I was telling my brother today that this world boils down to the ideology of liberalism vs. that of conservatism can be literally traced to a hatred of God vs. a Love for Him, respectively.
Preach it, brother!
Unfortunately FR is infested with "rationalist" Ayn Rand types who think the argument is about taxes ("rationalists" seem to think money is the purpose of life).
Our struggle is with non-Theistically based morality. All non-Theistically-based morality, whether left or right, cruel or gentle, is basically the same thing. It denies the right of the Creator to make laws (because they are "tyrannical") while defending the right of human beings to make laws based on a "mutual agreement" to act as if a meaningless universe had meaning. I notice no one ever seems to object to laws made by "rational" human beings as being arbitrary or tyrannical. Apparently only G-d A-mighty doesn't have the right to tell people how to behave.
These people are hypocrites, pure and simple.
If you don’t like the idea of living in a self governing nation, nobody is making you stay here.
G-d A-mighty has the right. You don't. When you call for a theocracy, you are usurping God's place.
And you are a theocrat, pure and simple.
What if some of us don't choose to live under your interpretation of a deity and the resultant laws? What happens to us blasphemers?
Speaking of "crimes:"
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing -- with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
Not true: The invisible pink unicorn hasn't this right, neither...
How ironic, I’m reading ‘Atlas Shrugged’ for the very first time! I picked it up at an antique store, paper back.
Another wonderful quote: If you don’t believe in God you’re gullible enough to believe in anything. Rush spoke about it today.
Of course to believe in a God that justifies beheading or murdering people because they don’t marry the person the family chose, amongst many other examples...isn’t exactly the loving God I’m envisioning...as you well know!
Liberals see cops and criminals the exact same, they both carry guns, so naturally the answer is to ban all guns!
Just as they see U.S. troops just like the nazis (and Japanese) they defeated, so, to them, the Rosie O’Donnell types, Christians are no different at all from militant Islamists. and so on.
Kooky!