Is the "Religious Right" through attacking the American way of life?

Question

America was founded on the principals of Liberalism a doctrine stressing the importance of human rationality, individual property rights, natural rights, constitutional limitations of government, the protection of civil liberties and individual freedom from restraint as exemplified in the writings of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Jeremy Bentham, and John Stuart Mill.
The Classic Liberalism our country was founded on has been under attack by hypocritical moralizers in the guise of religion.

All of the exemplars of Liberalism I mentioned with the exception of JS Mill were indeed alive at the time of the American Revolution and their ideas were certainly part of the grand scheme of the founders.
This is not an attack on religion, but on the political special interest group which calls itself the "Religious Right" but is actually the whore of the GOP. They are certainly NOT about morality or religion, considering the homosexual prostitution and adultery among their top preachers.
Note also that I am speaking about Classical Liberalism and not Modern Liberalism.

Answer 1

There has been a lot of discussion lately about freedom OF religion vs freedom FROM religion. In the real world, it is impossible to have one without the other. If one wants to be free to worship as they see fit (freedom of religion), one cannot attempt to impose their religious tenets upon others, thus violating their freedom to worship (or not to - freedom from religion).

Those who answered before me, speaking of God in the Founders documents and/or Christianity as the primary religion are sadly mistaken. If you reread the Declaration and Constitution, the only mentions of a supreme being are "Creator" and "Nature's God", neither of which specifically imply a Christian God. If our founders were truly Christian, why is there no mention of Jesus, the cornerstone of Christianity? Fact is, they were not. Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson were all Deists, not Christians.

As far as the "Religious Right" attacking the American way of life, they are doing no more damage than the "Radical Left". Both have gone so far afield that moderates, which constitute the vast majority of Americans, are left without a voice. This is the most heinous attack on the "American way of life".

Liberals and conservatives have strayed so far from the ideals that neither is recognizable as such. The people you mention are good classic liberals. Some more good examples of classic liberals are Friedrich Hayek, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

Answer 2

The American way of life as you put it, was founded on Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom from State Supported Religion.

If you would have taken the time to read the Preamble to the Constitution, God is all over it and every other document our founding Fathers put their names on. The Religious Right as you call it, is a traditional group who believe in traditional values, like family, freedom of religion, and all the other freedoms we have. Its the far left that thinks we cant make up our minds for ourselves, to heck with family values, cause to them, family is Adam and Steve, and not the male/female traditional family.

Do some research before you step out and spout political garbage.

Answer 3

I am glad you referred to "classic" liberalism as opposed to modern liberalism. today's liberal thinkers are socialists, they reject the ideals of Adam Smith. The democratic party has absorbed socialists and communist into their fold and has mislabeled them as liberals. Classic liberals Adam Smith and John Mills would not recognize modern liberalism. In fact; Milton Freedman. completely rejected modern liberalism and was thought to be a Conservative by modern liberals (democrates). Milton Freedman may have been the last "Classic Liberal" of any note. So if you infer that liberals of today espouse principles of classic liberalism. You are totally wrong...Modern liberals have done more than any other interest group to usurp democratic ideals and in the process redefine the word "liberal" in the same way they redefined the word "welfare" to fit their selfish ends at the expense of the culture at large which they detest and attack with malice and misguided purpose.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I think you need to go back and re-study your sources...they most definitely were not proponents of liberalism in the modern sense...especially Adam Smith (having read the "Wealth of Nations" twice).

Answer 6

Uh, as far as I know yes we were founded on the idea of freedom, but it has come down to freedom FROM religion not freedom of it as it was meant to be. So who is attacking who?

Answer 7

And those guys were alive in 1776? Your public school lack of education is showing.

Answer 8

Just your opinion and I disagree. Who makes you pray or believe in anything? you have a problem with conservative Christianity and that is were you are coming from.

Answer 9

I never knew morality was such a bad thing-

Answer 10

Smoke 'em if you got 'em, huh?