Don’t be a Progressive Christian, be an Atheist instead

For years, I’ve called “Progressive” Christians trojan horse atheists. I mean that in full. For theirs is a movement full of cowards. In accepting a dogma that they likely adopted without rational consideration or identifying an emotional state as a spiritual one, they’ve forfeited themselves a consistent intellect. To question the ethics of a religion (or in this case, its traditional instantiation), is a completely legitimate line of assault on any philosophy, and the Bible is no exception. So too it is fair game to question the metaphysical nature of “sin” in a religion as well as the prescribed “atonement” for it. Unfortunately, for them, the “progressive” Christian seems to ignore the possibility that the morality of the Bible may very well suggest that it was written by man, comprised of legends of man, for man, and is not the instructional wisdom passed down from an unchanging, all-knowing, and eternal entity. That its use is not rooted in the pursuit of objective truth but is instead for those who require a spiritual aspect to their social reality.

The Bible, as far as I’m concerned, does not affirm the liberal social mores of today. The best the progressivists could get, with any serious study of the document, is scriptural silence on these issues. Silence is not an affirmation. The progressives should ask themselves two questions whenever confronted with an ethical passage that makes them uneasy. How likely is it really that their recent reinterpretation is true given the long intellectual study of Christian and (by retroactive addition) Jewish ethics? If you find that your conscience is incompatible with scripture, why should you sacrifice said conscience on the altar of doctrinal supremacy?

It was Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, who called Man “a rational animal” for you can take everything from a man except his conscience; his reason. You can only cause him to fumble it, and if you could possibly remove a man’s reason, you’ve made him non-human. Worship your reason, it must be the lens by which you examine everything!