Alan Brown #fundie facebook.com

(Just one of many comments from this guy comparing progressive Christians to Nazi's; see full thread in link).

Vulgur Robert Hood Pace your rather excessive scepticism, I do think as a rule of thumb if you see something it doesn't exist ??

I have no doubt that "progressive christians" convince themselves and eachother that they "model their politics on the teachings of Jesus". The question is whether in fact this is what they really do. And two immediate reasons to think this is not what they do.

Firstly, Jesus did not announce a specific political programme; rather he announced the Kingdom of God. It's been a long time since Albert Schweitzer showed the utter futility of attempts to present Jesus as the founder of a political movement. I know you're bald, but you're not so old that you don't belong in the nineteenth century.

Secondly, the political views of "progressive christians" are manifestly derivative of the views of secular progressive ideology. Whether it's abortion, Obamacare, gun control or attitudes to the LGBT, "progressive Christians" simply reinterpret Christianity to fit the parameters of secular progressivism, as represented by mainstream Hollywood media, rather than try to pin your beliefs on Jesus, your position would be more plausible if you claimed to derive your religion from Morgan Freeman.

And it is with regard to this second aspect of your "progressive Christianity" possesses a decisive affinity to the German Christians of the 1930's. Each of you committed in principality to a political ideology, and each of you reinterprates the Christian religion to fit that optical ideology. Of course there are differences between with respect to your policies (the Nazi's happily killed Jews, today's progressives happily kill babies, etc); but these attitudes don't affect the fact that the fundamental attitude is one of reinterpreting Christianity to fit the parameters of a political ideology. THAT is where your position is isomorphic to that of the German Christians. And THAT is the point at which, for all your vulgarity and prevarication, you have no counterargument.

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