The neo-cons generally hold the position that religion is a good thing for the less enlightened "lower orders." That was the position of political philosopher Leo Strauss, who was an atheist, and who had great influence over the thinking of Bill Kristol's dad, Irving.
-- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
On Apr 14, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Charles Brown wrote:
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> "It's one thing for Karl Marx to assert that "religion is the sigh of
> the oppressed creature" and another for Barack Obama to claim that we
> "cling to ... religion" out of economic frustration."
"we?" I assume Kristol is an atheist. So why is he "clinging to religion?"
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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