There’s a certain irony in watching secular progressives — those who sneer at faith — suddenly become self-appointed theologians when it suits their agenda. They love to cherry-pick scripture, wagging their fingers at Christians for not being “Christian enough,” while simultaneously rejecting every foundational truth of the faith.
This is the faith of the non-faithful, where secularists hold believers to a moral standard that they themselves do not accept.
Secular progressives are, of course, free to be non-believers. But that doesn’t magically make them paragons of reason. As G.K. Chesterton famously observed, "It’s not that atheists believe in nothing; they then become capable of believing in anything." And what do today’s secular progressives believe in? Inevitably, cultural Marxism, the false promise of a utopia where human nature is rewritten, history is erased, and personal responsibility is conveniently replaced with collective guilt. Their messianic faith in the state-as-savior would be amusing if it weren’t so destructive.
Meanwhile, Christians, acknowledging their flaws, don't have enough faith to be atheists. Why? Because believing that all human suffering, love, morality and meaning are the random product of cosmic accidents requires an irrational level of blind faith. And yet, it is these same secularists — disciples of nihilism — who dare lecture Christians on morality.
A recent reader’s comment condemning a local Fountain Hills politician for being an imperfect Christian is intellectual hypocrisy at its most shameless. Christianity isn’t about moral perfection — it’s about grace. But grace is a concept utterly foreign to this perverse secular cult, where only ideological purity grants absolution.
If only these secularists held their own dogma to the same impossible standard they demand of Christians. Perhaps then, they’d recognize that their “non-belief” is just another religion — one that worships the state and demonizes dissent.
We’ll pray for you.
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