Oh, that’s nice. And how is one’s conscience informed? So basically whatever one wants to do to whoever they want to do it to is fine and dandy.

“Conscience” implies some objective moral training. Those who have no objective moral training can use “conscience” to justify anything. And a sociopath, without any conscience at all is not constrained at all by the “essence of conservatism”.

Count me out.

“I find it fascinating how many are buying into the Christian = Taliban equivalency, especially on the right. All of a sudden these harmless Christians that have been a large part of the greatness that is America are now dangerous religious fanatics as well.”

The problem is (as with every one of these group labels) that Christian beliefs in politcs has many faces, and as usual the most offensive get the most press time. When people who are not devout think about the Christian/political intersect, the images that spring to mind are Ralph Reed, Focus on the Family, “Don’t you dare teach science to my kids”, the Terry Schiavo fiasco, and other such imposition characters and situations.
Religion in politics (in America) seems to only make the news if it involves Christians demanding certain behavior or attention, and for anybody that doesn’t already 100% agree with those making the noise it always comes off as offensive and fanatical. Unfortunately, it harms not only the cause of morality/religious ideals in politics but pushes people away from religion in general — I have many (alleged) Athiest friends that point to Fred Phelps and his protests as a reason they don’t want to explore the ideas of religion . . . for them, belief seems to equate with fanatic.
Is it true? No, but that’s the image that gets fostered by the religious attention whores.

I suppose we all have our religious prejudices. I want nothing to do with so-called “holy men”. The ones who have crossed my path have been sanctimonious, holier-than-thou hypocrites of the first order.

I asked one friend who became a fundamentalist minister about preachers so often getting in parishioners pants, for example. He claimed that the devil puts far more pressure on the very religious because they are a bigger catch for hell. Sure. When I was 37 and smitten by a young lady of a fundamental congregation, that minister took me aside and read the riot act. Seems I was too old, too divorced and too spiritually weak. This while married members were having their extramarital affairs and so forth. The fact that Huckabee is an ordained minister means nothing to me other than I don’t trust him and, looking at his “conservative” claims, I think he’s a lying sack of spit. There are those of us who don’t go so far as to accept atheism, but some of us do find organized religion detestable.
Give me someone with executive experience who has done a good job even with stiff opposition to his goals. Senators as a group are rather worthless cogs in the old boys’ club.

retire05 – While I was raised Baptist I spent many a Sunday at Catholic mass with my Grandma, aunts and uncles. Yes I understand it’s not idol worship but rather an appeal for intersession. Not a concept I buy into but I can understand why people differ on what it is. People that talk like that are like the little old church lady that said – I use the King James version of the bible because if English was good enough for our lord it’s good enough for me. Ignorance isn’t a sin but it is the human condition.

I find it fascinating how many are buying into the Christian = Taliban equivalency, especially on the right. All of a sudden these harmless Christians that have been a large part of the greatness that is America are now dangerous religious fanatics as well. I am willing to bet that as a Catholic, having a bunch of Protestants think you are an idol worshiper is the least of your concerns, particularly in a country where now your and my supposed political friends are making Catholics and protestants out to be Taliban lite or at best quaint dark age relics if an ignorant past.

Wouldn’t you say the “Ten Commandments” would qualify as the list of “God’s standards” for mankind?

Many of our laws (and indeed, so much of our nations’ history) are derived from that Judeo-Christian list.

It would seem to me you’re attempting to argue that conservatives are at odds with a religious morality, especially one that’s reflected in law . I just have never seen now or in the past.

I do believe you can find a few individuals who reject the concept, but they are extremely few in number in the real, voting world. But you’ll never find a “God/moral code rejecting” Republican party.

Huckabee is a goofball, to be sure, and would have no chance in a general election. But it’s record and position on political issues (amnesty for illegals, blame-America foreign policy, etc.) that will sink him with conservatives.

Since he really has no future, I’d ignore him as being as irrelevant as Ron Paul. The only real damage he can do is to cause good candidates to drop out.

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Oops, my bad, that’s another ‘religion’.

Hey, anybody but the PIAPS!

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