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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: jttmab who wrote (209996)12/6/2006 2:10:56 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Thank you for exploring the issues Iktomi should have.

Brooks made several points. His primary point was that religiousity is very strongly associated with generosity. But he also depicted liberals as decidedly less charitable tahn conservatives:

"Brooks writes that the very act of receiving welfare may make recipients more liberal - and hence less likely to give."

Also:

".. households headed by a conservative give roughly 30 percent more to charity each year than households headed by a liberal, despite the fact that the liberal families on average earn slightly more."

Now, he also said:

"Religious liberals give nearly as much as religious conservatives, Mr. Brooks found. And secular conservatives are even less generous than secular liberals."

The rub is that while conservatives include healthy shares of both religious and non-religious folks, liberals are overwhelmingly non-religious. People who are truly religious and truly liberal are simply a very small group.

The claim that liberalism eroes character is my own opinion. I find a primary difference between non-religious liberals and non-religious conservatives to be the attitude to our culture's traditional religiously derived moral values (virtues and vices). Non-religious conservatives are generally respectful of traditional values recognizing that they serve as good and useful guides to conduct regardless of whether one shares the religious beliefs that originally produced them. Liberals tend to be dismissive of traditional values at best and contemptuous and hostile at worst.
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