"Those who deny God's created order and purposes when it comes to human identity, sexual identity, and individuality are no friend to the civil society in the long run.
I have been toying with the philosophical mechanics of that,
@HoustonSam , and it seems to me that 'society' and its offshoot, 'culture' ... 'civility' if you will, is only there to provide one thing: A safe place for women to raise children. In its very root, that is why man's 'Hell on Wheels' at the head of the tracks must necessarily make way for quiet towns with safe streets... Picket fences flowers, shops, councilmen, constables, and magistrates... That is, in the end, what it is all *FOR* - A safe place for women and children.
If in fact that root dries up, there is nothing left but a predictable collapse, and in fairly short order.
They will inevitably turn on those who still believe that God is King of this world. This point has been lost on too many conservatives as they have welcomed haters of God and his moral order not only into their tent, but into their hearts and their minds — a self-deluded treachery of "openness" that has softy sounded the death knell of conservatism in America."
FACTS. Evil spreads not when good men do nothing - but rather, when good men compromise with evil. We are infested with it at every level now - even rural towns, the last bastions of America's heartland.
We argue back and forth here about Conservatism, what it means, and whether or not the American people are primarily Conservative. In my opinion the American people are *not* Conservative because we've fully adopted the pluralistic, un-Conservative idea that belief in and about God is entirely separate from social order. While the American people will quickly advocate for the desirable results of Conservatism, they continue to vote against Conservatives because the American people are *not* Conservatives; they just want some of the tangible results created by Conservative policies but without the fundamental recognition of what Man is capable of and incapable of.
"My people perish for a lack of knowledge."
Many who identify themselves as "Conservatives" argue about the political dimension of Conservatism, which is a mere outcome of a broader set of Conservative principles and ideals. The farther that political dimension strays from the fundamental Conservative belief in God-created social order, the more powerless and meaningless the political dimension becomes.
Precisely so. Those who would bend around the 'messy bits' and cherry-pick their hyphenated Conservatism do not understand that political Conservatism is there to keep government from intruding on REAL Conservatism, which is a way of life. Those things that are omitted by their hyphenation are precisely and predictably what government will use to grow, to flourish, and finally, to enslave them.
You can't pick and choose. It is all interwoven.
Good post.