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What's So Weird About a Conservative Atheist?
The Atlantic ^ | February 26, 2014 | Emma Green

Posted on 02/26/2014 4:35:25 PM PST by lbryce

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Their faux sincerity meant to convey the left's Schandenfreude regarding the diminishing power and influence of the Conservative movement's fall from grace. The conservatives having been forced into becoming politically diluted, prostituting themselves in betrayal for a few meaningless numbers in the Electoral College in a desperate hope to remain vital. This talk by the is a retreaded canard they just loves to talk up whenever there's a crisis among the Conservatives, Republicans

This issue is merely a rehash of the chimerical political beast the Republicans /Conservatives have become and they do have a point about what it means, I'm sorry to say. For me, a log cabin Republican is a chimerical creature created by a political Dr. Moreau, one that doesn't exist in the real world, merely created in the demographics laboratory of political expediency, necessity.

Stretching the canvas tent out and up making it tauter to accommodate an egregiously blasphemous political compromise is only going to cause the tent to collapse that much sooner and was already declared "an attack on God Himself" if not in so many words.

If you're indulgent in the lifestyle of the depraved and the licentious, God is as absent, non-existent from your life as it is for the atheist.

1 posted on 02/26/2014 4:35:25 PM PST by lbryce
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I never did understand atheism.
I guess those folks never ask the questions: who made me, where am I from, what happens after I die.

Zero curiosity or they don't give a rat's.

2 posted on 02/26/2014 4:37:55 PM PST by cloudmountain
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“the importance of religious equality,” Silverman said.

How sincere!


3 posted on 02/26/2014 4:38:40 PM PST by Viennacon
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Bozell is correct. It is impossible to be both a American Conservative and an atheist.

American Conservatism is about preserving and utilizing the time-honored and proven values, methods, and institutions that have built up America into the exceptionalism that has made it a bastion of freedom.


4 posted on 02/26/2014 4:45:30 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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What's So Weird About a Conservative Atheist?

Where do our rights come from? Answer me that and I'll explain to you why a Conservative atheist is a non-sequitur.

5 posted on 02/26/2014 4:46:29 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: lbryce

Makes as much sense as a conservative homosexual.


6 posted on 02/26/2014 4:48:20 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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A friend asked me about this controversy, this is what I sent him:

I saw this - and I have mixed views about it. I do think conservatives should be welcoming to the secular community, so this action is a bit problematic. That being said, the secular community has pretty much embarrassed themselves and completely pissed off most conservatives - and of course, I see little evidence of any separation between secularism and secular progressivism - certainly none of the groups I know makes that effort. They are like misbehaved guests whom you don’t want to have at your party. So I see both sides on this. As a Tea Partier who is an atheist, I am stuck in the middle :-).


7 posted on 02/26/2014 4:48:24 PM PST by warpsmith (Wake Me in 2016)
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>> I never did understand atheism.

But Atheists understand you enough to describe your God as fictitious.


8 posted on 02/26/2014 4:48:51 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: lbryce

Nothing weird about them.

What’s weird is this sudden demand to be recognized as a group to be pandered to.


9 posted on 02/26/2014 4:48:56 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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I was conservative long before I stopped being an atheist. One inevitably leads to the other.


10 posted on 02/26/2014 4:50:01 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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I don’t understand atheism either. How can you possibly prove that there is no God?
Playing the devil’s advocate, though, how can you prove that here IS a God?
Agnostics don’t care what you think and can’t understand why you care so much about what they think.


11 posted on 02/26/2014 4:50:51 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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Most of politics involves people coming together to achieve specific goals in the short-run here.

People with different ideas about divine beings can come together if they have common interests or common adversaries.

People love to hold forth about their ideas about the ultimate things, but that can tear political coalitions apart.

This is a controversy that could have been easily avoided by just not inviting an explicitly atheist group with no conservative ties to a conservative conference.

12 posted on 02/26/2014 4:53:10 PM PST by x
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Insofar as it is in the interest of a free and prosperous people to promote and instill virtue, I do not find it outside the realm of possibility that an atheist could fall into line at least from a sense of self-preservation. But a civil society is much better served when its participants act out of more than self-preservation, seeking the betterment of all. This is partly, if not largely, why we [the citizenry of the USA] argue over the manner and degree of affirming the common good. Pure self-interest is unhealthy and not in accord with the Judeo-Christian ethic that serves our founding principles as expressed and enforceable by law. Most atheists I know seek to question and undermine this very thing, but not all.


13 posted on 02/26/2014 4:55:22 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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Our Judeo-Christian sensibility responds to “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...”

An atheist can only appeal to “we decided these were rights”...

And if one group of leaders can decide them some other leader in the future can undecide them.


14 posted on 02/26/2014 5:01:39 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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Religion is conservatism’s Achilles’ heel.


15 posted on 02/26/2014 5:04:02 PM PST by Misterioso
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Hardly. Judeo-Christian faith is its strength.


16 posted on 02/26/2014 5:06:43 PM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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Conservatism is mostly about realism. Atheists don't deny God, they just hate Him...and they especially hate his Son.

So in realistic terms, they are angry with the center of their universe...they hate the core of realism.

In fact, they believe that they can create a world (Utopia) which is better than His. And they believe this because they follow a leader who has held this opinion for many millenia.

And who is this Rebel?

Obama serves him!

17 posted on 02/26/2014 5:15:15 PM PST by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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Fine with me—just identify as a conservative and leave atheism out of it...same with homosexuals. I know of conservative ones, and I am glad they agree on low taxes and smaller government. So let’s leave it at that.

Karl Rove is an atheist.

So is Charles Krauthammer, IIRC.


18 posted on 02/26/2014 5:15:56 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: cripplecreek

This is a part of the movement of the GOP away from conservatism, and into even more libertarianism/rinosim.

Kill conservatism, then argue about money issues with the democrats.

The GOP left doesn’t realize that social liberalism only creates socialist voters, not capitalist voters.


19 posted on 02/26/2014 5:23:47 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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What is it THAT communists and atheists have in common?..
Actually more than disbelief in God..

Commies believe the givernment is God.. Atheists DO NOT..
BUT the commies only use that as a gambit for dissimulation..
BUT atheists know that too.. let’s say their “cousins”.. not brothers..

When an atheist comes to you with compassionate atheism..
Just know it’s all BULL SPERM.. he would inseminate you with..

Commie or atheist... both are hauling a short load..
Atheisim has as much in common with conservatism..
As PeeWee Herman does with innocence..


20 posted on 02/26/2014 5:24:49 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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