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How many Atheist are also vote Republican from time to time?
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 (July 16, 2015 at 3:55 pm)Spooky Wrote: Honestly I don't openly identify with any particular political party. I tend to vote on who I think will be best. Though my affinity towards guns means I often vote right. I was going to make my comment but you said it for me. The only thing I can add is that sick feeling I get when I do vote. Every candidate has something about them that makes me want to throw up. 
I can honestly say without fear of contradiction that I have never voted Republican and never will.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (July 16, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Dystopia Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 3:06 pm)Cephus Wrote: The reality is, in the early 70s during Nixon's Southern Strategy, a huge number of Southern hyper-religious Democrats, upset with their party over issues like abortion and civil rights, jumped over to the Republicans and, over the past 40 years, have largely taken over the party. They are still, in virtually every way, Democrats, except for their hyper-religiosity. The operation of the GOP today is more liberal than conservative. They spend like a drunken sailor (not fiscally conservative), they never met a program to enlarge the government that they didn't like (not small government), they desperately want to control what the public thinks and does (not keeping the government out of the lives of the people) and they think they know better what people ought to want (not for personal responsibility). None of those things are conservative, in fact, those are the opposite of conservatism. What they are, though, are liberal traits. It's amazing what 40 years of a group acting liberal and calling it conservative will have on the American people. It's no wonder they have no clue what conservatism actually is.Thanks for the info. Conservatism entails conserving something, usually some principles, tradition, economic policies, etc - It is also linked with prudence and caution and skepticism of arbitrary change. Being a conservative depends on what country you live in. In Britain conservatism is tied with things like royalty and monarchy, in France with French tradition and French values and the French revolution (naturally). True, but the one thing that conservatism has nothing to do with is religion, but that's the one thing that everyone seems to think characterizes American conservatism. They're just wrong. There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide mankind that cannot be achieved as well or better through secular means.
Bitch at my blog! Follow me on Twitter! Subscribe to my YouTube channel!  (July 16, 2015 at 7:02 pm)Cephus Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Thanks for the info. Conservatism entails conserving something, usually some principles, tradition, economic policies, etc - It is also linked with prudence and caution and skepticism of arbitrary change. Being a conservative depends on what country you live in. In Britain conservatism is tied with things like royalty and monarchy, in France with French tradition and French values and the French revolution (naturally). Conservatism has a lot to do with religion because it entails preserving your culture, and your culture is inevitably influenced by religion - Even if you're against religion, you're probably very influenced by the predominant one and its ideas. It is inevitable. Laws are based on morality, usually the majority's morality - Morality itself is influenced by religion even if most "devout" atheists don't want to admit it - This isn't to say you need to be religious to be a conservative, but to say conservatism isn't influenced by religion is naive - It has something to do with religion because it promotes tribalism and a continuum of moral values. IMO, anti-theism and conservatism are fundamentally incompatible.
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(July 16, 2015 at 7:37 pm)KUSA Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 6:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I can honestly say without fear of contradiction that I have never voted Republican and never will. If only staying in England took the worry out of people voting Republican.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (July 16, 2015 at 7:37 pm)KUSA Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 6:53 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I can honestly say without fear of contradiction that I have never voted Republican and never will. Even in America, that is an easy thing for a sane person to promise. "A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." — David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
I don't, generally, as long as it stays in America. It's when it starts spilling out into the rest of the world that I get concerned. Remember that the US has big, big bombs.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (July 16, 2015 at 11:16 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I don't, generally, as long as it stays in America. It's when it starts spilling out into the rest of the world that I get concerned. Remember that the US has big, big bombs. Um, duh, it spills out into the rest of the world because god picked us to lead the white people and blow up the other people.
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