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As mentioned in the first edit seemingly somehow missed by both the site's edit tracker and you, it stayed in the doctrine, returning to relevance in the Protestant Reformation with the sparking of quite a few full-on wars. To associate the sentiment with a common criticism of atheists, the...

Ask historians studying Mesopotamian history, or the Buddhists who consider doing too much good wrong for getting in the way of ceasing to exist. There's been lots of times that morality didn't contain a particularly significant "afterlife" imperative. And having literally all the rules set...

Early Protestants in general, really, not just Puritans. You also had "first-wave" Protestant denominations kicked out by Catholic rulers, a few Catholics kicked out by the Anglican schism, the Quakers were originally from England as well, loads of different religiously-motivated emigrants. Then...

Then you are not an American Originalist because the hot mess that was the start of this country was rather painfully aware of Christian sectarian bullshit. The legal foundation is Deist at most because contemporary disagreements on doctrine rendered religion so completely useless as a basis for...

Again, "Paleoconservative" vs. "Neoconservative" is rather important to note. This was seriously The Big Question for Republicans back in the '60s through the '90s, of full-blast "roots-only" isolationist/pacifist conservatism or adjusting to the quite radically different material conditions by...

It's called "Paleoconservative", funnily enough, because the "Neoconservatives" that are now just the Red-Team Window Dressing for the "country club" uniparty got almost all the party machinery and media attention. Indeed, Reagan is one of the icons of the Neocon economic policy with the whole...