Posted by
Phillyfanatic(KGK) on Monday, September 17, 2007 4:42:44 PM
There is a great article on townhall.com by Frank Pastore on so-called Christian liberalism. The fact is that liberalism has much to say on socialism, pacifism, Govt. control, but not much reality on Biblical or Jesus' statements on salvation, grace, sin, forgiveness, the Incarnation and how one treats fellow humans. Oh, yes, there are liberal policies and trends about poverty, health care like Clinton's agenda today in Iowa, the poor et al. Still, one realizes if one is honest that liberal Christians speak little of the Sovereignty of the Lord Jesus as the only saviour and creator and arbiter of humanity's eternal life based on faith and motivations and on Jesus' blood sacrifice alone. They speak alot of how ugly conservatives, Christians on the Right are and how the Right's morality is too much based on sins of the flesh. And then they make the charge that conservative Christians do little for social justice. Actually, that is a lie. Conservative Christians give more to missions, more to charity, more to the poor, more to foreign national problems then do liberals. The leftist Christian, if that is a real term, allows for the Govt. to initiate policies by mandatory agendas and laws. They call for pacifism in foreign policy. One is hard put to see how those policies are mandated by Jesus and one cannot just pick and choose on what is sin to a Holy God. Pacifism will not defeat Islamofascism. Socialism will not bring people out of poverty or give them health care if history is any record of success. The point is that democracies, with free enterprise capitalism, almost always bring people even in poverty better care and rights and opportunities than any state sponsored socialist-fascist-communist government. Real morality is not explained by systems which allow sin to exist just to get along as long as the policy is, 'all roads lead to God' and no one should judge anyone so let's give them everything even if all people , especially the middle class and the rich are taxed above 50-70 % of their legitimate income. That is more than immoral socialism. It is dictatorship!!