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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2074)	9/13/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

The State is to some degree responsive to the people, to the extent that the people actually assert their right to organize and express their political will. To whom is religion accountable? To a small group of humans who are convinced that whatever they think must be truth because their thinking it means that it must come from God. Do we really want these people wielding any influence over our lives? If some people want to place themselves voluntarily under their influence, I suppose that is their right, but they are hardly entitled to impose that influence on others. The sources of conservative wisdom are custom, convention, and tradition. Of course every generation is convinced that the custom's conventions, and traditions of their time are some sort of eternal verities. Amazing how many Americans believe that sexual license was invented in the 1960s... Edit: It may be worthwhile to note that virtually all human progress has stemmed from those who dared to defy custom, convention, and tradition. I am not saying that all defiance of c, c, and t is progress, but that progress would be impossible if we allowed ourselves to be bound by them.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (2074)	9/14/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6418

Thomas Carlyle, "Heroes and Hero Worship"; Matthew Arnold, "Culture and Anarchy"; G.K. Chesterton,"Orthodoxy"; T.S. Eliot, "Notes Towards the Definition of Culture"; Richard Weaver, "Ideas Have Consequences"; Robert Penn Warren, Allan Tate, et al, "I'll Take My Stand"; Russell Kirk,"The Conservative Mind"; Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Possessed"; William Golding,"Lord of the Flies"; C.S. Lewis,"That Hideous Strength"; Whittaker Chambers,"Witness"; George Orwell,"1984"; and there are many more.....