tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post115059485879718879..comments2023-09-22T06:56:46.508-05:00Comments on Adoro te Devote: Progressives and God's Allegience to themAdorohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02853244433854822731noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1151549982585030552006-06-28T21:59:00.000-05:002006-06-28T21:59:00.000-05:00I've always thought the problem with Liberalism is...I've always thought the problem with Liberalism is that they place their good policies in the same basket with the bad and get upset when people reject the entire package because of the bad parts. Let me give you an example:<BR/><BR/>In the continuing self-destruction of the Episcopalian Church, a female "priest" called dogmatic conservatives a "splinter group" and proceded to rant about how intolerant they were being. She says, and may actually believe, that those people aligned against her in the current fight are anti-woman and anti-gay. <BR/><BR/>Unless I'm mistaken, her worldview includes two things: <BR/><BR/>1) charity to and (platonic) relationships with homosexuals is part of the christian calling that we all share<BR/><BR/>2) in order to properly embrace someone and encourage them to be accepting of charity, we need to give them equal access to positions of leadership and restate doctrines that are offensive to their sensibilities<BR/><BR/>The first one is a statement which all sides can agree on, while the second is liberal tripe designed to water down the traditions of a centuries old guardian of morality. She then berates her opponents as if they were in fact arguing for the mass execution of homosexuals and chaining women to bedposts so they could fulfill their vocations as childbearers. <BR/><BR/>Anyone versed in the actual beliefs of the right knows that this is an orcish caricature of the beliefs they hold. This raises the obvious question: Does she really have so little time in between her emotion filled sermons and her angsty self-loathing to realize that she has mistaken views about her opposition, or is she stuck on using a rhetorical style that too many people take for actual argumentation? <BR/><BR/>My goal is to highlight what liberals do, rather than to determine their motives. She represents one of two bad choices.<BR/><BR/>In the past generation, conservatives (religious, definitely; secular, for the most part) have striven to keep their policies in line with the views of the previous few hundred years. Liberals, on the other hand follow their own devices, creating their own philosophies rather than building on what has come before them. The ones that aren't altruistic merely pander to their own selfish designs. The one that are have the hubris to believe that they can reach closer to God than those conservatives who stand on the shoulders of giants in the faith. <BR/><BR/>The first rule in fait-politics should be that before you claim God is on your side, you better make sure you are on God's side first.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15170815.post-1150907681389479352006-06-21T11:34:00.000-05:002006-06-21T11:34:00.000-05:00Those who claim God to be on their side are often ...Those who claim God to be on their side are often the same ones attempting to refashion in their own image. We have a word for that—idolatry.Deacon Bill Burnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484509700642430451noreply@blogger.com