By way of introduction, I will state that I am now a full-fledged liberal. It has taken me a number of years to finally admit and come to the conclusion that my worldviews are "liberal." Some have even labeled me as a "progressive." In fact, I have even been called a "liberal progressive Nazi communist!" Can't figure that out? Yeah, me neither. The reason why it took so long, is simply because I didn't really know what a "liberal" or a "conservative" really was until a few years ago, when I started getting more into the political world.

In terms of recent American politics, I am quite liberal. In terms of European (or most of the rest of the world) politics, I am actually a bit conservative. However, I have been becoming more liberal in my political, social, and economic world view even in relation to the rest of the world in the past few months. I find it increasingly more difficult to engage with American conservatives in any sort of constructive and meaningful way. The logical fallacies tend to pile up. Especially IRT conservatives of the Tea Party variety. (I think they're absolutely crazy.) The one logical fallacy that irks me the most, is the argumentum ad hominem. If a Tea Party conservative cannot rebut my arguments, they automatically resort to the ad hom, hoping to provoke me into some sort of childish flame war just so they don't have to admit they were wrong about a given subject.

Over the course of the past two years, I have been reading a lot of both conservative and liberal opinion pieces. People from Michelle Malkin as one example of a fire-breathing conservative, to one I found more recently; Justin Rosario. AKA: "Proud to be Filthy Liberal Scum" on the opposing end of the spectrum.

In the meantime, my engagements on Facebook have been nothing but me responding to a Tea-Party conservative post. I would comment with a counter-argument using a link to back up my claims, just to have the Tea-Party clown state that the Huffington Post or an educational institution are "liberally-biased." Then they ask why I do not use a source that is not biased. Usually this clown would post a link to a website such as The Blaze, right after lecturing me to not post a source that is biased.

Eventually, there was one fellow, whom I have known since high school, that has caught my attention on Facebook recently. He is a Christian conservative, but is one of the very few (the only one, really) that was able to engage my arguments by presenting his own arguments without resorting to any logical fallacies. (Except, of course, the argument from authority. I do indulge him his Good Book references. I can accept that a person believes in something I do not, though I was raised as a Catholic myself.) I am not in the business to tell someone else what to believe or not believe.

Now, where is all of this leading to, you may ask yourself? Well, that's a good question. You see, I have been thinking of creating my own personal blog for a while now, mostly for my own musings. But the gentleman of whom I spoke of in the previous paragraph, you will know him as "Jesus' Servant," as I have said, caught my attention. Not because I agree with his worldview, but precisely because I disagree with his worldview. You see, he can actually engage in civil discourse without reverting to childish antics I see from so many others. In short: He has gained my respect despite often being wrong in many of his assertions. ( ;) )

Given the information above, I have had a brilliant idea. Or perhaps a disastrous one....let's focus on the positives shall we? That idea was: Why not begin a blog that presents the opinions of two differing worldviews on some of the important issues facing us today? Opinions written in a constructive, matter-of-fact kind of way. Issues such as abortion, taxes, regulation of industry,gay marriage, etc.

I think this could be a great idea. I hope this will become a great blog. Jesus' Servant and I shall try and put out at least one article a piece each week, and see about picking up our pace as time passes and we grow in experience as writers.

*Edits: Grammar and spelling issues. Clarifications.