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.
Zero curiosity or they don't give a rat's.
“the importance of religious equality,” Silverman said.
How sincere!
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.
Where do our rights come from? Answer me that and I'll explain to you why a Conservative atheist is a non-sequitur.
Makes as much sense as a conservative homosexual.
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 :-).
Nothing weird about them.
What’s weird is this sudden demand to be recognized as a group to be pandered to.
I was conservative long before I stopped being an atheist. One inevitably leads to the other.
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.
Religion is conservatism’s Achilles’ heel.
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!
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.
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..
A conservative atheist makes far more sense than a liberal Christian.
I don't believe in atheism.
I think its a mistake to exclude atheists. They can be and often are Conservative politically, they just don’t believe in a God. One of the most moral people I know is an atheist. CPAC made a mistake in kicking them out.
Atheism provides for no ultimate objective source of individual sovereignty.
The only version of individual sovereignty available to atheism is the subjective kind, which makes it no different, ultimately, from any form of liberalism.
Atheism provides for no ultimate objective source of individual sovereignty.
The only version of individual sovereignty available to atheism is the subjective kind, which makes it no different, ultimately, from any form of liberalism.
“Despite this year’s snub, the Atheists are willing to reopen dialogue with CPAC about “the importance of religious equality,” Silverman said.”
Conservatives wouldn’t whine about this.
An atheist could be a conservative.
A group that defines itself in such an identity politics way isn’t conservative.
I'm also agnostic, bordering on atheist. (Don't have the cajones to go all the way, I guess).
You won't find a more staunch supporter of religious freedom, for all religions, than you'll find in me.
I consider atheism to be a religion that should not be elevated above other religions, especially in the U.S. where Christianity and Judaism were the founding and prevalent religions.