The Liberal Way

                                                                                                 Vol. XVIII, No. 4, April 2005

“There is another aspect of liberalism that should continue to interest: its insistence on calling itself Christian. While denying the inspiration of the Bible, the deity of Christ, the virgin birth, the true nature of faith, and most of the other cardinal Christian doctrines, the liberals still want conservative Christians to think of them as "one of us." As a consequence, it is almost a rule of life that the liberals do not leave the visible church.

“True even in our time, in the remaining contests (most of the early ones have been lost) between liberals and conservatives, the liberals threaten to depart and go it alone. They tell of plans to open new churches, start new seminaries, and the like. But alas, that does not happen. There is a severe strain of dishonesty about this reluctance to leave, this maintaining a pretense of Christianity by those who deny the faith. Great clarity could be wrought by the liberals if they called their religion by another name than Christianity and set up shop on their own. However, in that clarity is divine and confusion is satanic, we cannot expect this course of action by the liberals. Rather, liberalism will only exist by living like a parasite off the healthy body of the Christian church. It will draw its strength from the concessions yet to be made by conservatives. It will labor subversively until it gains a majority in an organization. Then, possessing that majority, it will move to more overt control and another church, another college, another denomination will be lost forever to the enemies of the cross of Christ.”

[Dave Breese in Seven Men Who Rule the World from the Grave, Moody Press, 1990, pp 103-4]