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I hear people claim they are Conservative but do not identify themselves as Evangelicals. However, Evangelicals will claim you can't be a Conservative without being an Evangelical. So what defines Conservatism in this country? Do you have to believe in Christian Evangelical beliefs to call yourself a Conservative in this country? For example, can you approve of gay marriage and still be a Conservative if you endorse lower taxes and reduced government spending? Can you be a Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist Conservative?
Conservative can mean many things, it's usually politically related. Evangelical is a religious term. You can be both or you can be either of the terms, they aren't linked all the time.
Oh and to answer a few of your questions, I consider myself to be a strong conservative and that has nothing whatsoever to do with religion. I don't care what other people believe as long as they leave me alone. I fully endorse gay marriage and want to see DADT repealed, I am pro-life but I make an exception if the mother is a liberal because the less liberal raised children around the better. I want a smaller government and lower taxes.
There are fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. Social conservatives in the US tend to be evangelical Christians. You can be a fiscal or social conservative, or mix of both, without being Christian. Practicing Muslims tend to be very social conservative (family values, religious) their views.
Conservative can mean many things, it's usually politically related. Evangelical is a religious term. You can be both or you can be either of the terms, they aren't linked all the time.
No, they aren't definitively linked, but you'd have a hard time convincing some people of that. Far too many of my Christian brethren confuse their faith with their politics and charlatan's like Glenn Beck feed that confusion by deliberately mixing the two.
There have actually been times when people questioned how I could be a "good" Southern Baptist and a liberal, as if those things are mutually dependent.
I am conservative both fiscally and socially. I am not an Evangelical. I sure would like to see the OP post a link to this claim of Evangelicals stating that one cannot be Conservative without also being the former.
There have actually been times when people questioned how I could be a "good" Southern Baptist and a liberal, as if those things are mutually dependent.
I hear people claim they are Conservative but do not identify themselves as Evangelicals. However, Evangelicals will claim you can't be a Conservative without being an Evangelical. So what defines Conservatism in this country? Do you have to believe in Christian Evangelical beliefs to call yourself a Conservative in this country? For example, can you approve of gay marriage and still be a Conservative if you endorse lower taxes and reduced government spending? Can you be a Buddhist, Hindu or Atheist Conservative?
I think you're mixing up "conservative" and "Conservative".
They are not one in the same.
Of course there is a difference. Unfortunately politicians and pundits right try to polarize Americans as either moral-capitalists vs godless-commies or religious-nutbars vs smug common-sense.
I am non-religious yet politically ultra conservative. On the other hand there were some evangelicals who voted for Obama, especially younger church goers. So the two groups are not mutually exclusive.
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