I'm a liberal. You know, you know, you found me out, I'm outing myself....
Not politically, not necessarily, it depends really, and too often it's just the lesser of two evils. But generally, in that I welcome and accept contradictory philosophies and viewpoints upon the world. Diversity, to a point, is the key and joy to existence. While I might not think or believe or act the same as you I want a society where we can each be ourselves, within the limits of freedom. You broaden my world.
But Conservatives, well, their view is different. They welcome anyone who shares their worldview (even if their worldview excludes them, and I'm amazed by how many black/Indian/Pakistani Conservatives there are...clearly they don't understand). But those who don't are to be excluded, suspected, condemned (and, in Alberta, Liberal is as much an epitaph as it is a description...). Conservatives, by their nature, welcome a world that conforms to their expectations, behave as they wish, and silences/persuades/intimidates all opposition into thinking the same. People of color (different color, than them), of faith (different, than them), are generally not welcome. The phrase "Progressive Conservative" is as much an oxymoron as "Military Intelligence" or "Microsoft Works".
Religion, by it's very nature, is Conservative. It's the unquestioned accepting of inherited belief and cultural determinations. The more conservative the religion, the more it seeks to proselytize others. Organized Religion - in Canada, institutionalized, has been diminishing. We are entering the age of reason. And as we enter this, our Liberal acceptance of others, of those of different, often religious or dogmatic cultural beliefs from countries at war about those self-same beliefs, we open ourselves to possible extinction.
...Always, we doom ourselves, our acceptance of others is the end of us ...