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Now I'm sure this term will piss some people off, but its the best for the fit here. There is an arrogance in the liberal mind set of 'I know best' and its that arrogance which lets one 'change' their religion to fit their desires. Sure the Pope, the Cardinal, and the Priest all say abortion is murder but I know best, I know what God really wants, Its the way I feel that matters! The concept of being humble before god and gods law does not compute.
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I think Ustwo hit upon the crux of the distinction here. To the conservative, the liberal's statement that "I know what God really wants" is absurd, since the liberal doesn't know God.....any more than the conservative does (though they will often ignore that last part). To the liberal, the conservative's statements are all hogwash since "I know what God really wants".
I think this kind of separation is rampant in our society. However, rather than ditching the whole thing like Ustwo did, I try to take it somewhere in the middle - a religious "moderate", since we're using terms from the political realm. Hence, while I take the conservative stance that there are absolutions that cannot be ignored, I also take the liberal stance in that no one else has the right to tell me to make up my mind one way or another, or even to make up my mind at all.
I believe that anything more than this is dangerous, and I offer the myriad of religiously charged conflicts going on in our world as proof of this.