Great article. From the press, you would think that Christianity in general is moving to the left or falling apart. Far from it. A noisy and permissive but still very small percentage is trying to water down the beliefs that have stood up for centuries upon centuries — and continues to expand today. This article rightly puts it in perspective, though. Liberal Christianity is an oxymoron. You can’t be socially liberal and still believe in the Bible and call yourself a Christian.

So, why is it that with a rapidly declining membership, and a TOTAL membership that is less than the total membership of more traditional Christian denominations, the MSM continues to call these the “mainstream Churches?” Why not just call them what they are: religious liberals?

Right on cue, I saw this article today:

Religion Taking A Left Turn?

They do a disservice by giving this sparse and impotent “movement” more weight than it deserves.

“You can’t be socially liberal and still believe in the Bible and call yourself a Christian. ” phrases like “don’t beat your slave until they lose an eye or a tooth” seems pretty socially progressive to me. Yep. The good book is full of handy useful information by which we should live our lives.

“You can’t be socially liberal and still believe in the Bible and call yourself a Christian”

Well…no. At least not for the most part, but the devil is in the detals. I have to agree with Amsterdamsky here, and I’m about as conservative as they come. Abortion and gay “marriage” are were I draw the line. You can be for affirmative action, be an envirocrazy, anti-gun, all that, but when people say they’re Christian and in favor of abortion-on-demand or gay “marriage” I have to wonder.

That said, as a one-time Presbyterian who still follows the PCUSA I’ll say that while there are good local churches, much of the national leadership are a bunch of whacked-out leftists.