Christian & Liberal?
I’ve never thought you could be both. Now I’ve found a Doug Giles column that agrees with me.
Thanks to the aggressive and ludicrous liberal lug nuts’ anti-Christian agenda, your vote for a liberal Christian is a vote for:
2. Secularism to be continually mainlined into our public school system. Thanks to rabid, vapid secularism, our public schools and universities would rather you be a Rocky Horror super freak than a Christian. If your beliefs run to the bizarre or the banal; or if you want to smoke the same philosophical crack that Caligula, Nero, Castro or Lenin freebased, they’ll accommodate you.
Our schools are totally open to anyone and to anything, unless, of course, you’re a Christian. And if that’s the case, then you’re likely to get more sympathy from a badger with minimal sleep than you will from liberal educators who are hard at work making your life hard. Let me repeat: A vote for the secular left is a vote for Christianity to continue to be officially vilified on campus and for Christians to be ostracized in campus life.
In short, being a Christian liberal is pulling a John Kerry. It’s like saying that you have deeply held religious beliefs that have no place in policymaking. How deeply held can a person’s Christian beliefs be if they don’t want those beliefs to govern their life? How How deeply held can a person’s Christian beliefs be if they don’t want those beliefs to govern our nation’s life? What good are the right beliefs if they don’t influence your decisions?
From an intellectual standpoint, that’s the equivalent of Hillary Clinton saying that she’s got strong personal beliefs on abortion but that she’d still nominate pro life justices to the Supreme Court. Would anyone believe her? Better yet, would her supporters still support her if they thought she was serious?
Thanks to the aggressive and ludicrous liberal lug nuts’ anti-Christian agenda, your vote for a liberal Christian is a vote for:
Public officials, employees and appointees to be pressured to hide their faith in the closet and suppress their public displays of belief in God lest they be grouped with Hitler, Osama, or Mussolini and then fired. Not only will the liberals aggressively work to prohibit the State from green lighting and recognizing Christianity as a legitimate and positive force in our land, they will also attempt to stifle Christians from influencing the path of government.
How often have Christians been characterized as intolerant, mean-spirited and hateful? How often have liberal politicians refered to Christians as “the far right wing” of the GOP? I remember Vic Fazio refering to Christian conservatives as the lunatic fringe of the GOP in the runup to the 94 landslide. I remember Al Gore refer to Christians as extremists and “kooks” and worse.
That’s the real Democratic Party. Christians that are Democrats are silent about their beliefs. They’ve said it’s because their personal beliefs don’t belong in the public arena. I suspect it’s because they don’t want to face the ridicule of the lunatic secularists in their party. Like being a Hollywood conservative.
Here’s a snippet from a previous article:
More than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth landed Friday in San Francisco for a two-day rally at AT&T Park against “the virtue terrorism” of popular culture, and they were greeted by an official city condemnation and a clutch of protesters who said their event amounted to a “fascist mega-pep rally.”
The name of that post is titled “The ‘City of Tolerance’ Hates Christian “Fascists‒. San Francisco is about as intolerant of Christians as the Taliban’s Afghanistan, with a few scattered pockets providing the exception. Manhattan’s upper East Side isn’t much more tolerant.
You explain how Christians will feel welcome in cities like that. “Be a Christian”, someone will patronizingly tell you, “Just check those beliefs at the door.” Explain how Christians feel welcome when Chuck Schumer talks about a Supreme Court’s or appellate court’s nominees’ “deeply held personal beliefs.” Or when people from MoveOn.org say that Republicans want to start a “theocracy just like Iran’s.”
Are those the words that say “Welcome, Christian brothers and sisters. We value your opinions”? Or that say “We’re so thankful for your thoughtfulness and caring for others, especially in Katrina’s aftermath”?
I say to the Christians who aren’t welcome in the Democratic Party “Come on over. We value your opinions. Join your voices with our’s. Let’s sit down and plot a solid, reasonable course for this great nation.”
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April 17th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
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April 17th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
A great man once said one cannot serve two masters. Let’s see, who was that? Oh yeah, it was that rebel himself, Jesus the Christ.
I believe he also said something along the line of don’t hide your light under a bushel.
With those two admonitions, it seems as though he said it all in reference to those who would vote for virtually ANY mainstream donkey politician.
What he didn’t say, though, was go out and behead anyone who doesn’t take up the faith in Him. And rape little boys and girls while doing so. And lie until you can kill your “enemy”. Or to take over the government so you can impose theocratically your beliefs on everyone else.
The “theocracy” cry is nothing more than a red herring to distract the real argument from where it rightfully belongs: right in the laps of the theocrats who worship the gods of diversity and secularism.
April 18th, 2006 at 10:42 am
The only question this article raises is whether you know less about Christianity or about liberalism.
April 18th, 2006 at 11:00 am
I know less about liberalism but that’s only because I know tons about Christianity. That and I don’t like the intellectually vapidity of the Party of Emotions.
April 18th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Wikipedia has a nice summary of what is calls “liberal Christianity,” and the many groups of Christians who say that their Christianity informs their liberal political views, e.g., the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity
Before you reject it, consider approaching it with an open heart, as Christians are supposed to do.
April 18th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
I welcome all Christians regardless of party affiliation. I’m merely pointing out that the vast majority of the current left hates Christians.
Your mentioning MLK, Jr. illustrates my point. In the 60’s and 70’s, the Democratic Party was the party of family values, caring about strong families, etc. They lost their way since then.
Patrick Moynihan worried about families when he released his prophetic report on the disintegration of black families.
MLK, Jr. and John Lewis, Georgia’s CD-5 representative are examples of what the Democratic Party used to be.
As I cited in my article, Democratic leaders are hurling insulting epithets at Christians today. They didn’t then.
The extremist groups now think of Christians as fascists and tell them they aren’t welcome to live in their world. That doesn’t sound hospitable to me.
And all the history of the Democratic Party won’t change that fact.
April 18th, 2006 at 4:00 pm
How exactly did the Democratic Party lose their way?
April 18th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Helping the poor, taking care of the earth, anti-God stuff like that, disgusting. Liberals are all going to Hell.
God said, “Capital gains tax cuts and war are the path to salvation.”
April 18th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
The finer points of Christianity, things like “Thou shalt not murder”, “Thou shalt not lie”, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s ass, nor his wife…”, “Do unto others…”, “Love thy neighbor”, “…give him your shirt also…”: Those are the points donkeys/libs/moonbats have lost their way on.
Adultery, abortion, theft (usually by the state to redistribute to “the poor”), “It depends what the definition of what the word ‘Is’ is”, hate GW, all these things I can easily identify as swords in the leftist arsenal.
Are there Christians who commit sins? I hope so, ’cause if they didn’t we’d have a problem with too many Christs, but like the saying goes, I’m not perfect, just forgiven.
For those who are so afraid of a theocracy, check out the ultimate goal of liberalism. It fits the definition of theocracy to a tee.