by Doug Giles
Can a Christian be a liberal? Short answer: no. There is no way a
Christian can buy into progressive/big government ideology and be
faithful to the bigger-than-Dallas teachings of Scripture and expect to
continue enjoying his hard-won religious liberties.
For the “Christian” to lean politically to the left means that he
must blow off huge chunks of the Bible and replace Scripture with the
make-believe notions of PC’s malleable “Christ.” Only after torturing
Scripture can the Christian then fit current liberalism into his
supposed relationship with God.
For the Christian who believes that unfeigned faith in Christ should
correspond with Jesus’ high view of Scripture, it is impossible to
believe in God and be an adherent to this schlock.
Liberalism has been hijacked by bizarre special-interest thugs who
defy the Word of God and believe that the Bible has no place in public
life (except maybe in a museum where people can look at it from time to
time).
The Christian skipping around the maypole wearing his rose-colored
glasses who has a bent to the liberal left needs to understand
something: If it were left up to the modern, secularized liberal
establishment, Christians would be more restricted than Bill when
Hillary’s in town. If the Christophobic thugs had it their way,
Christians would be relegated to a marginalized spiritual ghetto on the
sidelines of life.
For the naive Christian voter who thinks he can toss a ballot in the
progressive direction, please know that a vote toward the secular left
could leave you bereft of sacred liberties. Thanks to the aggressive and
ludicrous liberal lug nuts’ anti-Christian agenda, your vote for a
leftist is a vote for:
1. Christianity to be scrubbed from government and whatever turf the
government owns. Thanks to the liberals, the Ten Commandments have about
as much acceptance in our government and their properties as Rush
Limbaugh would at Sandra Fluke’s family reunion. The Judeo-Christian
principles that formed the rock-solid foundation of this great American
Experiment are now aggressively and consistently attacked by the
lascivious left.
If . . . if . . . the secularists continue to stay behind the wheel of
this American bus, you can kiss all semblance of Christianity good-bye
in this heretofore God-graced government. Saint, you might as well say
farewell to our government’s recognizing Christmas and adios to Good
Friday if you’re going to vote the liberal ticket. If the secularists
have it their way, Easter will be behind your keister, and you can kiss
the Cross good-night as an acceptable public symbol that represents your
faith and our nation’s recognition of Christ’s atoning work.
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.
3. 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.
4. Public attacks on churches and Christians and attempts to restrict
them in the private sector. Consider this, Christian pastor and
Christian lay person looking to vote for the ludicrous left: The secular
Mafioso’s intent is to make your ministerial life difficult, your
evangelistic work taxing and your voice minimized.
5. The continued media endorsement of the same putrid, hedonistic
stuff that sunk ancient civilizations. With the liberals in place,
expect more weird crap in movies and on television. Expect to see more
paintings of Christian symbols and saints smeared with elephant dung.
Expect Christianity to be bashed and vilified and Christians made out to
be buckled-shoed morons with three teeth and an IQ of 50. Expect the
culture to coarsen. Expect your kids to continue to be exposed to things
that only rock stars see backstage with groupies. A vote for a liberal
is a vote to see Christians continue to receive special ridicule and be
flogged more than a piƱata during a Cinco de Mayo festival.
Modern liberalism tosses out Scripture on several different levels.
How a true believer in the Christ defined by Scripture can buy into what
Jesus, the prophets and apostles said and also give credence to what
these secular goons say is beyond me. In addition to liberalism’s
obvious and odious pro-Holocaust-like abortion stance, its anti-biblical
view of marriage, its Scripture-slamming, aggressive secularism, and
its feckless view of our nation’s defense, liberalism completely clashes
with the Christian worldview. Progressivism’s aggressive desire to
eradicate Christians’ rights should cause Christians to be concerned.
The Democratic Party’s liberalism has degenerated over the last 40-50
years in regard to its view of Christianity and Christian rights. This
party, which formerly embraced and protected our nation’s great
Christian heritage and teachings no longer does so. Thus, today the
Christian is between a rock and a hard place: He can either be a
Christian or a liberal—but he cannot be both.