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Yup, right next to the tree.
I find it amusing that so many people just have to redefine whatever they want at a whim. Conservative isn’t a fluid thing. It’s pretty simple, rigid and defined. And it has always included God.
I personally have no issue with Atheists that believe the other things that conservatives do. But it is farcical to think that you can gut the very core of what the philosophy is about.
IT IS BASED ON CHRISTIAN/JEWISH MORALITY.
Always was, always will be. And there is really no difference between a militant atheist whining that he’s a conservative and a militant homosexual whining that he is a conservative.
Simple answer here. No. They aren’t. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg don’t make it one.
From a logical standpoint atheism cannont be separated from nihilism. One is always the ultimate conclusion of the other.
I COMPLETELY DISAGREE with Bozell here.
The GOP and Atheism share core traits:
1. Arrogance. Atheists are, as we know, secular humanists so arrogant that they are unequivocal in their declaration that ‘There is no God but Man’. Agnostics, by contrast, are conflicted, and while they generally believe there is no God, there is room for doubt. You can have principled discussions about the matter with them. They can be swayed by evidence.
Arrogance within the GOP-e is such that there is no other Republican but the one they invented this week, which gets kinder and gentler with each passing day, to the point where today’s Republican is indistinguishable from Tom Harkin.
2. An inability to incorporate evidence as a survival instinct. The Atheist, should such a person actually exist in practice, is driven almost completely by short-term self-interest so intense that it overcomes almost any ability at even tactical cognitive behavior. Strategic behavior is COMPLETELY beyond the Atheist, in that even when presented with a probabilistic analysis of the ohysical and metaphysical survival rate of Christian vs Atheist, there is generally no response at all, whatsoever.
The GOP shares this same fatal similarity with its Atheist cousin. In that no matter HOW much evidence that truly conservative, strict-constructionist, small-government, free market positions ALWAYS succeed both politically and economically, in the words of George Wallace, they vow they are never going to be ‘outniggered’ again by their more ideologically bigoted progressive opponents, and thus seek to adopt the very policies that have been proven over the last 5000 years of public policy history to have failed with absolute consistency.
You see, the modern GOP is anti-baby, pro-UN, pro-socialist, pro-fascist (state run industries), anti-religion, pro-pedophile, weak-military, pro-stimulus, pro-subsidy, pro-regulation, pro-illegal alien, anti-middle class, pro crony capitalist in a way even more important to those causes than the Progressives actually are: They give cover and legitimacy to those causes by way of token resistance.
Today’s GOP - Home of the ‘Show Vote’.
“We were overrun.” - John Boehner. That short enunciation of the basic gist of the second shared trait lends the illusion that all of the provably failed concepts promoted by Progressives actually won in the arena of ideas.
At this point, we would lose less if Washington DC were destroyed by multiple ICBMs than to try and fix what we have today.
If the 50 states today decided to disband its union, and pocket all of the federal money it sends to DC, the economies of all but NY, CA, and New England would improve almost overnight, even if it had to mint its own currency based on Petroleum. (In fact, ESPECIALLY if it minted it’s own currency pegged to Texas Light Sweet).
Maybe that’s the stupidest part of Obama’s strategy here: If the USG doesn’t think it has a responsibility protecting our interests abroad militarily, and decides to no longer provide that to the states, then of what value does a strong central government continue to provide in a world with the technology available today?
It took a national effort to build the atom bomb, and we borrowed silver from the national mint for the wiring since copper was in short supply.
Today, the Federal government is nationalizing systemically important private businesses that it put in extremis with policies it foisted on those businesses and then mobilizing itself to prevent catastrophic economic collapse with its national bank.
So, where it used to protect us from the specter of the extermination of entire races, it now pretends to protect us from the economic annihilation it instigates on the entire world.
This is why your rights had to be modified, after all, to protect you.
No, Bozell is dead wrong here. The GOP and Atheism are ideological cousins, if not brothers.
That’s the old joke: What’s the difference between an Atheist and a Satanist?
One is honest about who the boss is.
Undoubtedly there are many atheists who believe in Liberty and Unalienable Rights. There are clearly some on this very forum.
I don't see any need for knee-jerk antagonism of such People...