Secular Right: Reality & Reason

I’d like to take a moment to welcome a new blog into the fray. Secular Right has several contributors, most of whom lean more towards the republican secular, rather than our brand of libertarian heathen. Still, I find it to be a thought provoking blog with a good conversation to offer, and Mod-willing I’ll be participating via comment and the occasional link from here. My main concern about the site is one of terminology. Language is extremely powerful in its ability to classify in a way that reorganizes the way the brain thinks. Limiting the political spectrum to two dimensions is what has put us in the straits we are in today. When we have only right, left, and center to describe a political ideology, we misrepresent the views of the majority of its members and create an us vs them psychology that leads to deadlock and animosity. To lump secular vs all of the various religions, environmentalism vs people-first, socialist vs free-market, progressive vs conservative, isolationist vs internationalist, etc. into a single two dimensional construct is counter productive to the conversation and demeans those who feel unrepresented by the two party system.