Many years ago, I attended a dinner at a wealthy man's New York City condo with, among others, one of the most prominent and influential conservatives in American life.
Having debated atheist scholars, all of whom agreed with this not-very-audacious observation, I was quite surprised when this prominent conservative took strong issue with me: God is morally unnecessary, he stated with some passion-why would any educated person think otherwise?
First, all the religious-God-based, Bible-based, religiously active-people I knew or studied were conservative.
Second, in American terms, the American conservative I most admired, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder and publisher of National Review, was a deeply religious Catholic.
Wouldn't a conservative seek to conserve all of America's basic principles?
Most well-educated conservatives have embraced secular values and made peace with a secular and godless America just as much as have well-educated leftists.
One has to wonder what secular conservatives do with statements such as this famous one of John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/04/03/conservatives-compromised-secularism/
Having debated atheist scholars, all of whom agreed with this not-very-audacious observation, I was quite surprised when this prominent conservative took strong issue with me: God is morally unnecessary, he stated with some passion-why would any educated person think otherwise?
First, all the religious-God-based, Bible-based, religiously active-people I knew or studied were conservative.
Second, in American terms, the American conservative I most admired, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder and publisher of National Review, was a deeply religious Catholic.
Wouldn't a conservative seek to conserve all of America's basic principles?
Most well-educated conservatives have embraced secular values and made peace with a secular and godless America just as much as have well-educated leftists.
One has to wonder what secular conservatives do with statements such as this famous one of John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/04/03/conservatives-compromised-secularism/
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