Religion, weather you believe in it or not, is true. And as such, if the Bible says it, it's true.
Also, the Bible was written by man; small anti-women statements were probably edited for the sake of maintiainging power.
Well I hope that the bible is not true. I would prefer not to be ruled by a celestial totalitarian overlord who sees everything I do, and decides everything concerning me and my world. That thought scares me, especially when that totalitarian overlord "is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." I'm quoting Richard Dawkins.
I meant france today.
Uh, okay. What French (popular) policies are you refering to? The refusal to follow US to the criminal, mass-murderous war in Iraq?
That's fascism.
At least the fascists supported some social programs. In conservative neoliberalism, we have no rights -- dogs and cats have rights, because no decent person tortures cats or dogs -- bu humans have no rights beyond what they can afford in the markets.
We argue that corporations will rise and fall with the tide, there is little need for gov't intervention.
No, conservatives are corporatists. They argue that the economy should be completely controlled by private totalitarian institutions, unaccountable and unregulated by any democratic institution. They also want to crush labour organization or render it impossible. And also, they want to dissolve the government's democratic institutions by making them unresponsive to the public. Furthermore, they want completely unregulated brainwashing, deception and manpulation by business (advertisement). In the end, actually, the conservatives are a lot like marxists.
Also, there's quite a good book you might want to read: the conservative nanny state. Google it. It's readily available.
We aregye that we need the military to protect us, not to crush us.
No, the conservatives argue that the violent institutions of government should have wide and unchecked powers. And also, they've advocated this elsewhere: in Haiti, Chile and various other places. So their rhetoric is far from the reality.
We argeue for individuality, not against it.
No you don't. The right wing "induviduality" is total nonsense, because they advocate polices and worship institutions, like the military, business firm, and the church and the patrhical family, which are completely non-induvidualistic and demand conformity, and seek to regiment the masses.
The churhc provides morality.
I see no truth to this statement: the church is a man-made institution, not guided by any absolute morality. Furthermore, the conservatives simply use religion and fundamentalism to foster irrational attidutes of conformity to authority, and they create mindless slogans like "flIp-fLop", "SUpport the troop!z!", "godless commie!", "fRee-marketz magics" in order to stifle dissent to the abusive nature of conservative policies abroad and at home.
There is natural law to consider. Power stems from three sources: God, People, and Natural Law.
Elementary morality stems from human nature. We all beleive in elementary moral values, because I believe they are an innate human faculty, but what is crucial is that our perception of the world and our interests are manipulated by power and elite institutions such as corporations which control the media.
