Much)
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