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Conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Combine the genetic influences on personality with the political tendencies of different personality types, and the idea that genetics shapes political tendencies seems very plausible indeed. ... Are liberal/conservative political beliefs heritable?
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Last Friday, a federal district court in New York ruled that political science professor Michael Filozof may proceed to trial with his claim against Monroe Community College (MCC). Filozof alleges that MCC violated his First Amendment rights when it did not renew his contract because of his conservative political beliefs.
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The researchers said that conservative ideologies, like virtually all belief systems, develop in part because they satisfy some psychological needs, but that "does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false, irrational, or unprincipled."
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Although relatively young, at my present age of 26 years, I find myself struggling to reconcile my beliefs and political temperament into a more structured and cohesive package. ... Am I conservative? Of course. I voted for George W. Bush twice, am a regular listener to right-centric talk radio, and regularly frequent...
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gain, there is an extensive literature on the psychology of extreme political beliefs. ... Hofstadter argues that such ideas, although now discredited as sound extensions of Darwin's theories, have been a powerful, if sometimes implicit, foundation of some aspects of modern social thought and of conservative ideology.
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Over the next few weeks I am going to try to delineate the beliefs of the three groups in Methodism, liberal, moderate, and conservative. This week I want to attempt to describe the conservative position on the incarnation, atonement, resurrection, human nature, scripture and Christian ethics.
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