re: #257 Slumbering Behemoth

They hope to come out on the top of the heap, running the show. It’s not the freedom to hold their own beliefs that concerns them, it’s the freedom for others to hold beliefs that differ from theirs. This is how they disregard the Constitution and the values that are at the very foundation of our country.

Freedom means other people get to make decisions you don’t like.

I think the most important aspect to come out of the Enlightenment was Freedom of Conscience. That man was free to follow his own conscience on matters of faith and politics was an enormous advance for Western Civilization, and one of the reasons I oppose fundamentalist islam.

But I think something happened between the euro-fascists and the intelligent design movement. That was when I noticed not everyone was opposed to the islamists for the same reasons I was. Some people have no problem infringing upon our freedom of conscience, so long as they approve. And some people have no problem stopping a form of religious fundamentalism but not others, simply because they agree with one over the other- not because they have a principled stance opposing all infringement on freedom of conscience. I see this same issue playing out in the GOP as a whole at this time. Charlatans would like us to think they’re on our side, but in reality, we’re useful idiots if we don’t see them for what they are.