Posted on 03/23/2015 6:44:37 AM PDT by Kaled
Because I'm a Conservative, I believe in a strong separation of church and state. As Eliade wrote in The Sacred and the Profane, "the sacred always manifests itself as a reality of a wholly different order from 'natural' realities." We do a disservice to the truly sacred when we force it into Caesar's world. What is sacred to me is between myself and my Maker--and forcing that into the public square diminishes both of Us.
Because I'm a Conservative, I care about the environment. Whether prompted by the Bible or by our own sense of morality (itself a part of the sacred), we are stewards of this earth, and we owe it to ourselves and our childrenand to the plants and animals who cannot protect themselves from usto provide not just good stewardship, but as perfect a stewardship as we can conceive.
Because I'm a Conservative, I support gay marriage. I believe that a family with two loving parents is a benefit to childrenand to parents. Kids get to see loving interactions (important to their development and world view) and parents can both join withand rescue, when neededeach other, having a close friend with whom to share the thoughts, feelings, joys, and stresses of life, amplified even more with children.
Because I'm a Conservative, I care about personal responsibility. Too often, though, the term has been re-interpreted to mean "taking care of #1" when personal responsibility should also include ownership and accountability for what goes on around me. That means I have a responsibility to understand the plights of others, to recognize when and how I might contribute to such ills, and to do what I can to correct them, to create a fair and level playing field where everyone has the same chances given the same efforts.
Because I'm a Conservative, I care about reasonable gun control. For me, a key component of traditional conservatism is feeling safe and secure, knowing that risk is minimal, and understanding what to expect of my neighbors. Randomly politicized gun-waving does nothing to further this cause, instead making us feel less safe, less secure. There is nothing "conservative" about walking into a store armed with semi-automatic weapons; it is egocentric, narcissistic, and dangerous.
Because I'm a Conservative I care about knowledge. Through the ages much has been learned, discovered, explored, and revealed. Not all of it has been good for us, but much of it has. And learning begets learning, all of which raises us up. To be conservative is not about the worn-out equation of ignorance and bliss, but about recognizing that our greatest assets include both our souls and our minds, and encouraging the growth of both equally. They are, after all, both a part of us, and handcuffing the one in favor of the other only insults each.
Conservatism, I strongly believe, is not a bad word or a bad ideal. It is, however, a term misunderstood. Those who label themselves conservative today seem most often not to be conservative at all. They have, in reality, a highly radicalized agenda, one set on taking us backwards. It is that direction which seems to imply conservatism, but it shouldn't. Radicality lacks a vector, and should be known only through the severity of its proposed changes. To roll us back to a time when religion alone led us, to a time when white skin alone defined the rules, to a time when only the few owned nearly everything, is radical and not, axiomatically, conservative.
For those of you who embrace the roots of conservatism, I urge you to continue to do so. For those who seek to call out conservatives, I ask that you recognize the difference between those of us who are, and those who have stolen the terminology from us and bastardized it for their own specious use. And for those of you who claim the role of conservative but so clearly are not
well
I ask nothing of you, for you have already shown us who and what you are.
Nice!
A classic case of underestimating and overestimating at the same time...Good job!
WHO GETS TO DEFINE "REASONABLE"?
"As a conservative site, Free Republic is pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights, pro-gun, pro-limited government, pro-private property rights, pro-limited taxes, pro-capitalism, pro-national defense, pro-freedom, and-pro America. We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc. We also oppose the United Nations or any other world government body that may attempt to impose its will or rule over our sovereign nation and sovereign people. We believe in defending our borders, our constitution and our national sovereignty."I doubt you will be here very long because you have no real understanding of what conservatism is. Perhaps you should go join some liberaltarian or commiecon site. They would be more to your liking.
Just wow.
I give it a four out of five:
Still alive, though...
Yeah. Because I’m a conservative I believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat and from each according to his ability to each according to his needs. Because I’m a conservative I believe forcible redistribution of wealth and all power to the state as the vanguard of the working classes. Because I can type “Because I’m a conservative” I expect everyone to credit this ridiculous collection of stale platitudes as serious political thought.
“Because I’m a Conservative, I believe in a strong separation of church and state..”
Oh. You’re one of those that don’t believe in praying before football games. B.T.W. where in the Constitution does it say anything about separation of church and state?
“Because I’m a Conservative, I care about reasonable gun control”
Me too. That apparently means that the thousands of “gun control” laws already on the books are unreasonable?
“Because I’m a Conservative, I care about personal responsibility..”
I don’t think “personal responsibility” means what you think it means
“Because I’m a Conservative I care about knowledge”
That’s right. All the “Radical Conservatives” as you call them don’t care a thing about knowledge. They would have us go back a couple of centuries. Things were better then. Are you sure you are talking about Conservatives and not Muslims?
“... To roll us back to a time when religion alone led us, to a time when white skin alone defined the rules, to a time when only the few owned nearly everything, is radical and not, axiomatically, conservative.”
And there you go. Exactly what you think about Conservatives. And coincidentally, exactly what progressives think of Conservatives. You may be a lot of things. But you are not Conservative
I look forward to the ZOT. (Go back to DU)
If the poster is the author of the blog bit or not, let’s talk about the blogger.
The blog is by Michael Charney who has a blog, Chasing Glen Beck (cause he can’t stand him.) He fashions his view as “Consiberalism” and holds the following as people that are in line with that view that he respects: Joe Scarbourgh, Olympia Snowe, Meghan McCain, and Christie Todd Whitman.
While none of these people are axe murderers, none of them would be claimed by any Conservative or Libertarian group. They are the mushy side of the Republican trough feeders.
So this whole article is meant to dumb down the discourse, turn it away from any hard principles and just muddle up thinking and allegiances.
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I have no intention of going to its blog and giving it hits. I also understand what is really going on. For many years the word liberal has come to be a word of derision. No one wants to be a “liberal.” They all want to be progressives now. Liberalism is equated with failure. The libs and their attack dogs the media have tried to make “conservative” a bad word. But try as they might to destroy it, the word conservative has held up over time.
Conservatives have power and libs want to siphon off that power and if they can find a way to trick conservatives into supporting their liberals or blur the meaning of conservative into something it doesn’t really mean, then they weaken conservative support/power. They can’t control conservative so they try to manipulate it. Typical of lib behavior.
Hello “Dalek”.
Try again.
Tell me, you still dologising surprising poles?
http://freerepublic.com/tag/by:dalek/index?tab=articles
Hmm, no zot yet?
Last time we saw this flow, he had a fascination for surprising poles.
http://freerepublic.com/tag/by:dalek/index?tab=articles
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