[ClearCase_guy]

I think the idea is that any thinker who rejects the Judeo-Christian tradition is contributing to a modern worldview which leads us down a road that no Conservative wants to travel. Alinksy and Rand are completely different — but both convinced people that a moral foundation based upon something bigger than Man not needed by our culture.

[Popman]

Thank you for actually reading the article...: )

[P-Marlowe]

Exactly. What the author is emphasizing is that when you remove God from the equation (and by God, I mean the Judeo-Christian God), then whether your philosophy is Capitalist based or Communist based, an emphasis on a godless philosophy will ultimately lead a Nation to a social dystopia. In other words without reference and deference to the God who gave us our Natural Liberty, the end result will be that we will lose whatever Liberty God has granted us.

Certainly a Nation can tolerate Atheists, but when a Nation turns its back on God, when the Nation itself becomes a reflection of godlessness, then ultimately whatever gifts God has bestowed upon that Nation will dry up.

Ayn Rand’s and Saul Alynsky’s godless philosophies ultimately both lead to the same destination.

[Yardstick]

The disagreement between conservatives and libertarians is a second order thing. They agree about individual freedom and limited government. They have different abstract reasoning that gets them there but they agree at the concrete level. The disagreement between liberals and conservatives is different, because it exists at the concrete level. I’m always amazed at how conservatives want to throw libertarians, who agree with them where the rubber meets the road, under the bus with liberals who disagree with them from top to bottom.

[chesley]

Alinksy and Rand are completely different — but both convinced people that a moral foundation based upon something bigger than Man not needed by our culture.

Matthew 7:

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

There are many ways to Hell, and only one way to God, faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Amen.