Posted on 03/05/2014 8:17:14 AM PST by Kaslin
I don’t doubt there are atheist conservatives but I do doubt the motives of agenda atheists who need to proclaim their atheism.
This is not your father’s ACU. CPAC be damned.
Conservatism is incompatible with atheism.
Atheism is amoral and directionless.
Conservatism has morality, meaning, purpose, and direction....all from God.
Amen.
We hold no truths to be self-evident, that all (men) are evolved based on chance, that they are endowed by a mindless chemical process from a mindless universal algorithm with uncertain inalienable illusions that among these are a delusion of life, and the pursuit of happenstance.
Here’s your problem...a billion people would change one word of your statement and agree whole heartedly:
Take out conservatism and replace it with Islam.
“Islam has morality, meaning, purpose, and direction...all from god.”
I’m not a militant Atheist. But I recognize the futility of religious arguments. Christians KNOW they’re right. Unless you’re the wrong sort of Christian. Like a Catholic. Then a bunch of Protestants think you’re deluded. And a bunch of Catholics think the same thing about Protestants.
Muslims are so sure they’re right that they will cut your head off for being an infidel. If you’re Jewish it’s even worse. Oh, and let’s not get started about the Mormons.
See my point? It’s futile. Believe what you want, don’t push those beliefs on others. Mind your own business.
I realize many Atheists are obnoxious blowhards. So are many “devout” believers. For me, god has nothing to do with lower taxes, less government, 2nd amendment rights, etc. It’s just common sense.
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
Because you despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.
And He shall break it like the breaking of the potters vessel,
Which is broken in pieces;
He shall not spare." - Isaiah 30:9-14
Atheism lacks morality, meaning, purpose and direction because that is what it is about. It doesn’t lack it because I believe in God.
Atheism has no foundation that provides for those things. All are a matter of whim and circumstance.
Atheism is intellectually inferior to belief in God.
I would rather have atheists who support limited government than religious people who do not in politics. I do not know that I would want their viewpoint on religion promoted. However, one of the tenants of America is that one is free to believe and worship in whatever way one sees fit. So maybe a bit of a catch-22, but I would rather have them sharing conservative ideals as opposed to liberal ones.
When Reagan spoke he did so as in "We the people" not as a tyrant like Obama.
We the people will never abandon our belief in God, no matter what entity presumes to speak for us.
Thank you for saying that and fully support it.
So are Atheists a greater threat than say...Muslims?
Yes, if the millions killed in the “political atheist movements” (communist, fascist) movements are any indication.
“I realize many Atheists are obnoxious blowhards”.
The public crusader ones for sure, like the ones who want to be at CPAC.
Problem with atheists is they are naive and obtuse.
Put another, they are dumb and ignorant.
That’s OK, but the problem is that they see themselves in the exact opposite light, that they are intelligent and informed.
That is the truth, and along that line, permit me to quote from a report made to the Seventy-sixth Congress on January 3, 1939:
Americanism is based upon the recognition that the inherent and fundamental rights of man are derived from God and not from governments, dictators, kings or majorities. It is as un-American to hate one's neighbor because he has more of this world's material goods as it is to hate him because he was born into a different race. Americanism is is a philosophy of government based upon the belief in God as the Supreme Ruler of His Universe.
That report was submitted by -- get this -- a Democrat from Texas, Martin Dies, pictured below. Back in 1939, there were actually people with a D next to their name, many from the South and quite a few from Texas, who loved America and realized that God was the foundation of this great country. Congressman Martin Dies of the Texas Second (now served by Ted Poe) launched the Dies Committee, authoring that report, which later became the HUAC, paving the way for war hero Senator Joe McCarthy to expose the communist enemy within.
And here's an additional quote from a genuine Patriot about Our Creator:
Without God, obviously wed have no God-given unalienable rights. Wed have only the rights government decides we should have. Thats the way it was done all throughout history until our founding fathers recognized the self-evident truth. America was founded on the principle that all men are created equal by God and granted their unalienable rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness... and self-rule. No king. No dictator. No ruler. No king but God.
His name is probably more familiar than that of Martin Dies. It came from a February 26, 2014 post by the American Hero pictured below.
This nation was founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
Thank you very much.
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