In working my way through material on the red tories for a paper on their economics (which is woefully thin and slips readily into moralising) I began noting a good number of ‘Enemies of the Faith’. So far I have the following, although the list is still growing:
1. Anything that starts with L
a. Liberalism (confused with left)
b. Left (confused with liberalism)
c. Libertarians (1960s – more confusion)
2. Big things
a. Secularism
b. Centralised state
c. Monopolised market
d. But not Christendom or the RCs
3. Scary Foreign things
a. Islam
b. China
4. Icky things
a. Abortion
b. Homosexuality
23 February, 2010 at 5:26 pm
I’m pretty sure you can put “Loving-kindness” under the L-words. And lesbians too, now that I thought about it.
And under icky things, pretty much anything having to do with sex or the body…
23 February, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Will update shortly …
24 February, 2010 at 6:27 am
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