It's not cognitive dissonance it's exasperation at your insistence that I defend a position you created(wished) for me to have and blithely disregard all my efforts to correct your error.
I'm sorry but economically there is no room for a middle-ground approach and it's the economics that invades our reality.
Otherwise I wouldn't care one whit what stupid philosophies people entertain.
So who put the thistle in your panties ? I stated my bias(anti-liberal) that's the fact (since you evidently missed it).
I find it rather amusing that this fact vexes you so much.
Please show me where I have given credence to fear is what drives people to god?
Rational people reading the above post would correctly presume I don't.
You are the one who keeps inventing positions for me: how about not trying to be a liberal piece of shit for once, you might learn...
You still don't get it do you ?
I said you think "fear is what drives people to god"?
I contend that's not true.
Then you said it was a common indoctrination tool and it was used on you.
Using you as a case in point the tool didn't match with the drive, and now you are a bitter atheist.
If having knowledge of cause and effect is blasphemy and sacrilege to your religion then I suppose I'm guilty as charged. Good thing LIEbral atheism is not my religion nor the law of the land.
Your point is kinda moot since those beliefs are a strawman argument you have attributed to me.
I can assure you it's not my beliefs that are wildly misplaced with respect to reality, so guess who's are? (as evidenced by your post)
Somehow I think you are going to be disappointed with that final destination you have set up for yourself.
Hey , but we all get a mixture of what we need and deserve in this life.
Honestly the above is an ideal inconsistent with the welfare state.
Stupidly trying to both will simply bankrupt us faster than an isolated welfare state.
I prefer we forgo the welfare state in it's entirety and try to live the direction our founding fathers pointed us rather than follow...
Everyone makes gaffes, but ultimately it's the core beliefs of liberals that I think are stupid.
Instead of making a laundry list of stupid stuff I'll just stick to pointing it out when it comes up, so unwad your panties liberals.
Any day now futurecurrents is gonna fling himself off a bridge and I'll be charged with a hate crime: kinda makes feel good inside to do a good deed for humanity.:D