Ms Tree
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Here is a thought I had last night. Kind of of topic but not really.
In Christianity there has been a running debate for centuries, "Can a Rich Man enter Heaven"? So that made me ask:
Can an Atheist be a Libertarian? Pretty sure the answer on this is a resounding NO! Not if they're intellectually honest. How could you support Individual Liberty when according to Libertarian thinking that those individual Freedoms and Liberties are conferred not by Government but by our creator which is an explicit admission of a supreme being which according to atheists doesn't exist.
Can an Atheist be a Conservative? No Idea actually that's why I asked.
Is an atheist automatically Liberal/Progressive? I think the answer is a resounding YES. Liberal/Progressives put their faith in science and government since they have no Godhead to follow. This leads to situational ethics or what I like to call "Flexible Ethics". See in my little Christian, Jesus loving pea brain there is a whole lot more Black and white than there is shades of Grey.
I have never really been to concerned with labels. If being a libertarian (what ever that is) requires faith in god then I cannot be one. Who cares. What is the label for one who believes in individual liberties that were bestowed upon man by man?
I am fairly comfortable with your basic description of liberal/progressive. I do not believe in a one size fits all approach to much of anything.
I tend to believe that I am socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
I really wish you would stop quoting the BS that Dapoes spews as then I have to read it as part of your quote. Any way. The idea that someone without children cannot be concerned about the welfare of children is beyond ignorant and stupid. Children are going to be the leaders of tomorrow and I have a vested interest in their well being just as we all do. I do have nieces not that it matters. I get very defensive about the elderly, children and animals. They are the weakest in our society and need the most care.