I think what we get from the left here is "I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right" without any morals.
I think what we get from the left here is "I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right" without any morals.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
I'll keep an eye out for her book. Our library has her book on attacks on the police, I think it is. If I see her book on the above, I'll take a look.
(Another objection to Prager video - ~5 minutes of cartoon is very brief. There's only time for a cartoonish broad picture there - possibly one reason they get so much static.)
I've semi-followed her for a long time. Years ago American Conservative, think it was, put out an issue on What is Left? What is Right?. She had one article in it arguing you can be conservative and atheist. Quite a stir.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Helena (01-09-2019)
I showed my husband that article. Here's what he had to say :
That's very fine and succinct writing. It makes me want to read her books even more. What she's suggesting is actually a return to the separation of church and state suggested by Locke in those Letters on Toleration I recently read. Locke was a devout Christian, but he understood the necessity for secular government if you wanted to safeguard individual rights. After all, what's the first thing a theocracy does but insist on individual compliance, as opposed to liberty? Neocons in the US have been treading a very slippery slope by letting religious principles dictate policy. That never seems to end well for anybody. But then, Leftism has become a religion of its own, in the sense that its tenets are mostly non-rational, and liberals are just as guilty of leaning on their inscrutable gods as conservatives are of Bible thumping.
You are wrong about police.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
With the arguable exception of the Papal States, a theocracy has never existed anywhere in the Western European world.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
I believe you.
I don't believe it was stated that it did and I think you're narrowing in on a minor thing, maybe? THe word theocracy was used, yes. I'll grant you that.
Beyond that, do you agree or disagree with the broader points about conservatism, the left and religion?
You are wrong about police.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler