We Must Work with Atheists to Defeat the Left
America is is where the West will make its last stand, or else begin to turn the tide. The rest of the Anglosphere appears lost. It is falling asleep under the soporific of 'wokeism,' the latest and most virulent form of the leftist virus. To assure victory we theists need to work with atheist conservatives. I agree with the following characterization of conservatism, apparently written by Jillian Becker, at The Atheist Conservative:
B. On Conservatism
1. Individual freedom is the necessary condition for prosperity, innovation, and adaptation, which together ensure survival.
2. A culture constituted for individual freedom is superior to all others.
3. Only the Conservative policies of the post-Enlightenment Western world are formulated to protect individual freedom.
4. Individual freedom under the rule of non-discriminatory law, a free market economy, the limiting of government power by democratic controls and constitutional checks and balances, and strong national defense are core Conservative policies.
A conservatism along these lines navigates a sane middle path between leftism and reactionary, throne-and-altar conservatism.
I am a theist. But as I have repeatedly maintained over the years, atheism is a reasonable position. The reasonable is not the same as the true. The reasonable is sometimes false, and the true is sometimes unreasonable. To ascertain the truth is not easy. Reason is a weak reed indeed. And despite my use of 'ascertain,' if we attain the truth we are rarely if ever certain that we have when the truths pertain to substantive matters. Humility is not just a moral virtue; it is an epistemic one as well.
Nowadays there is talk of a 'post-liberal' conservatism. We shall have to take a close look at that. On a preliminary perusal it is a form of reaction insusceptible of resurrection, as a matter of fact, and even if patient of resuscitation, not worthy of it. It is a Lazarus that won't be raised and ought not be.
I have heard it said that a conservatism infused with classical liberalism is 'unstable' and will inevitably transmogrify into the madness of 'wokeism.' But that is a slippery slope argument, and they are all of them invalid.