I just skimmed the first page but I think it is safe to assume the authors answer is yes. Of course the hard right thinks the fame of the left. Not much to build a dialog on.
"Fundamentalist religion plays a big role in today's Republican party--but has it gone even further, spreading dangerous beliefs as articles of faith?
As the American right lurches from traditional conservatism – a go-slow approach to governing that stresses the importance of continuity and social stability – to a far more reactionary brand typified by acolytes of Ayn Rand and Tea Party extremists waving misspelled signs decrying Democrats' "socialism," the time has come to ask whether modern “backlash” conservatism has become a religious faith rather than a pedestrian political ideology.
I read the article earlier today and don't agree entirely with the author. I don't think most conservatives, even hard-right conservatives, worship political ideology. However, since the political hard-right is heavily populated with fundamentalist Christians, it should come as no surprise that their mindset towards politics should have an unbending, inflexible fundamentalist slant and that "heresy" to any point of belief would be harshly attacked by persons with this outlook and worldview.
So it's heretical to consider or discuss anything that wasn't published on an orthodox right wing source? Kind of the way some Christians would refuse to consider or discuss something from the Koran or a Hindu sacred text?
Hmmm.
Maybe I should have given the author more credit than I did for nailing this.
But you left out the Sutras of Buddhism. BTW not all on the Right are Christians or religious zealots, any more than those on the left, being all Atheists.
Nmysys wrote: But you left out the Sutras of Buddhism. BTW not all on the Right are Christians or religious zealots, any more than those on the left, being all Atheists.
I didn't say you did, just pointed out that not all are Christians. I, for one would enjoy an actual debate of other religions, maybe under the rules that were set out in another thread.
Its alternet. See the link for a little on what they are.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlterNet
