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Novak: “What is difficult to believe is that any one of us—you, me, or Heather—knows more than God does about His love for every individual. He called each other out from nothingness, having known each of us by name, ‘from before Time was.’ We are not God’s judge. He is ours.”
What makes this discussion so weird is that both parties call themselves conservatives. Yet conservatism (as a real political philosophy, not the worship of Dear Leader Bush) has its roots sunk deep in revealed religion, the divine right of kings, and the maintenance of stable traditional social order. The idea that any individual, no matter how humble, could reason things out on his or her own, was and is subversive of the social order conservatives wanted to protect. Voltaire prudently lived across the border, not in France.
