LIBERAL RELIGIONISTS PAVE WAY FOR FUNDAMENTALISTS
CRITICISMS
LIBERALS CLAIM TO BE OPEN-MINDED AND TOLERANT BUT THEY DISMISS A STRICT FAITHFUL RELIGION AS MAN-MADE
THEIR SOLUTION TO MAN-MADE RELIGION IS TO FORM ONE THEMSELVES THAT DOES NOT PRETEND TO CARE MUCH ABOUT WHAT A GOD IS CLAIMED TO HAVE SAID - EVEN IF HE SAID IT!
THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO POLITICS - PARTICULARLY THE LEFT - IS DISTURBING AND INAPPROPRIATE
THEIR GOD IS THEMSELVES AND THAT PROVES JUST AS TOXIC AS HAVING A GOD LIKE THAT OF JESUS
THEY ARE REALLY ABOUT CULTURE
THEY ARE PRONE TO SCHISM AS IN CAMPS WITHOUT FORMING NEW RELIGIONS AND PRONE TO FORMING NEW TOXIC SECTS
ANY GOOD THEY DO DOES NOT SEEM TO LAST AS PEOPLE LOSE INTEREST IN RELIGION THAT ACTS AND LOOKS TOO HUMAN AND THEN OBSCURANTIST AND CONTROLLING RELIGIONS TAKE THEM IN
THEY LIE THAT AS LONG AS YOU DON'T TAKE EVIL TEXTS AND REVELATIONS FROM "GOD" LITERALLY IT IS OKAY, BUT WE ARE IN FACT CONSTITUTED TO BE INFLUENCED BY THE LITERAL - DON'T WE KNOW THE MOVIE IS NOT REAL AND WE FEEL IT IS WHEN WE WATCH IT? IT HAS A REAL BUT SUBTLE EFFECT.
IT IS COMPLIMENTING AND ENCOURAGING THE FUNDAMENTALISTS WHEN THEY SEE THAT YOU WON'T ABANDON THEIR EVIL HOLY BOOK.
DO LIBERALS EVEN CARE AT ALL?
NO.
THEY LEARN THESE TRUTHS FROM EXPERIENCE JUST A FEW DAYS INTO THE JOB.
Liberal religionists are not the nice people they seem to be. They are chronological snobs. They think that because we know better than people thousands of years ago that we can be sceptical of some of their scriptures tales and even doubt the morals and doctrines of an ancient religion. Liberals all think they have the right to interpret ancient religions and scriptures through modern eyes! That is dishonest and insulting. And the idea "we have moved on from the superstitions and errors of the past" is nonsense. Yesterday's errors always come back tomorrow in a new outfit.
We regard religions that say God want you to kill or do other kinds of harm to others as evil. We call such religions extremist. We think of religions that don’t advocate such activities as moderate or liberal. But even moderate or liberal religion is evil. There are several reasons for saying this.
#The liberal cares more about feeling happy through being spiritual (whatever
that means) than about sin or anything else and has a God who is soft on sin
too. That could be dangerous.
#The liberal likes to blame man for many of the rules in
religion that purportedly came from God - but if religion is that man-made how
can the liberal expect it to be peaceful? Man is not all good and his religions
will not be all good either. The liberal enables lies and hypocrisy.
#If you are a hypocrite then get labelled a liberal and
nobody will notice and they will support you. Some religious terrorists may be
hypocrites too.
#Terrorists and sectarians are recruited from religious
liberal families too.
#Liberals still vote religious fundamentalists into power
and enable their laws. Liberals enable the odd scenario in the USA where parents
can neglect a sick child which dies and avoid prison as long as they say they
tried to help the child with prayer. Not all those parents are mad
fundamentalist fanatics - they are often seen as moderate but for their attitude
that calling the doctor is a sin. Liberals make these laws that give special
treatment to these people.
#Liberals hate each other and some fundamentalists just
as much as fundamentalists can hate each other.
#Liberal Christianity distributes the Bible despite its Jesus and its God endorsing violence in it. Despite its saying it does not believe it all, it is still honouring a violent book. The right approach is to throw away any book that advocates violence and that may influence people badly - no reluctance and no buts.
Liberal religions talk about peace is hypocrisy.
#The liberal admits that it is only his or her opinion
that this part of the scripture is bad or wrong. That is not a strong protest
against the errors and lies and evil laws of God in the Bible.
# All liberals tend to keep their liberalism to
themselves a lot. An Anglican bishop who thinks Jesus sinned will not crow about
it. Thus they are not as unsupportive of fundamentalism as they boast.
#Liberals enable the plague of moral and religious
relativism which is bad and sometimes worse than other forms of fundamentalism.
The relativist just cares about having an opinion and does not care if it is
fact or not.
#Liberal religion says we must be very libertarian
because nothing is black and white and is extremely complicated. Liberal
religion encourages religious devotion despite the fact that you worry that this
devotion involves supporting something that is in some way harmful or
untruthful. We can be sure that ISIS devotees rationalise the acts of violence
they carry out by saying that it is okay to have reservations but to go ahead
and act because it is complicated anyway. Conservative religion in fairness is
fonder of "Okay you don't have all the answers but commit anyway" than
liberalism.
#Liberal religion denies that any religion is either true
or false - this enables fundamentalist religion.
#Liberal religion tends to lie that anything that does
bad is not really acting as a religion. This in fact implies that all religions
are infallible! Infallibility claims pave the fundamentalist's way.
#All religion is partly fundamentalist at least.
#All religion paves the way for worse fundamentalism.
#Christianity is intrinsically fundamentalist.
#The God concept is inseparable from fundamentalism. It
is always fundamentalist to believe in God or to say he exists. If God exists he
deserves to be put first. The only way we can be sure we are doing that is by
doing good at great sacrifice and personal suffering for all eternity.
Liberal Christians are fundamentalists as much as conservative fundamentalists
are. The only difference is in what they choose to be fundamentalist about. What
is called moderate or liberal religion is fundamentalist in some matters. It is
not the alternative to fundamentalism that it pretends to be.
Religion that is mere opinion but which makes demanding claims would be a form
of bigotry. You cannot tell people to form the opinion that gay people can be
killed. An opinion is something one should be free to agree with or disagree
with. You cannot tell anybody to agree with your opinion. You cannot advocate
serious damage in the service of an opinion.
Liberal religion is so full of uncertainty and singing from the same hymn sheet
as society that it can only make people want to be fundamentalists.
Religious liberalism is not the great defender of truth and liberty and
tolerance it pretends to be.
Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong is a religious cherry-picker who pretends all religions at core are good. Armstrong is trying to manipulate fundamentalists into toning it down but she is in fact a fundamentalist herself. She goes as far as to say Christianity and Islam etc are about seeking a sense of transcendence and of being strong enough to face evil and get through it and that is what they mean by God. When they talk about God they do not mean a being that exists or may not exist but are talking about their search. The Catholic Church under St Thomas influence did and probably largely still does understand God as a true or false issue. What business has she defining what religion is doing or telling it she knows what it teaches even when it disagrees with her? Then she sets about calling all who contradict her fundamentalists or fundamentalist sympathisers.
EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON IS THE BACKBONE
"Everything happens for a reason" is the
backbone of religions that pose as therapies such as progressive
Christianity. Sorry "Christianity". It is literalism as
in fundamentalist literalism. What is the point of condemning
somebody for taking a harmful or illiberal religious text seriously
or literally when they take this nonsense literally and seriously?
It is worse than glorifying any text. It is glorifying the terrible
things that happen to others while you are probably in your
comfortable house polishing the communion silver. It has been
noticed that religious and political literalism lead to violence
easily and quickly in comparison to other causes such as poverty or
social disadvantage. Nobody blows themselves up as a political
or religious martyr without thinking there is a reason for it.
Don't argue, "Not all take it that far." It is not the point.
Asking that everybody be given a gun does not excuse your part in
any harm that is done. Your argument is a further insult.
Finally
Liberal religion is dishonest, confused, stupid, over emotional and like a
kingdom that is divided against itself, it will not stand. It is only an
advertisement for orthodoxy or extremism. Members depart from religions that go
liberal and end up swelling fundamentalist ranks. And it is extremist the way
liberals lie about what the religion teaches to get it to fit some prevailing
ethos such as Nazism or LGBT ideology or whatever.
If religion is not ethics then liberals are actually renouncing religion in the name of religion for making out that all that matters is love or something! It does not respect those who want more than just love but who want religion or who see religion and love as two sides of the coin.
Liberal religion rejects the infallibility of
fundamentalism while acting like it itself is infallible. Anybody can read
a bad scripture or doctrinal text with loads of lines that raise questions about
its ethics and tell themselves it only says good things and that somehow the bad
bits don't mean what they say. But even that person has to admit unless they are
insane, “Nothing is perfect so I cannot be sure that my nice interpretations are
really right. Maybe some of them are not what the author intended at all.”
But that is exactly what the liberal will not admit. They are
self-appointed psychic oracles. The liberal has no moral right to criticise the
infallibilism of her or his fundamentalist rivals. Indeed the liberal is
only a different kind of fundamentalist.
Apologia, Catholic Answers to Today’s Questions, Fr Marcus Holden and Fr Andrew
Pinsent, CTS, London, 2010
