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Sorry to disappoint you, but I never took the test. I just noticed that it was giving out impossible "results", such as the assertion that you can be conservative while trying to conttrol people's religious preferences; or thet you can be left-wing andd libetarian at the same time.
Garbage in, garbage out.
This "test" has been around for many years. Every few month, some newcomer trips over it, and thinks he's discoverd something new and wonderful, and publicizes it far and wide. It get routinely debunked, for the 3,487th time, and fades back into obscurity along with such fallacies as the Flat Earth, government charity, and inexpensive solar power.
Until the next naive newbie stumbles over it again.
Most attempts at controlling the religious views of others do come from political conservatives. One only needs to observe how the attempts to encode specific religious doctrines into a given culture, are matched by those same conservatives attempting to control other aspects of personal behavior.
As for the connection between libertarianism and the "left-wing", libertarianism has its historical roots in the political left. The term was originally used by French anarchic communists in the mid-Nineteenth Century. In most of the world, "libertarian" is understood to be synonymous with anarchistic socialism. It's really only in the The US and Canada (post-Ayn Rand) where the term has been co-opted into the realm of political conservatism.
I think the Political Compass scares a lot of people because it causes them to separate the liberal/conservative axis from the authoritarian/libertarian axis. I know many people on the political left, for example, who refuse to recognize that progressive social and economic beliefs can exist within the context of extreme authoritarianism. You would seem to be making that same assumption concerning the political right.
Most attempts at controlling the religious views of others do come from political conservatives. One only needs to observe how the attempts to encode specific religious doctrines into a given culture, are matched by those same conservatives attempting to control other aspects of personal behavior.
All in all, I liked your post, but I would, however, implore you to consider that the supression of religious views is highly characteristic of far-left regimes--isn't political/cultural suppression just another means to the end of control?
Expelling religion from a given culture is no less an attempt at controlling personal behavior than injecting religion into a culture. Authoritarians tend to exhibit very similar symptoms, no?
All in all, I liked your post, but I would, however, implore you to consider that the supression of religious views is highly characteristic of far-left regimes--isn't political/cultural suppression just another means to the end of control?
Expelling religion from a given culture is no less an attempt at controlling personal behavior than injecting religion into a culture. Authoritarians tend to exhibit very similar symptoms, no?
Yes, this is that silly, bogus "test" that tries to pretend you can be conservative and try to control people's religious preferences at the same time. Or that you can be left-wing and libertarian at the same time.
Garbage in, garbage out.
This "test" has been around for many years. Every few month, some newcomer trips over it, and thinks he's discoverd something new and wonderful, and publicizes it far and wide. It get routinely debunked, for the 3,487th time, and fades back into obscurity along with such fallacies as the Flat Earth, government charity, and inexpensive solar power.
Until the next naive newbie stumbles over it again.
All in all, I liked your post, but I would, however, implore you to consider that the supression of religious views is highly characteristic of far-left regimes--isn't political/cultural suppression just another means to the end of control?
Expelling religion from a given culture is no less an attempt at controlling personal behavior than injecting religion into a culture. Authoritarians tend to exhibit very similar symptoms, no?
Historically, the VAST MAJORITY of religious suppression has come from those believing in ANOTHER RELIGION (often only slightly different from the one they are suppressing) - whether it be Catholic suppressing Protestant, Protestant suppressing Catholic, Protestant suppressing Protestant, Christian suppressing Muslim, or Muslim suppressing Christian, overwhelmingly, it's RELIGIOUS folks who have suppressed OTHER RELIGIOUS folks.
Historically, the VAST MAJORITY of religious suppression has come from those believing in ANOTHER RELIGION (often only slightly different from the one they are suppressing) - whether it be Catholic suppressing Protestant, Protestant suppressing Catholic, Protestant suppressing Protestant, Christian suppressing Muslim, or Muslim suppressing Christian, overwhelmingly, it's RELIGIOUS folks who have suppressed OTHER RELIGIOUS folks.
Ken
Well gee, thanks, I could never have comprehended a single word of this without all of the REDUNDANT EMPHASIS.
Anyway, while all of the points you make are largely quite true, I'm referring mostly to dictatorial regimes of the 20th and 21st centuries (even though many of those have, of course, been indisputably theocratic).
According to this test, I'm actually almost dead center, just one unit towards the left and one unit down towards Libertarian. But the questions were so vague and not really appropriate for "agree" or "disagree" answers, that I don't put much stock in this categorization. It's more a fun game than anything.
I kind of wish they had a "neutral" choice myself. Some of the questions were too gray for the choices they provided.
I find this interesting, as I am considered "far right". I think this shows that I am very centrist, and most of those to the left of me are actually "far left".
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