Can A Conservative Be an Atheist?

Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago to Philosophy
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ok, let's talk...

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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    So, in this area, we can assume that collectivist (all people having equal rights to freedom) is a good thing?
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yea, I like that too ;)
    I used to speed read, but as I've gotten older, I realize I am not absorbing at the same rate I used to. I tend to go back and re-read which in the long run defeats the purpose. My father-in-law was able to keep up the skill until he suffered a stroke that basically blinded him in one eye.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I have less to judge TC on than ML, who has several books and hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours of radio broadcasts that I've been able to listen to. (as an aside, it's amazing to me how little actual talk time there is in a radio show. For a 3 hour program, the podcast comes over as 1:55 roughly. My podcast player allows me to speed that up to 1.5 speed, so I can get through the equivalent of a 3 hour show in about an hour and 15 mins give or take. Ain't technology grand?).
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was assuming you would have the same freedoms and property protections as me. If I am the only one with protection, then it sets up a system of tyranny from the start. There was much discussion of George Washington being named monarch of the US. It was revolutionary that he wasn't. France talked about the rights of man in their revolution, but in the end, it was all qualified by the needs of society. The more a country has been influenced or based on common law the freer they historically been. Common Law as defined by Blackstone. Not a tradition argument-but singularly important that it is based on natural rights.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    do you think more consistent than say a Cruz? frankly all the talk show hosts that I used to like listening to have huge blind spots that frustrate me
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But, your assertion was "I also think the more freedom man has and the more his property rights are protected, the more rationally he acts." I'm just pointing out instances where that can be demonstrated not to be true. Nearly all despots, tyrants, monarchs, etc.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we're off-track. North Korea does not have a Constitution like the US. and you see what happens when our Constitution is not followed in the US.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I didn't say he was an Obj, but a conservative. The most consistent that I've come across.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am torn on this. He doesn't really understand free markets well and he is a law and order guy. which means, he conveniently ignores the Constitution if he has an emotional take on an issue. other than that, I generally agree with him.
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I posted this book written by Objectivists where three warring factions in the party try to gain control. The establishment (power grabbers), social conservatives(who are not really for freedom and are dying off demographically speaking) and the Constitutional Conservatives (this is the only part of the party that would lead somewhere useful )
    http://www.amazon.com/Republican-Partys-...
    $1.99 on Kindle
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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually he ultimately did not feel safe in his "property. " His paranoia mixed with the usual court intrigue and scheming and the absurdity of royal devinition certainly flamed his monstrous behavior
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Founding Fathers Constitutionalist, so that it is not confused with the bastardization over the last 100 years.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Robbie and I both fall into the same category, In fact, on occasion, when there is a candidate I have met locally, I have voted for members of the Constitution Party.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I lean more libertarian than conservative, but those in charge of the Republican Party since Reagan have been neither. Consequently I resigned from that band of party poopers.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It wasn't self explanatory? I'm pretty sure I read it straight out of Rand, not sure which book. It doesn't need to be dissected to death...sheesh.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Just wondering - since there seemed to be some question as to what a real conservative perspective is.
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