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'Fiscal' Conservatism Needs 'Social' Conservatism

WRH Bill Wrote: Jan 22, 2013 3:14 PM

rmccarthy, have you read "The Abolition of Man" by C.S. Lews? Though a famous proponent of Christianity, Lewis was not so ignorant as to believe that all morality was invented by or "stolen from" the Judeo-Christian belief system (which seems to be what you mean by "stolen from God".) Lewis includes in the book a section on what he calls "the Tao" or natural law, showing that the same moral rules recur in many different belief systems, including pre-Christian paganism and non-theistic Chinese Confucianism.

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'Fiscal' Conservatism Needs 'Social' Conservatism

For some years now, we have been told about a major division within American conservatism: fiscal conservatives vs. social conservatives.

This division is hurting conservatism and hurting America -- because the survival of American values depends on both fiscal and social conservatism. Furthermore, the division is logically and morally untenable. A conservative conserves all American values, not just economic ones.

By "social conservatism," I am referring to the second and third components of what I call the American Trinity -- liberty, "In God We Trust" and "E Pluribus Unum."

It is worth noting that a similar bifurcation does not exist on the left. One...

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