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Turning Christianity into a Hobby
By Justin Darr
August 04, 2005
If obstructionism by Senate Democrats of President Bush's political and judicial appointments has taught us anything about the nature of the goals of liberalism it is they detest Christianity, or any religious faith which has the audacity to hold opinions contrary to their own. Senator Charles Schumer may want to try to perform a song and dance around Article VI of the Constitution, banning "religious tests" in the confirmation process of official appointments, by replacing the words "religious beliefs" with "deeply held personal beliefs," but the results are the same. Liberals are discriminating against people of faith under the hypocritical guise of "tolerance" to ban them from public office and diminish their influence on society.
In Canada, liberals do not have to contend with that pesky 1st Amendment like their ideological brethren in the United States, so Canadian persecution of Christians is in a generally more advanced state than in America. However, as with socialized health care, same sex marriage, immigration, and international foreign policy, American liberals look to Canada as the template for how they should proceed in "improving" America.
This propensity for American liberals to mimic Canadians make the editorial aired on Canadian Nation Public Radio of July 19, 2005, all the more alarming. In a shocking moment of clarity, liberal retired professor Bob Ferguson of the Royal Military College stated what liberals see as the ultimate solution to their "influence of Christianity" problem in society, calling for the government regulation and control of religion in Canada.
With typical liberal insincerity, Professor Ferguson covers his the Terri Schiavo/pro-choice, if you do not like something kill it, reasoning by claiming that the systematic government oppression of Christianity, and Catholicism in particular, is actually protecting the Separation of Church and State. "I do it because I feel the Separation of Church and State is under threat. Religion is important in our lives, but it can become a danger to society when people claim that the unalterable will of God is the basis for their opinions and actions."
So, the problem is not necessarily what Christians believe, but that they take it far too seriously. Liberals, and their supporting "progressive churches" prefer look at matters of faith in terms of personal preference and convenience. Kind of like the Coke/Pepsi debate. The rationalization of "Sure, I'm a Baptist, but the Buddhist Temple is two blocks closer and with the price of gas and all." is how liberals want you feel about your religious faith.
But, Christians have proven to be resistant to abandoning the central issues of their lives quite that easily, so Professor Ferguson proposes to give them a push, ""I envisage a congress meeting to hammer out a code that would form the basis of legislation to regulate the practice of religion. Like the professional engineers' P.Eng designation, there would then be RRPs (or registered religious practitioners). To carry the analogy to its conclusion, no one could be a religious practitioner without this qualification." As with all liberal programs, these "qualification exams" would require far more than just understanding your faith, but also the government's sanction that the "RRP" reflects a "few obvious things" restricting religion. Little things like, "A key item would have to be a ban on claims of exclusivity. It should be unethical for any RRP to claim that theirs was the one true religion," "prohibition of ritual circumcisions," "the regulation of faith healers," and "protocols for missionary work," a
Liberals would no longer have to worry about Christians opposing their policies because those policies would be presented to them as religious edict from their Church ministries. Opposition to liberal social programs would become tantamount to a sin against God. Scripture would become secondary to legislation and right and wrong based on the lowest common denominator as determined by society's most dysfunctional members. And, people of faith would loose the most fundamental freedom of all, the right to choose for yourself what you believe.
In the end, liberals want Christianity to become your hobby not your faith. Faith is something that forms the core of your being and can only change with lengthy soul searching and prayer. A hobby is something you enjoy doing, but is not really important so you can give it up or set it aside easily out of convenience or necessity. The actions of liberals in both America and Canada show that this is how they view their own faiths. How else could they endorse the murder of the unborn and infirm? Somehow it is now much easier to understand the source of the left's moral bankruptcy.
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