Hollywood Conservatives: Should They Just Shut Up and Entertain?
You’re advocating a package deal: political conservatism and Christianity.
Political conservatism means advocating inalienable individual rights because man is the animal who thinks and requires the freedom to think and in accordance with his thinking.
Christianity is mysticism (belief in the absence of evidence) and altruism (where living for others is the proper moral standard) — both of which are antithetical to individual rights.
There is no place for Christianity in politics. As predominantly deists (not theists), the founding fathers’ recognized this; hence their Constitution to keep religion separate from politics.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote to his nephew, “Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.”
The more conservatives embrace religion in politics, the closer we move to the Weimar Republic – ripe for a demagogue like Hitler.
Advocate individual rights in politics, and strictly limit your faith to the private sector.
