Tag: Religion in America

The Irony of an Anti-Liberal Republican Party: Synthesis of Republicanism and Conservatism, not Possible

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U.S. conservative movement in its early history did not even like the Republican Party. “…if you read David Brooks’s columns, what he espouses could be called conservative but is certainly very different than what William F. Buckley has espoused. And Buckley has written that if the Republicans want to be a governing party they need … Continue reading The Irony of an Anti-Liberal Republican Party: Synthesis of Republicanism and Conservatism, not Possible

John Adams on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism

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The words of John Adams, second President of the United States (1797–1801) and the first Vice President (1789–97) on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism. “The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients, … Continue reading John Adams on Religion in the United States, Quakers, Jesuitism, and Machiavellianism