By Dennis Prager, The Stream - I was a young man at the time — with the unsettling realization that to be a conservative did not necessarily mean being religious… I had naively assumed that it did… I thought so for three reasons: First, all the religious — God-based, Bible-based, religiously active — people I knew or studied were conservative. I grew up an Orthodox Jew in the yeshiva world, home to some liberals, many conservatives and no leftists….