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To: Keltik
I can only conclude that Kirk has some sort of odd bug up his butt on this issue -- he's generally simply too smart to come up with notions so stupid.

Conservatives are on the same side as Nazis (who believe in the transcendent moral order of blood and soil) and Communists (who believe in the transcendent moral order of historical inevitability)? Nonsense.

41 posted on 11/09/2006 2:07:58 PM PST by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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To: steve-b
Nazis(who believe in the transcendent moral order of blood and soil) and Communists (who believe in the transcendent moral order of historical inevitability)? Nonsense.

Blood and soil and the workers' paradise are immanentist doctrines, like certain libertarian fantasies about materially producing our way into a paradise where the streets are lined with gold and significant state intervention is impossible.

Both libertarians and Marxists hold the whithering away of the state to be the political goal and ideal, and both dismiss any concerns about the state's fundamental relation to God and to the good life. Many believe the pursuit of happiness is fundamentally subjective and beyond not just legal but even rational consideration and criticism.

92 posted on 11/09/2006 10:59:05 PM PST by Dumb_Ox (http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
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