(October 13, 2011 at 12:09 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote:(October 13, 2011 at 11:58 am)5thHorseman Wrote: How long has conservatism been synonymous with religion?
Ever since royalty found religion to be a good excuse for total supremecy of their family lineage.
"In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns on the heads of thieves, called kings."
-- Col Robert Ingersoll (1884)
Quoted for truth.
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.'