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Yes, Atheism and Conservatism Are Compatible [uh, huh. bye]
NRO ^ | 26 Feb 2014 | Charles C. W. Cooke

Posted on 02/26/2014 3:05:25 PM PST by Notary Sojac

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To: elkfersupper; Responsibility2nd
[Are you equating Christ to Allah?]

No. christ to mohammed? Certainly.

First of all, it's Christ with a capital C. It's a show of respect for Our Redeemer and God's Only Son sent to save we sinners. And to even imply that the pedophile mohammed (lack of capitalization is intentional for that servant of satan) is in any way, shape or form equivalent to Jesus Christ is utterly absurd and not at all Conservative. My personal hope (and I'm sure others here on FR share that hope) is that you may you find God's forgiveness through sincere repentance.

81 posted on 02/26/2014 4:48:13 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: GraceG

Young Republican official: Tea Party is full of drooling, senile angry bullies who are ‘mad at everything’; Update: Tweets deleted

http://twitchy.com/2014/02/26/young-republican-official-tea-party-is-full-of-drooling-senile-angry-bullies-who-are-mad-at-everything/


82 posted on 02/26/2014 4:51:01 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: buwaya

Not in America.


83 posted on 02/26/2014 4:52:09 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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To: albionin; re_nortex; ansel12
They are pro capitalism and individual rights and are against welfare statism and egalitarianism but they embrace the altruist morality that they are based on and that their religion promotes and which is incompatible with capitalism IMO.

You know nothing about God. He asked for His sheep to be fed by their brothers, NOT government. We are to take care of one another. Our rights come from God, not government. They only take them away. Try feeding your family fish or game without a license. Government took that right away, not God. A properous man is to share his wealth with widows and orphans but not the lazy.

What in that do you disagree with?

84 posted on 02/26/2014 4:52:53 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Notary Sojac

‘bout time.

IATZ


85 posted on 02/26/2014 4:54:56 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: gorush; buwaya; elkfersupper

Well, thanks, all for the engaging and challenging discussion, but I still don’t believe that atheism is compatible with conservatism.

However, I do believe it is compatible with libertarianism and objectivism. In fact, it’s de rigueur for objectivism, no?


86 posted on 02/26/2014 4:55:45 PM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: TheOldLady

He just didn’t get it.


87 posted on 02/26/2014 4:57:12 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Westbrook

Libertarianism is a matter of enforcement, not morality.


88 posted on 02/26/2014 4:57:17 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: ansel12; buwaya

God rewarded Job with even more than he had before. Who knew God was making him “godless and morally compromised”. ;-)


89 posted on 02/26/2014 4:57:24 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Notary Sojac

BZZZAP!

90 posted on 02/26/2014 4:57:46 PM PST by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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To: re_nortex

It certainly is.


91 posted on 02/26/2014 4:59:30 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: elkfersupper
The reality is that my father and mother were my "makers", and I hope I don't go back to them.

OK so you had/have bad parents. They did not create your soul/spirit intellect. After the first adult humans were formed by the Creator, their offspring began life at conception when that fertilized egg was given its soul/spirit intellect. There is nothing you can do to change the fact that when flesh dies that soul/spirit intellect returns to the Maker that sent it. Might as well start dealing in reality the sooner the better.

92 posted on 02/26/2014 5:00:20 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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To: trisham

He did not. His loss.


93 posted on 02/26/2014 5:02:19 PM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Westbrook

I don’t know (and once again, I said agnostic, not athiest), but yet here I am, primarily a rabid strict-constructionist conservative and secondarily an agnostic...and my dog is named Dagny. :{)


94 posted on 02/26/2014 5:02:31 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: ansel12

Do you mean the attitude towards capitalism ?
Check out Kirk.

Our present day attitudes towards free enterprise and free trade are not terribly ancient. Their roots are old, but the details aren’t that old. Back in the 1890’s one could say that what we now consider the more populist Evangelical\fundamentalist\pentecostal churches were solidly against capitalism as they knew it.


95 posted on 02/26/2014 5:02:47 PM PST by buwaya
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To: Westbrook
I still don’t believe that atheism is compatible with conservatism.

Which is precisely why, contrary to some here on FR, I have never and will never consider Ayn Rand a Conservative. As an atheist, it naturally followed that Rand has no respect for life and thus was an abortionist. Oh sure, she strung together some clever words, but a Conservative Rand was not. Whatever else she may have stood for, advocating the butchering of God's innocent children is the totality of what Ayn Rand was all about.

96 posted on 02/26/2014 5:05:45 PM PST by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: buwaya

Christians created America, and a capitalistic nation.


97 posted on 02/26/2014 5:08:35 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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To: re_nortex

Of course she wasn’t conservative, in any current or historical sense. She was a radical of her own stripe.


98 posted on 02/26/2014 5:08:40 PM PST by buwaya
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To: TheOldLady

Hey, I like the dog! Given any thought to “Zot the Magic Dragon”? ;’)


99 posted on 02/26/2014 5:10:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I want to know why the sudden need for recognition as a group to be pandered to. If they’re conservative they can vote conservatively without wearing a sign around their neck.

And exactly how are we supposed to “recognize” them as atheist conservatives? Do we remove God from the money or throw a few chaplains out of the military? Maybe they should sue a businessman for refusing to do business with them.

Its pure left wing behavior.


100 posted on 02/26/2014 5:10:27 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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