I personally find it hard to fathom the liberal mindset, finding it more hard to believe that anyone called by the name of Christ to vote the Democratic ticket. You can't have it both ways. "Righteousness exsaults a nation, but sin is a reproach to all peoples." See for yourself what the Demoncra666tic ticket stands for. Then compare there ways to Gods ways, then ask yourself this question; "Can you have a Liberal mindset and be a Christian?"

I am not advocating to be anti-liberal when it comes to righteousness;

1 Corinthians 13"1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of
prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all
faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11 When I
was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason
like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12 For
now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in
part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.
13 But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Christianity is not a doctrine but a life. You have to live it... You were chosen. Before the foundations of the world, you were chosen. Just as God chose Abram, that he should be the father of many nations, we as Christians were also chosen to be a separate people, "The Kingdom of God." As Jesus said that we should be perfect, as His Father in heaven "is" perfect. It is not possible for a mere man to obtain perfection, absent from Christ. Even then our Righteousness is not our own but from and through Christ Jesus. Before the law, men lived by faith,

"Hebrews 10... 36 For you need endurance, so that
after you have done God's will you can receive what he has promised. 37 For “in a very
little while the one who is coming will return—he will not delay;

38 but
my righteous one will live by faith, and if he turns back, my soul will take no pleasure in him.”

39Now, we do not belong to
those who turn back and are destroyed, but to those who have faith and are
saved.

Just as God brought the Hebrew people out of Egypt and gave them Law in which to live because of there rebelion towards Him. They wanted to be liberated from God. Is it any different today? Men want to be free. Free from what? Ezekiel 20... 4 “Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Make them know the abominations of their fathers;
5 and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,
“On the day when I chose Israel and swore to the descendants of the
house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, when
I swore to them, saying, I am the LORD your God,
6 on that day I
swore to them, to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land
that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the
glory of all lands.
7 “I said to
them, ‘Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and
do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.’
8 “But they
rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not
cast away the detestable things of their eyes, nor did they forsake the
idols of Egypt.
Then I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
9 “But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
10 “So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness.
11 “I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.
12 “Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
13 “But the
house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not
walk in My statutes and they rejected My ordinances, by which, if a man
observes them, he will live; and My sabbaths they greatly profaned.

We as Christians are held to a higher standard, but even so if we as Christians practice the things that God detests; Ezekiel 18...
24 “But
when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits
iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man
does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not
be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin
which he has committed; for them he will die.
25 “Yet you
say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Hear now, O house of Israel!
Is My way not right? Is it not your ways that are not right?
26 “When a
righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and
dies because of it, for his iniquity which he has committed he will
die.
27 “Again, when
a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and
practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.
28 “Because he
considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had
committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

and condone these abominations,

Leviticus 18... 21 ‘You shall not give any of your offspring to offer them to Molech, "sacrificing their first-borns, those who did were stoned to death" nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am the LORD.
22 ‘You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination. 29 ‘For whoever does any of these abominations, those persons who do so shall be cut off from among their people. Leviticus 20.... 1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
2 “You shall also say to the sons of Israel: ‘Any
man from the sons of Israel or from the aliens sojourning in Israel who
gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death; the
people of the land shall stone him with stones.
3 ‘I will also
set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his
people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so as to
defile My sanctuary and to profane My holy name.
4 ‘If the
people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he
gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,
5 then I
Myself will set My face against that man and against his family, and I
will cut off from among their people both him and all those who play
the harlot after him, by playing the harlot after Molech

Be ye therefore perfect, as God is perfect; for the righteous live by faith...

Romans 1...16 For I am not
ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to
everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.”18 For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20 For since the
creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and
divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what
has been made, so that they are without excuse.
21 For even
though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but
they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was
darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged
the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of
corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling
creatures. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
25 For they
exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26 For
this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women
exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the
same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and
burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing
indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of
their error.

28 And
just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave
them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful;
32 and although
they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are
worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty
approval to those who practice them.

Liberalism teaches that you as an individual do not have the ability to make decisions for yourself, there someone has to make them for you. You do not know how to spend your time, your money, or operate a business. That is the role of government and the liberal elites to manage your affairs and govern your life... because you can't.

Conservatives on the other hand believe that you, and you alone posess the ability to be all that you can be, "If" you are willing to work hard, make sound decisions and are willing to sacrifice for what you want out of life, without government intervention.

2 Timothy 1...7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Liberalism vs. Conservatism

An Emotional Ideology vs. A Rational Ideology

Posted by: ToddH

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 09:40AM CDT

This is a topic that has interested me as of late: the idea that
liberalism is an emotional ideology whereas conservatism is, at its
root, rational.

I've detailed previously that my earlier attachment to
liberalism was based upon emotions, most particularly that of envy,
and that my turn to conservatism was based upon a careful process
of research and rational thought. In my opinion any intellectual
examination of the world and society can do nothing but lead the
reasonable person to accept conservatism. I've also noticed this
emotional attachment in liberals in my opposition to a recent
poster on this forum who has in the last two days attempted to stir
up trouble (you know who you are Mason-Dixon troll!).

Follow with me.

Anytime I hear or read a liberal argument for a particular topic
it is always based upon emotion. Think about taxes. The liberal
will say that lower taxes are unfair and benefits the wealthy more
than the middle-class or poor, while the conservative will say that
lower taxes stimulates the economy and actually aids the
middle-class and poor because it helps lower prices and create new
jobs. Notice the difference? Which one is based upon emotion and
which is rational?

Consider abortion. The liberal says that it is unfair to subject
a woman to a child she does not want and is a form of sexist
oppression, while the conservatives states that we as a nation must
defend the sanctity of life because a nation that does not do this
is a nation that will invite any type of immorality in society.
Again, notice the difference? Which one is emotional and which is
rational?

Liberals are typically driven by envy and anger. They are
envious of the "haves" and their ideology is based upon the anger
they feel at being "left out." They do not think rationally about
how best to create the economics of opportunity, rather they go
with their gut and attempt to make everything fair and balanced.
They do not seek to create opportunity, but driven by envy and
anger they seek to impose equality. That is why liberals are
typically so persuasive when it comes to economics. They use the
politics of fear and class envy as defenses of their economic
precepts, whereas the common-sensical and rational defenses of the
conservative method of economics is lost in the maelstrom.

We can even look at their beliefs concerning foreign policy.
They use emotional images of collateral damage and poverty
worldwide to justify their positions, whereas the conservative
speaks of the spread of democracy and the safeguarding of national
security. Again, as of late, this has also been lost in the
maelstrom of exploitive emotional images.

It is in no coincidence that liberals also tend to be extremely
idealistic and their naked, blind idealism is a major aspect of the
foundations of their ideology. Their idealism informs their foreign
policy, from believing that if we left the rest of the world alone
and just talked to monstrous dictators that their hearts can be
changed, to their economics, if we just make the economy more fair
that economic equality can be achieved and everyone can enjoy the
benefits of the materialistic society. William Buckley said it
best, "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs
become prohibitive."

Reality is anathema to modern liberals, much as rational thought
is as well. Conservatives understand the reality of the world and
society. Conservatives realize that attempts to achieve economic
equality are impossible and attempts to impose this equality would
be disastrous to the economy. Conservatives also realize that
dictators and terrorists are driven by their own emotions and
self-interest and no degree of isolationism or dialogue will ever
change their hearts. The prohibitive costs of idealism can be seen
in World War II, the fall of the Shah, and the horror of 9/11.

Benjamin Disrael in 1848 stated, "My objection to Liberalism is
this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of
life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas
instead of political principles." Ideas. Emotions. Idealism. Not
principles. Not reason. Not reality. Liberals also deal in the
abstract and conservatives in the concrete. Conservatives recognize
common sense principles that are based upon experience, tradition,
and reason as the bedrocks of economic and foreign policy. That is
why they believe in lower taxes, less government intervention, and
a strong military and national defense. They recognize the reality
of the world and their principles are based upon a reasonable
examination of this reality. Liberals are the complete opposite.
There is no reasonable defense of liberalism, and any honest
individual who examines this ideology can reach no other
conclusion. Their beliefs are based upon abstract philosophical
ideas because there are no practical applications of liberalism.
Ask a liberal how best to impose economic equality? Ask a liberal
how best to achieve a liberal foreign policy? They will not speak
of practical applications, but will rather explain in emotional,
empty platitudes.

David Horowitz once said that it was a revelation to him when he
realized that to apply economic redistribution of wealth was to
impose the equality of poverty, that socialism for all its
emotional idealism had no concept of how to create wealth, but only
of how to distribute that wealth. Liberals seek to redistribute the
wealth in order to achieve a fair society, but it is in practical
applications of conservative economics that achieves that wealth.
At some point reason must prevail!

To reiterate: liberalism is based upon emotions, ideas, and
idealism; and conservativism is based upon reason, principles, and
reality. Any reasonable person can see this, it is just too bad
that liberals are not reasonable individuals.