[AzJP]

Surely you're describing metaphorically, rather than defining, right?

I'd offer that if you took two conservatives and two liberals (however defined) you'd average sixteen different outlooks of everything.

As a crude example, ever noticed the bitchy fighting for the conservative and for the liberal Presidential candidates? They can't agree on who, and often can't agree on when to meet!

Whatever, back to the front, deity is a prerequisite for religion, IMHO, but the gent, the FIRST gent, with this article has apparently gone.

Amy

[Khepera]

deity is a prerequisite for religion

Liberals worship multiple deities. Molech is one they worship and the sacrament is Abortion. They worship a deity called tolerance and its name is invoked in reference to Homosexuals and other perverts, aberrant behaviors like pedophilia (Dr Joclyn Elders was just on Fox News promoting the acceptance of the sexulization of Children.) They continue to push the god of diversity on us which tears down social traditions that hold our society together. Your failure to recognize these deities is no indication that they are not real and worshipped by the left.

[Doug Loss]

I'm back. Familial committments kept me from posting last night. In point of fact, religion doesn't require a recognized diety. Buddhism arguably has no diety, as the Buddha never claimed to be a god (although many branches of Buddhism treat him as such). Taoism has no diety. I don't know if Shinto has dieties or not; I tend to think of it as ancestor worship. Anyway, a belief structure needn't have an espoused diety to qualify as a religion, as far as I'm concerned.