I 'review' the 'articles' and 'commentary' on the religious right websites (my interest, as a law student, is church and state issues). Occasionally, there is something there that I have to save - it makes me laugh so much. This is up there, along with the 'deliberate childnessness' piece by Mohler of the Southern Baptist Convention (which has been mentioned on the site, and which I will link if there is a request). But here is the other one:
By the way, I believe that Agape Press has some association with the Traditional Values Coalition, or am I wrong? Anyway, the link is ...
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/23a2004gst.asp"So I ask what I think is a good question: Why do so many liberals fear Christianity? I think it's because they are afraid of moral authority.
In the "progressive" world of Darwinism, evolution, absence of moral absolutes, and no relationship with a personal God, we become our own gods. If we do not believe in moral absolutes, we cannot be judged or restricted in our behavior and are free to do what we will -- "as long as we don't hurt anybody." (Although, then, who judges whether we hurt someone by our behavior?)
The Judeo-Christian belief system teaches that there is good and evil in the world, and that we have to choose each day which to follow. It teaches that even if no one is watching, an omniscient God is, and therefore is continually watching and, yes, judging our actions. The Judeo-Christian belief system teaches the concept of rewarding good and punishing evil.
I am convinced that the hard left cannot deal with moral absolutes because they are afraid such a system of belief would overly restrict their behavior. Liberals are so afraid of judgment that many of them are afraid to enforce the death penalty on even the most heinous serial killer. They are afraid of the subject of life after death involving heaven and hell because that too involves Divine judgment."
There are so many places to go with this. I'll start ... a) I'm not afraid of any God, any Goddess, any moral absolute, or that recognizing some truth will get in the way of either my life or my curent beliefs, ... or whatever.
I thought about it, and I guess I am a moral relativist, and proud of it.
I'm certainly not afraid of judgment. I don't believe in either a punishing god, nor do I believe that their brand of religious extremism has anything to do with either progressive Christianity or the 'Judeo-Christian belief system.' They are getting kind of cocky, aren't they?
I'm a religious scientist. That means I believe that religion and science are compatible. I believe that each one of us is equally divine, and that the Great Spirit is an energy within us that we can access and utilize to achieve our goals. I believe that God/Goddess/One-Energy is non-judgmental, and certainly does not seek to punish. I have a personal relationship with God, and yet, I am not a Fundie who believes that the concept of evolution (the study of a certain kind of change) should be struck from the Earth.
Thanks for 'listening.' EOR.