[sitetest]

“They ground their ideas in rational thinking and (nonreligious) moral argument. And the conservative movement is crippling itself by leaning too heavily on religion to the exclusion of these temperamentally compatible allies.”

This is because, in part, the number of non-believing conservatives is dwarfed by the number of believing conservatives.

Politicians, like Willie Sutton looking for money in banks, go where the votes are. If you're a conservative, it's with believers.

[Reagan Man]

"Without God, there is no virtue, because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

---- President Ronald Reagan, Prayer Breakfast 1984