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Today I attended my first protest rally and it got me thinking. Conservatives—Patriots—have once again become the revolutionaries challenging the ruling class. What were we protesting? In the words of Rush Limbaugh, “The porkulus plan.”
So, I thought, if this is what Conservatives do, what about the other side of the equation? I decided it’s inconceivable!
Liberalism.
Liberalism protests for peace (think about that for even just a minute). Who does it protest against? Those willing to sacrifice everything to defeat tyranny.
Liberalism is "anti-establishment". What does it seek? A governmental nanny state.
Liberalism avows separation of church and state. Where does it turn for aid? To a state that has usurped the gifts of the church.
Liberalism demands tolerance (again, Selah (Hebrew word for, “Pause. And calmly think of that)). When is tolerance applied? Only when people with whom liberalism agrees are speaking.
Liberalism celebrates diversity. What does diversity create? A world where everyone is different making unity impossible.
Peace borrowed from a willful ignorance of an enemy of liberty's actions is false peace and will soon enough demand payment in full with interest. Pretending that a tyrant is not so is like pretending a tiger is a house cat.
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." —Gerald R. Ford. The irony of the anti-establishment crowd seeking to create the largest apparatus of establishment in American history is rich...and very, very impoverished indeed.
Taxes are for infrastructure. For things like roads, schools, parks, law enforcement, and a ready defense. Taxes are not for things like medical care, retirement, after school programs, and food. Those gifts are the church's to give precisely because they are impotent in transforming the life of the recipient without the power of receiving such gifts in the name of Jesus Christ. The government has no moral authority to demand accountability, has no hope of better things (save the assurance that one may stay in his or her condition of need indefinitely), and has no community to offer guidance, correction, and love.
Tolerance defined is essentially agreeing to disagree. But, as revisionist
re-definers are wont to do, the word has been re-tooled to mean, "I will tolerate (agree with) all who do not directly challenge (disagree with) me." All challengers are subject to slander, abuse, and final judgment. By the way, "Judge not lest ye be judged"? Seriously? Right back atchya. And, by the way, love is not a synonym for tolerance. Tolerance perceives error and says "ah well, live and let live." Love sees error and says, "But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Real love is ready, willing, and able to do the difficult things. Love never turns a bind eye in favor of comfort, but even so, love “is patient and kind...does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
“Love never fails.” Read that description of love in full in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, then read John 3:16-17. Don’t accept mere tolerance, receive grace.
Diversity is akin to tolerance. Recognizing differences is one thing. Recognizing differences and not having prejudice against someone who is different is still another. But focusing solely on a difference and demanding primary allegiance to that difference—a difference that necessarily makes one group exclusive to another—is something else. And that brand of diversity is at the heart of the disunity and us/them culture we find ourselves in. Only in Christ can all of mankind be united. We may be many things individually, but collectively we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Christ is the only solution to the universal need for redemption and grace. Christ alone has the ability to unify us as He is reconciling all believers to Himself.
Liberalism. Supposedly the bastion of total freedom, love, and acceptance. But, in the words of The Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya, "I do no think that word mean what you think it mean." It’s inconceivable...if you think about it.
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