"Go back and quote me. Surely you can do that?" Surely you jest?

No, now that there is no archive of comments, and since unlike Alceste I don't "take names", i.e. keep my own record of who said what when, I rely on my memory of our last conversation and it would take a lot of time to track down that comment.

We will get nowhere discussing conservatism without defining our terms, which is why I am asking for your definition. We seem to have very different ones. 

I  see a continuum in every religion between ultra-liberal and ultra-orthodox or fundamentalists, and a struggle between the two to define the religion, and so where the middle is can vary depending on who is winning. Right now the fundamentalists are winning in Israel and many majority Muslim countries.

Conservatives are on the right-hand side of that continuum, but are less extreme than the ultra-Orthodox or fundamentalists.

to be continued...