Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
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American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.
Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.
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