The Christian Left Has Become Unhinged

American Thinker ^ | December 20, 2016 | Janice Shaw Crouse

[Kaslin]

Michelle Obama says she can “feel the difference” since the election. She claims that with her husband leaving the White House the nation is entering a “period of hopelessness.” With the election of Donald Trump, the Left in general is reacting in unhinged ways, with one news outlet claiming, “The Left has lost its collective mind.”

Ironically, the Left is attacking Trump for the actions that they indulged in to the extreme over the past 8 years. They are doing a lot of “projection” –– a term psychologists use to describe the practice of attributing to others your own flaws.

For the past 8 years, Americans have seen unprecedented attacks on religious liberty and other basic freedoms through politically correctness and growing intolerance of anything conservative. The Left, according to the Daily Mail, has called people racist and stoked racial unrest, including riots in major cities. Now, the Left is ramping up those arguments saying Trump and Conservatives will engage in exactly those actions – racism and intolerance for anyone who doesn’t agree politically or religiously. They’ve added homophobia and created an atmosphere of fear for the vulnerable.

The left, who used every possible means at their disposal to curtail religious liberty (believers must bake cakes or take pictures at LGBT “weddings,” etc.), project onto Conservatives the tactics that they employed when they were in power. They appear to have no comprehension of the fear many Americans felt under President Obama’s threats to “fundamentally transform America.” They were very happy to lump Evangelical Christians into a “basket of deplorables.” In their eyes, it was perfectly legitimate to portray mainstream Evangelicals as “alt-right” to be feared and hated because of their “extremism” and punished for living out their faith in everyday life.

[PGalt]

Anti-truth, anti-freedom, anti-individual, anti-life collectivists? Go figure.

[jimfree]

Calling them the Christian Left, and I have for years, attaches all of the derision they intend when referring to the Christian Right. It is consistent with my accusation that they use the Beatitudes as weapons rather than teaching. It sets up the opportunity to call the leadership unpastoral. It is a proper and proportional attack on their credibility.

[WashingtonFire]

It is not possible to be both a Christian and supporter of the modern day Democratic Party .

The Dummycrats of 2016 are explicitly anti- Christian and pro-Marxist

[ReagansShinyHair]

I agree, I know a LOT of people who consider themselves Christian Left. Most of what I see of them, they’re just a lot more vocal about “caring” for others. They do just as little to actually help anyone else. They are much more bitter, much unhappier people overall, and always blaming others for the unhappiness they see around them. They have fallen hard for the “social justice” crap and they live in a bubble where they can’t imagine that anyone else could be a Christian and not want “social justice.” I believe they are sincere in their beliefs. They’re just wrong.

Still, I’m tired of anyone saying, “You’re not a REAL Christian unless (...you follow my rules and my definition of Chrisianity...).”

[Bushmaster7]

Actually there are many who ‘profess’ Christian faith who fall into the category of the Christian left. For decades now the Christian church has been infiltrated by progressive liberals replacing the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ with the false gospel of ‘social justice’. Like at our Colleges and Universities, it has resulted in generations of pastors and teachers who deny the clear teaching of scripture and substitute this false narrative of salvation. I know many former solid Christians I went to college with that entered the ministry and subsequently went apostate after professing a sincere Christian faith during their early years. So yes I can see these kind of people helping to lead a hysterical crusade against Trump and the evangelical Christians who help put him into office over the next four years. It is a sad commentary on the state of not only our nation but the Christian church as well, both Roman Catholic and Protestant. We will need to defend our beliefs in both Scripture AND Constitution, and that physically if called to do so; just like our Fore Fathers did in the American Revolution.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas also!

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Belief in Christ always means submitting yourself to His ways, His message, and who He is.

Leftists want nothing to do with none of these - they cannot be followers of Him.

But yes, I agree they are the most hypocritical people I’ve met as well.

[wastoute]

I do believe that for the most part the “ Christian left” thinks that there can be found a “new perspective” that brings greater insight to old if not even ancient truth. Just as in”there is nothing new under the Sun” they fail to recognize that their “new perspective” is not focused on Truth but for the most part on heresies that are as old as Christianity itself. Like the historian who said those who don’t know history are doomed these faux Christians fail to realize, in many cases, that their fresh way of looking at things is as old as the gnostic’s secret teachings or the ravenous wolves in the flock.

[Mr. Douglas]

They are doing a lot of “projection” –– a term psychologists use to describe the practice of attributing to others your own flaws.

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Pretty funny. It’s what I’ve been saying since Obama was elected in 2008. When they say we didn’t vote for him because we are racist, they were projecting. They were OVERTLY voting for him because they are racist.

And as I argued with them more and more on the internet I learned that the liberal argument MO falls into four categories:
1. Projection
2. Ad-hominem attack
3. Deflection
4. Argumentum ad-populum (e.g. scientific consensus)

[maddogtiger]

A million DITTOS!

[DungeonMaster]

My mother and father in law are Catholic and hard leftist. She went to high school with Harry Reid who remembered her name years later. He just wants to keep the peace.

Being Catholic doesn't make them Christian. I know a Catholic couple who are union thug liberals. They go to mass once in a while but their whole life is about worldly things and they love the Democrat party. They believe every lie about Republicans. Almost every Christian I know is a Republican. So I am really skeptical about "Christians" who are so far from the truth. Well, except really low information low IQ Christians.

[Prov1322]

Not looking to start a FReeper War here nor denigrate anyone but here is one way of identifying a Believer...

2 Corinthians 5:17 Amplified Bible

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is, grafted in, joined to Him by faith in Him as Savior], he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit]; the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].

So if this new creature in Christ (another translation says...a totally new species of being, never seen before) is still promoting infanticide, homosexuality as a valid lifestyle, stealing from others (leftist grab and give...), etc, etc...are they that new creature?

I believe "church-building-attending leftists" would be more accurate.

[cgbg]

They also use arguments of authority—if x person believes something you should too.

The Christian Left often replaces x person with God.

That ends the debate!

[servantboy777]

>>the nation is entering a “period of hopelessness.<<

Good...I sincerely hope the liberals agonize for eight Loooong years as we have on the right with her bozo freaking husband at the helm.

GOOD RIDDENCE Michelle/Hussein

[LS]

Agree. I fought in particular for years with a colleague who insisted he was a “Christian socialist” and I told him using the Bible there was no such thing.

[dware]

The Christian anti-American Left Has Become Unhinged

Fixed!

[sport]

There is no such thing as a Christian left. If one is Christian, one is not Left. If one is Left, one is not Christian.

[xzins]

Where Brittany was relatively benign, Nadia Bolz-Weber in “The Strong Heart of God’s People” was more alarmist. According to her, the election of Trump brought on (in capital letters, no less) APOCALYPTIC times. According to Bolz-Weber, in these “challenging times” she chooses loftily to be “swept up into the radical reconciliation and mercy of a crucified and risen God” rather than in “the results of an election.” Using the language of devout preachers, but, sadly, placing their faith in so-called “social justice,” the other columnists equate social justice efforts with doing “the work of the Gospel here in earth.

The issue with the Christian left, and I speak as a pastor for one more week in a mainline, liberal denomination, is NOT the issues: abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, etc.

The issue is the BIBLE and it's authority. Period.

Everything stems from there. I know from experience, and I know because renewal movements in all of the mainlines, including my own, have come to realize that the Word of God, the "Thus Saith the Lord", is what separates us.

That's true of ANY liberal, and not just Christian liberals.

[Mr. Douglas]

Yes. argumentum ad verecundiam (argument from authority)

I get it a lot when I argue with Catholics about some teachings about Christianity. They will often say that because certain men of old (but after the bible) believed a thing that, therefore, it is the truth.

I will quote people like C. S. Lewis on issues where he and I agree, but not in an argumentum ad verecundiam way. Rather, I think he just makes the point better. No need to re-invent the wheel, and an inferior one at that...

[AppyPappy]

“No such thing as the Christian left.”

Being a Christian doesn’t keep you from being wrong.