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December 10, 2023

Bible-based, orthodox, historical Christianity is so countercultural today.  There is less and less common ground between progressives and Christians.

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Christmas and Easter are the great holidays of Christianity, celebrating the birth of our Savior and his resurrection from the dead, respectively.  You can venture into Hobby Lobby or dine at Chick-fil-A and be greeted enthusiastically with cries of “merry Christmas!”  But progressives are aghast at the birth of an exalted child in the ignominious circumstances of an animal shed with a bed made in a feeding trough.  Consistently, in most companies, employees may bleat out the bland secular salutation “happy holidays” instead.

Progressives believe in science, as long as it is consistent with their political science.  Progressives are at war with nature, human nature, and nature’s God (see here, here).  Christians believe in the supernatural and the natural, the latter comprising the goodness, beauty, and truth of God’s artistic creation, science, rationality, and critical thinking.

Christians believe the Bible when it teaches that God created the world and everything in it.  Progressives, on the other hand, believing all men to be basically good, think education and re-education can perfect man with politically correct thinking.  Turning a blind eye to evil, progressives have empathy for criminal perpetrators in social justice. But Martin Luther warned about the unholy trinity of the devil, the world, and our own sin nature.  Only God can change a man’s heart to good (see here, here). With this understanding, Christians support criminal justice and have empathy for victims of crime.

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In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky captured the zeitgeist, observing, “If God is dead, then all things are permissible.”  Believing this, progressives know that life is meaningless.  This imparts urgency in the here and now with attendant striving to create Utopian society.  On the other hand, Christians know that the meaning of life is in the relationship with Jesus of Nazareth.  There is this life and a next life.  The declaration is that “His Truth endures to all generations.”

Christians cherish the fruit of the Spirit, which “is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”  However, progressives futilely desire the fruit while shunning the Spirit.

Our culture today embraces the caricature of Christians as milquetoasts.  Christians are expected to never push back, never defend doctrines, and be unquestionably inclusive.  As the progressive philosopher Rodney King implored, “Why can’t we all just get along?”  But Jesus stated, “Do you think that I came here to give peace to the earth?  No, I tell you, but rather division!”  Claiming to be the gatekeeper, Jesus taught, “I am the door.  If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will come in and go out and find pasture.”  Jesus denied there are many paths to God, claiming, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Continuing their two-hundred-year infatuation with racism (see here, here), progressives endorse racist, hateful, divisive Critical Race Theory, which posits that racism is entrenched, oppression of minorities precludes escape, and there is no atonement for white privilege but rather only unending oblation of apologies.  Against this, the apostle Paul taught, “He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.”  Embracing Christian teaching, which opposes CRT tenets, Martin Luther King, Jr., shared, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

Progressives recently buried the Defense of Marriage Act to raise up the abominable Respect for Marriage Act.  This is one of the latest progressive actions celebrating LGBT behaviors.  Thinking children to be little animals, there is progressive inclination to groom children for sexual exploitation.

In opposition, science, statistics, and the Bible indicate that LGBT behaviors are unnatural, abnormal, and immoral, respectively.  Proscriptions against immoral sexual behaviors are extant because God has said, “I do not change.”  Having created man and woman, God ordained the sanctity of marriage for the natural, normal, and moral behaviors of a man and a woman (see here, here).  Knowing that children are made in the image of God, Christians want to protect childhood innocence as long as possible.