PoliticalChic
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Examine what you think "liberalism" is. Liberalism isn't a religion. Stop reading Ann Coulter. Pundits split the country into us and them. It's wrong.
My religion informs my politics, not the other way around. Buddhism informs my political choices.
1. Liberalism is one of the ersatz versions of Leftism that replaced Christianity for some folks. Very few can live a life without meaning. For most, religion provides that meaning. But the fulcrum of history, the Enlightenment, and, subsequently, the French Revolution, weakened the influence of religion in Europe.
2. The collapse of Christianity in Europe opened the door for Leftism, Liberalism fascism, Nazism, and, ultimately, socialism, feminism, environmentalism, and the permutations of egalitarianism. Instructive, that so many versions were needed to fill the hole left by the decline of Christianity.
3. The religion of Leftism has its search for Utopia albeit of this sphere and two famous statements encapsulate the search:
a. There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not ?Attributed to Robert Kennedy.
b. The other is from the words of John Lennons song, Imagine. One is asked to imagine that there is no heaven or hell, that everyone lives for today; that there are no countries, nothing to kill for, and no religion; there are no possessions- therefore no greed nor hunger.
4. Conservatives dont dream of things that never were nearly so much as Liberals do. We usually dream the same dream that our forefathers did: an America that is identified by the American Trinity of Liberty, In God We Trust, and E Pluribus Unum. And, judging by history, we have seen that utopian dreams are more likely to end up as nightmares.
Chapter two, Prager, "Still The Best Hope."