If you want to know why I'm conservative in both my politics and my theology, you will find Malcolm Muggeridge's piece on the liberal death wish fairly expressive of my thinking.
Once you eliminate the notion of a God, a creator, once you eliminate the notion that the creator has a purpose for us, and that life consists essentially in fulfilling that purpose, then you are bound, as Pascal points out, to induce the megalomania of which we've seen so many manifestations in our time - in the crazy dictators, as in the lunacies of people who are rich, or who consider themselves to be important or celebrated in the western world. Alternatively, human beings relapse into mere carnality, into being animals.
There's more - much more - and even if you don't want to know why I'm conservative, it's worth reading.
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