In order to be a progressive and a ‘professing Christian’ at the same time, one has to view scripture through a different lens.
Verses get cherry picked, God is less dangerous, evil and good get blended together, man is essentially good, and this world is more important than the next world.
“I’ve met a lot of Catholics AND Christians....”
Say what? Or am I somehow reading this wrong?
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They have not grown up yet.
There is a lot of truth in the phrase “If you’re a conservative when you’re 18, you have no heart; if you’re a liberal when you’re 30, you have no brains.”
For whatever reasons they have not been forced or allowed to go through the natural process of losing childlike naivete and hyper-idealism and having that tempered by reality. This is why they never understand why their ideas don’t work. They don’t think things through fully, they do not think about negative possibilities. Some leaders of liberal movements do know their ideas are bad but that’s why they push them - they have people underneath them that are ignorant, idealistic folks not in on the real agenda. Plausible deniability.
But in general, liberalism is people trapped in juvenile thinking, having been stunted in their growth mentally and logically that would normally occur to young adults as they start dealing with the rest of the world.
If you look how liberals react you will see they react like juvenile children do. They throw tantrums. They run away when they can’t get their way (WI democrat senators???). They cry foul after the other side uses a tactic they just used. Namecalling. Shouting. Getting violent with others. Trying to debate them, they don’t have logic to back up their generally hypocritical positions, so they cry, devolve into namecalling, try to change the focus of the argument, make up hysterical claims (war on women, trayvon, fluke), kick their feet, make threats.
The leftist agenda of utopianism is the desire to make men into gods. To put man in the role of creator.
Utopianism is the heart of the liberal political ideology, and it is a form of idolatry.
On the other hand, the heart of conservative political ideology is a desire to return to a Christianized culture.