Donald R. McClarey at The American Catholic just posted two great video finds. The first is a "liberal" Christian video that has, I guess, been making the rounds. The second is a parody of it by the brilliant The Lutheran Satire, one of whose other videos we cited a few weeks ago.
You will choke on both of them. In a bad way on the first. In a good way on the second.
Let me declare my biases. People have called me a "hater". Okay, I'll bite. I hate "liberal" Christians. I despise them. Indeed, I strongly do not like them.
Why?
It's not because they interpret Christianity in a "liberal" manner. I may disagree with that--depending on how you define the term "liberal"--but it doesn't annoy me in any kind of existential way. You want to say (merely) that you're "gay and Christian". Okay, we can talk about it. I may think you're wrong about the Bible or Christian theology or, well, just how logic works, but I'm not going to say you're prima facie a bad man or woman or even that you necessarily have less dedication or faith than anyone else. Tell me about your faith. I will learn something.
That's not to say that your belief and practice (and mine) do not matter. They do, and they will have eternal consequences. But at base we're both fallible human beings. Like Adam. Like Peter. And a few others.
But most "liberal" Christians take it one step further. They denounce other Christians. They sneer at them and they judge them. And they do so primarily from the perspective that they alone are not judgmental. They alone are different. They alone are better.
It's the irony and hypocrisy that confounds.
Do you know any contemporary Catholics like that? Does it remind you of anyone?
Liberal Christians say that they are Christians. Fine. In that case . . .
Liberal Christians (most of them) are the most hubristic, hypocritical, pharisaical, nasty, vicious, dishonest Christians to have ever walked the face of the earth.
Which says a lot.
They would denounce their own brother as an Islamophobe if they thought it would earn them a point.
They have the tolerance of Nazi brownshirts.
Yeah, I have a chip on my shoulder. And I know you get the idea.
So, here are the videos:
Please pray for me.
And the people I hate.
