I understand the impulse to mock something like this. After all, it is pretty transparently stupid to ascribe human political ideology to God. However, many liberals wonder why there is such a reluctance to suggest that liberals can be good Christians too. Off the top of my head, I can think of several key points (note: I'm only referring to liberals who claim to be Christians here):
- Liberals tend to believe that human nature is essentially good; the Bible explicitly teaches the exact opposite.
- Liberals tend to view the world in Marxist terms of oppressed-oppressor, when the Bible teaches us that we are all guilty of oppressing others, and have all been oppressed. In the eyes of God, we are all petty little tyrants (as the left views oppression) when left to our own nature.
- Liberals tend to be unable to say definitively that one way is right above all others when it comes to religion (they certainly don't have this problem with politics and telling us how to live). Liberal Christians just don't have a good record of upholding the teachings of their own religion as the truth, causing many to question whether or not they really believe it or not.
- Liberals tend to downplay the biblical mandates to pursue real justice out of a fear of being seen as "harsh" or "judgmental." Often this leads to inhumane scenarios like certain classes o sex offenders, who should be mercifully executed or imprisoned for life, end up getting turned into social lepers, fitted with GPS bracelets and forced to live under bridges.
- Liberals tend to believe that the Bible was written by man, without much guidance, or sometimes, any at all, from God. Many of them simply believe it to be a man-made work of philosophy and pseudo-history.
I think I may continue this with "why God is not a conservative" and "why God is not a libertarian." I would throw in "why God is not a moderate," but I think that one would be pretty self-explanatory considering the fact that "moderate" is just a way of saying "doesn't really have any fixed political values and principles."
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