The Problem With Us Evangelicals Is We’re Just Too Liberal
Written
by David Fitch
on November 30, 2016
If there’s anything the election of Donald Trump has taught me
it is this: We evangelicals have gone liberal and it’s taking us down a wrong
path.
Let me explain.
The
Word “Liberal”
Current
American Politics
“Liberal” is a word that can mean many things. In everyday use,
the word refers to the opposite of “conservative.” If Republicans are
conservative, then Democrats must be liberal. To be conservative socially is to
support traditional values and personal responsibility. To be liberal socially
is to advocate for personal freedom, self-expression and personal flourishing
on all social moral issues. Evangelicals tend to be conservatives in these
ways.
Classical
Liberalism
The more classical use of the word however, in the political
tradition of John Locke, J.S. Mill, John Rawls, describes a brand of
individualist politics. The goal of this kind of “liberal” is to order a
society around the freedom of each to pursue his or her “life, liberty and
happiness.” Achieving this goal, in essence, is what it means to “make America
great again.”
In the crassest of terms, this version of political liberalism
seeks a society that liberates each individual to do whatever he or she wants
as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody else.
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