As usual, Sillie Lizzie, you are RIGHT ON the mark!
Keep up the excellent work.
Lizzie,
Thanks for your comments on my blog.
You are right on with this post. Thank you for taking the time to put this blog together. It was very interesting reading about your life experiences.
Up here in Oregon, we have a large population that experiments with the new age movement and the occult.
Superb write! Where have you been hiding. You really did get to the heart of the matter except for one thing. Why? What drives them? How did they get that way? Is it Satan working within them? I can understand that one person likes a white car and another likes red, as I can understand one person prefers baseball and another football. What I can't understand is the liberal mindset that you describe here. Does a large part of our country prefer dishonesty, illogical thoughts, bad rather than good, etc. Surely a strong moral compass isn't reserved for just us Christians. The divide between bad and good has always been there. But it has progressed to reality vs fantasy, logic vs no logic. It is like abortion for example. Are they different babies? I planned this one therefore I love him/her. The next time I made a mistake therefore I don't love him/her? Where is the logic? Isn't that the same baby? Are we defining the miracle of birth to be a priviledge based on desire of the mother and father? Are you kidding me? Is that their best argument? Anyway, thanks for the thoughful blog, not sure why you haven't had many more comments.
Matt
Hi Matt,
Thanks for your comment. Actually, I did comment on the "why's", but have expounded them in so many other posts that I didn't address it comprehensively in this one.
I believe there are two reasons for the liberal mindset.
SIN. Fallen sinful man, apart from God, elevates himself to godhoood one way or another, for example, atheist, deist, pagan, cults, and some even claim to BE "christians". But it is humanism in a myriad of forms.
Regardless of what face humanism wears, man asserts his own autonomy to the uttermost without regard of concern for the reality that God exists and is sovereign over His creation, thereby bringing God's wrath against himself. Liberals will do whatever it takes to deny, divert, avoid, confront or justify their rebellion and control over their own circumstances.
This rebellion manifests itself in myriad ways in the arena of political ideology - it depends on which aspect of sinfulness each person desires to express. Some seek self righteous superiority in religious humanism; others seek unbridled sexual lusts or greed in libertinism/anarchy; others seek power or are driven by envy and theft thru totalitarian systems.. you get the picture. But the root core issue is SIN. It is what plagues us all and turns right into wrong, and good into evil.
The second aspect has to do with why people are hardened in those attitudes and behaviors. Once the gospel has gone forth into a culture, saturated it, and people reject it... the scripture says that "those who reject the love of the truth, God sends strong delusion that they will believe a lie". God hardens those who hardens themselves, thereby filling up the measure of His judgment and wrath. Remember Pharoah? Moses observes alternatively that God hardened him, and also that he hardened himself. And the judgments escalated until God glorified Himself in the eyes of everyone, freed His own people, AND brought ruin on Pharoah and Egypt for their wickedness.
I think we're there. The polarization we're seeing, the extremes of paranoia and hostility on the part of liberals of all stripes, and their joining together against any type of "non-liberal", these are all symptoms of the hardening and judgment. In the Christian camp, we're seeing massive apostasy from biblical truth toward greater worldliness. God is separating the sheep from the goats, and for us, this is a good thing.
Those are my thoughts anyway. Would love to hear more of yours! Stop by and comment any time!
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