Conservatives- Are they being out-flanked?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. I personally think it's a mistake to consider 'religion' to be in any sense precedential

(Most) religious people are not conservatives because they're religious, but rather conservatives are religious because they're conservatives.

This concept of a natural order/hierarchy (and being to inclined to 'fight' to be at the top of the hierarchy) goes back in our genetic heritage for many 10's of millions of years (if not hundreds of millions).

Religion was invented by man to 'support' this much deeper and evolutionarily older concept, and the people who are attracted to it instinctively more strongly believe in the 'sanctity', if you will, of a social hierarchy.

Apart from the even more basic need to 'live forever' (which nearly all religions proffer in some form) all Religions basically hand a person a ready-made sense that they belong at a higher social rung ... than a great many others. That they are 'more deserving'. That they are 'chosen' by the being who's at the VERY TOP of the ultimate hierarchy.

I shouldn't have to mention how paradoxical it makes the situation where they love the 'Founders' so much, given that they were essentially radical liberals for their time, and that 'all men are created equal' is entirely antithetical to what most of them instinctively believe.