The Tragedy of the Religious Left: Worshipping the Goddess of Tolerance

Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^ | 7/18/2006 | Chuck Colson

[Mr. Silverback]

It can not be argued by anyone that the party that supports abortion has a religious foundation.

Yes, but you have to argue (as Ann Coulter does) that liberalism itself is a religion. Abortion is one of its holiest sacraments.

[Mr. Silverback]

Liberals have made "tolerance" a buzz word to attack conservatives. It seems to be working, even in this forum.

No, that's crap. It's not that the libs have advanced a bad idea called "tolerance" and made conservatives buy into it, it's that liberals have taken their bad ideas and slapped the name for a good idea (tolerance) on them.

To be quite frank, your posts in theis thread are awfully crotchety. Chill out.

[Gritty]

[Mr. Silverback]

By that definition it means "emotional."

I agree. Far too many Americans only practice spirituality on an emotional level, and it is, as you said, what makes them feel good.

[Mr. Silverback]

Nice graphic.

[mollynme]

You're not real big on the whole conversion, atonement, redemption thing, are you?

Skylab is an admitted atheist. IOW, he/she is just here to get some jabs in at Christians.

[bcsco]

"The liberals aren't even a part of the Church."

When I used the phrase "The liberal Christian Church is today's Laodecia" I was referring to the liberal Christian Church; not liberals in general. There are liberal Christians and Conservative Christians. I was referring to the former group.

As Revelations 2 states they are neither hot nor cold but lukewarm. They profess Christianity but do not consider the Bible to be the inerrant Word of God. That to me is lukewarm.

[Mr. Silverback]

Skylab is an admitted atheist. IOW, he/she is just here to get some jabs in at Christians.

Even a fool who believes there is no God should be smart enough to see that a criminal can reform, and that three decades of public service outweighs a few years of skullduggery.

[PetroniusMaximus]

"not liberals in general"

Yeah, I know. I was refering to liberal "Christians" also. I would not consider them to be part of the Church because most of them don't even believe the basic facts of Christianity - including "christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures..."

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Chuck Colson, the man who ordered the Watergate break-in and destroyed a President."

True. But he was tried, convicted, imprisoned, saw the error of his ways, confessed, repented, and embarked on a new life, now living no longer for himself, but for the Lord.

I admire Colson --- very much --- as I admire anyone who has cast his sins down and trampled them underfoot. I hope we would all have the grace to do the same.

[nina0113]

Skylab is an admitted atheist. IOW, he/she is just here to get some jabs in at Christians.

Aha.

[phillyfanatic]

As Doug Giles wrote, one can be a Liberal but not a Christian. One could be a Christian but never a Liberal. So true.

[Skylab]

Skylab is an admitted atheist. IOW, he/she is just here to get some jabs in at Christians.

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

[gentlestrength]

"Of course liberalism is a religion. It has its own cosmology, its own miracles, its own beliefs in the supernatural, its own churches, its own high priests, its own saints, its own total worldview, and its own explanation of the existence of the universe. In other words, liberalism contains all the attributes of what is generally known as 'religion.'" Ann Coulter, in Godless.

[chesley]

I don't know what the word "spiritual" means to them.

But I can tell you what it's come to mean to me. Someone under the influence of Spirits other than the Almighty. that's what.

[chesley]

I think their motto is, "We can tolerate anything but intolerance"

[chesley]

You are correct, it does mean emotional, but in a 'love, peace, and pass that grass' kind of way.

[gentlestrength]

Campolo was one of the few that were claiming to be the spiritual counselors to Clinton after BC's getting caught sexually.

If you don't preach sin, right and wrong, preach until the heart is filled with fear and terror, it won't see it's need. THEN you offer the Savior. Clinton never repented, IMHO, partially because people like Campolo were his counselors.

[ArGee]

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

I don't know who you were quoting, but that sentence makes no sense.

It might be correctly rendered, "We all disbelieve in most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

Is that what you are trying to say?

Shalom.

[newguy357]

When I used the phrase "The liberal Christian Church is today's Laodecia" I was referring to the liberal Christian Church; not liberals in general. There are liberal Christians and Conservative Christians. I was referring to the former group

The problem with your idea is that many of these "liberal Christians" do not even acknowledge the divinity of Christ (and many or most do not acknowledge that Jesus is the only way to salvation, directly contradicting many verses of scripture) and are therefore, by most definitions, not Christian at all. The Laodecians believed in the Christ for their salvation, which is more than most "liberal Christians" (i.e., non-Christian liberals who go to church for reasons usually involving family tradition or societal pressure).