And yet, one need not be religious to be Conservative. One need only be principled, and of logical intellect.
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This article mixes Religion and Politics. Core issue Conservatism-are we Christians.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. I want to be stable. I would like to see this article split. Liberals to the left. Christians right. |
Here is a core issue over Conservatism today --- are we a Christian Nation?
The answer: ARTICLE 11. As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion,-as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen,-and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries. avalon.law.yale.edu |
We will forever debate "right and wrong." Those are absolute opposites when the middle usually contains more things we can all agree on, my brother!
If we want some real guidance on "right and wrong" then we must go to Jesus, in my view. The Conservative Pharisees had it made making money on religion. Jesus whipped them from the Temple steps / they plotted to get rid of this radical / they succeeded in his death by horrible crucifixion ~~~ BUT God had bigger plans. . . |
Gene, you'll never ever understand that there is difference between right and wrong, understanding simple math rather than not, bolstering relative truth over absolute truth. It is a condition of the Squishy Middle.
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I hope more people will join this discussion---it is crucial and important that more than Stan and me discuss a central problem for today in America . . .
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When you turn "informed dissent" into "squishy middle" you have clearly defined your position of radical conservative / hard head / refuse to compromise . . .
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I wouldn't know. Never spent any time in the Squishy Middle.
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I love and appreciate the openness of Stan to alternate articles---how I wish he could do the same with his personal outlook.
As a Moderate, I can agree to disagree with most folks. If you were a SBC type Conservative --- hell bent on control and dictating a fundamentalist theology---NO WAY HOSE!!! Many of us moderates lost our votes and the NC Baptist State Convention will not accept gifts from any church which ministers to homosexuals or has a female pastor. This is Conservatism at its worst when people are dis-enfranchised. I pastored the N. Rocky Mount Baptist which took a fundamentalist pastor to court and those who naively followed over who were the real Southern Baptists and who should keep the church facilities. For once, the thieves lost and had to move to another location to do their hate thing . . . It is a legal precedent in NC, folks . . . |
BCN is no more a Conservative publication than the Washington Daily News is Liberal, actually, we are less dictum oriented than their publication, any local publication in this region for that matter.
BCN allows all opinions on BCN, all news, all events from the community; we dont pick and choose the published and the unpublished, unless the presentation is terrible, and even then I will try to work with folks providing that they are completely open to it. In fact, more than 55% of all our traffic is art, trvel and consumer leisure, community events related. This far exceeds anyone else in this region, and these are not political issues ... if they are, I did get the memo. If I write about politics, government, I speak Conservative truth because it is my estimable experience that this works in governing people. My principles expressed are as our Founders truly intended us to be governed, and to whatever extent I may be wrong, I am 7 fold more right in real terms. The truth of this is real: Liberals have a tough time reconciling reality and their utopian ideals. The real truth is that Liberals make a mess of things, always have, always will, and leave it to the adults to correct. When we do, it works for them for a while, and then the whining starts, the subterfuge, and once again, their politicians make a mess of things. Its just the way it is. |
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Southern Baptists got taken over / Methodists split / Presbyterians had major fights --- most average people said, "If this is 'Christian love' I want none of it! I have better things to do than go to fighting churches."