Comments on: The Left Conservative’s Dylan Hales on the Late Paul Weyrich http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/2008/12/22/the-left-conservatives-dylan-hales-on-the-late-paul-weyrich/ Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:20:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Lofton, Recover http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/2008/12/22/the-left-conservatives-dylan-hales-on-the-late-paul-weyrich/comment-page-1/#comment-4689 John Lofton, Recover Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:27:31 +0000 http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/?p=755#comment-4689 Forget "conservatism," please. It has been Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson's Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago: "[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth." Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2). John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com Recovering Republican JLof@aol.com Forget “conservatism,” please. It has been Godless and therefore irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God both are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:

“[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”

Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).

John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com

]]> By: roho http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/2008/12/22/the-left-conservatives-dylan-hales-on-the-late-paul-weyrich/comment-page-1/#comment-4670 roho Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:56:04 +0000 http://southernavenger.ccpblogs.com/?p=755#comment-4670 Good article Jack. "Now abysmal Heritage Foundation" is correct. And the spinoffs such as "Townhall.Com" drew me in before I understood that Neocons wern't conservatives in my oppinion at all, but a collective bargaining unit of Israel Firsters!.....I agree on your points regarding WFB as well.(He was hijacked as well.) The sooner the Neocons return to the Democratic Party, the better off we will be. Good article Jack. “Now abysmal Heritage Foundation” is correct. And the spinoffs such as “Townhall.Com” drew me in before I understood that Neocons wern’t conservatives in my oppinion at all, but a collective bargaining unit of Israel Firsters!…..I agree on your points regarding WFB as well.(He was hijacked as well.)

The sooner the Neocons return to the Democratic Party, the better off we will be.

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