http://defendingcontending.com/page/2/April 29, 2013 WorldNetDaily;
Matt Barber; Random Se******ns;
Modern-day liberals or progressives as they more discreetly prefer labor under an awkward misconception; namely, that there is anything remotely progressive about the fundamental canons of their blind, secular-humanist faith. In fact, todays liberalism is largely a sanitized retread of an antiquated mythology one that significantly predates the only truly progressive movement: biblical Christianity.
While visiting the Rivermont Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, Va., a few weeks back, I heard a troubling, albeit thought-provoking, sermon. Pastor John Mabray addressed the ancient Canaanite practice of Baal worship and, though he didnt reveal it by name, connected the dots to its present-day progeny: liberalism. Baal, the half-bull, half-man god of fertility, was the focal point of pagan idolatry in Semitic Israel until God revealed His monotheistic nature to Judaisms forebears.
In his sermon, Pastor Mabray illustrated that, although theyve now assumed a more contemporary flair, the fundamentals of Baal worship remain alive and well today. The principal pillars of Baalism were child sacrifice, sexual immorality (both heterosexual and homosexual) and pantheism (reverence for creation over the Creator).
Ritualistic Baal worship, in sum, looked a little like this: Adults would gather around the altar of Baal. Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity. Amid horrific screams and the stench of charred human flesh, congregants men and women alike would engage in bisexual orgies. The ritual of convenience was intended to produce economic prosperity by prompting Baal to bring rain for the fertility of mother earth.
The natural consequences of such behavior pregnancy and childbirth and the associated financial burdens of unplanned parenthood were easily offset. One could either choose to engage in homosexual conduct or with child sacrifice available on demand could simply take part in another fertility ceremony to terminate the unwanted child.
Modern liberalism deviates little from its ancient predecessor. While its macabre rituals have been sanitized with flowery and euphemistic terms of art, its core tenets and practices remain eerily similar. The worship of fertility has been replaced with worship of reproductive freedom or choice. Child sacrifice via burnt offering has been updated, ever so slightly, to become child sacrifice by way of a******n.
The ritualistic promotion, practice and celebration of both heterosexual and homosexual immorality and promiscuity have been carefully whitewashed yet wholeheartedly embraced by the cults of radical feminism, militant gay rights and comprehensive sex education. And, the pantheistic worship of mother earth has been substituted in name only for radical environmentalism.
But its not just self-styled progressives or secular humanists who have adopted the fundamental pillars of Baalism. In these postmodern times, weve also been graced, regrettably, by the advent of counter-biblical emergent Christianity or quasi-Christianity, as I prefer to call it.
This is merely liberalism all dolled up and gratuitously stamped Christian. Its a way for left-wing ideologues to have their religion cake and eat it too. Under the guise of social justice, its adherents often support or at least rationalize the same pro-homosexual, pro-a******n and radical environmental policies pushed by the modern-day Baal worshiper.
Though the Christian left represent what is arguably a negligible minority within larger Christianity, the liberal media have, nonetheless, embraced their cause and seized upon their popularity among elites as evidence that the so-called Christian right (read: biblical Christianity) is losing influence that Christianity is, somehow, catching up with the times.
Because emergent Christianity fails the authenticity test whenever subjected to even the most perfunctory biblical scrutiny, I suspect it will eventually go for the most part the way of the pet rock or the Macarena. But this does not absolve leaders within the evangelical community from a duty to call leaders of this counter-biblical revolution on their heresy. Its not a matter of right versus left; its a matter of right versus wrong of biblical versus non-biblical.
Nonetheless, the aforementioned pillars of postmodern Baalism a******n, sexual relativism and radical environmentalism will almost certainly make rapid headway over the next four to eight years, with or without help from the Christian left. The gods of liberalism have a new high priest in Barack Obama, and enjoy many devout followers in the Democratic-controlled Congress, liberal media and halls of academia.
Both Obamas social agenda and that of the 111th Congress are rife with unfettered pro-a******n, freedom-chilling, pro-homosexual and power-grabbing environmentalist objectives. The same kind of hope, action and change, I suppose, that was swallowed up by the Baalist Canaanites of old.
So, todays liberalism is really just a very old book with a shiny new cover. A philosophy rooted in ancient pagan traditions, of which there is naught to be proud.
Ecclesiastes 1:9: What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.