While I was trolling around the blogosphere today, I came across an interesting article on Townhall.com. In the article, author Kevin McCullough describes where the “Christian Left” has gone wrong. I’ve included an excerpt that I think explains the entire “Christian Left” mindset:
All three men shun the thought of biblically based Christians from standing firm against the creeping peril of evil in our culture. “Be more tolerant,” they would advise. “Reach out with love and understanding, not judgment and division.”
The ‘Christian Left’ is rife with such belief.
Unity, forgiveness, mercy, and constant appeasement are to be more highly favored than righteousness, holiness, faithfulness, and obedience.
The so-called “Christian Left” obviously do not have a handle on the very fabric of Christianity or everything Christ stood for while on earth. There is a HUGE difference between tolerance of personal diversity and allowing relativism to be the standard for human morality in general.
The “Christian Left” supposedly teaches to be tolerant of others and love each other. However, even non-believers can love and be non-judgemental. I wonder if those on the left have read what Jesus actually said about division in Matthew 10:34 - 36:
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law, and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.
John the Baptist further explains that Jesus will divide those who have truly followed him and believed in him from those who have rejected him (Matthew 3:12):
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Jesus further gave some advice to his disciples in Matthew 7:13:
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
The principle of tolerance and allowing unmoral behaviors happen unquestioned are completely different things and should be treated as such. Jesus Christ loves all of us, but I really doubt he doesn’t care about moral relativism. Afterall, he has promised to judge each and every one of us after death. I wish the “Christian Left” could understand this. For them however, even the principle of right and wrong is, unfortunately, irrelevent.