[tallhappy]

Conservatism means to examine cause and effect and react and plan accordingly. This has *always* meant to push superstition back, as the supernatural does not play well with cause and effect, and nor can superstition be demonstrated to have value.

No. But pushing back superstition has always been part and parcel of Marxist/Communist regimes. The Chinese were especially ruthless in this and millions were murdered for their belief in "the olds".

Incredible revisionism on this thread.

[orionblamblam]

> Incredible revisionism on this thread.


Indeed, as your post just demonstrates. To state that studying cause and effect does not help wipe out superstition... revisionism on the order of Holocaust denial and ID.

[Ed Hudgins]

"But pushing back superstition has always been part and parcel of Marxist/Communist regimes. The Chinese were especially ruthless in this and millions were murdered for their belief in "the olds."

Not really. Marxism and communism ARE forms of superstition, not believed based on reason -- even though Marx called himself a 'scientific socialist' -- but on faith, just like Nazism. Marx denounced bourgeois logic, that is, the principles of reason and science as discovered by Aristotle and many other great thinkers.

Eric Hoffer's book "The True Believer" does a great job of showing how there's no fundamental difference between the religious and political true believer fanatic.

[Bingo Jerry]

But pushing back superstition has always been part and parcel of Marxist/Communist regimes. The Chinese were especially ruthless in this and millions were murdered for their belief in "the olds".

Ah, the good old Guilt by Association fallacy.

You know, those people used guns too. That must mean...hmm..