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Originally Posted by Badmutha
Welcome (your name here) (D)--You pick the topic--make your leftist argument--and I shall begin the destruction of of your liberal ideology. With any luck you might become a conservative after being embarrased so badly. Well what are you waiting for comrade--come get some.
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Harold Ockenga suggested that in the conservative tradition there has been a movement from fundamentalism to neo-evangelicalism and ultimately to evangelicalism... My general impression is that all of these distinctions are overdrawn...
When someone refers to himself/herself as a conservative, which part of this complicated web of contradictions does he/she belong?
Basically, we are talking about conservative Protestantism in the United States, which is in general derived from three traditions: (1) conservative Lutheran and Calvinist groups, (2) the pietist traditions, and (3) indigenous American Churches... So, Mr. Badmutha, where do you belong in this complicated conservative web? Once that is made clear, the debate can begin...