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cold asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 9 years ago

Is liberalism a religion?

Do the dogmatic tenets of liberalism remind you of the very institution--religion--liberalism claims to have no use for? Liberals pretentiously claim a false sense of moral and intellectual superiority by calling everyone not in lockstep with their views "sheeple", yet they fail to realize that liberalism itself resembles a religion. The words "heresy" and "blasphemy" are replaced with "racist" and "homophobe", and Obama is the messiah.

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  • 9 years ago
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    No. Liberalism is an intellectual philosophy. Conservatives try to claim liberalism is a religion in order to portray liberals as irrational fanatics, like many of the devout followers of religion. They also claim Obama to be a liberal messiah just so they can claim Obama is a failure when he doesn't deliver miracle cures for all the country's ills.

    Conservatives can't compete with liberals in honest debate, so they often resort to slander and deliberate mischaracterizations of what it means to be a liberal in order to undermine their arguments.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Measured by the fervor of liberals to their dogma it is most certainly a religion -- a "hell fire" religion so eloquently professed by Obama's preacher of 20 years: "No, not God Bless America, but God Damn Amerika!"

    But liberalism is also a mental defect over which demcrats have not control:

    -10/28/10 NBC news: University of California at Davis and Harvard University find “Liberal Gene” as partial answer as to why liberals think the way they they do.

    Thus liberals/demcrats are bound to hate our Constitution:

    -2/4/10 Gallup poll: 61% of liberals have a positive view of socialism.

    -6/2/11 Gallup poll: 71% of democrats favor re-distributing wealth.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Something conservatives oppose.

  • a cult maybe, but it is most definitely a mental disease that causes dislike for Free Enterprise, the Private Sector and a love for Big Govt

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Nope. But conservatism is a mental disorder.

  • 9 years ago

    Good Point - Debating Obama's ideas is considered racist by Liberals - I see your point.

  • 9 years ago

    No.

    A Mental Disorder.

    Major symptoms: "Never My Fault" and "Entitlement".

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    nope.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    no

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