…to nail traditional liberal Christianity dead on. This quote is from atheist Brian Fleming’s reflections on a debate he had with “a mix of conservative Christians, liberal Christians and freethinkers.” He didn’t like any of the Christian positions, but singled out the liberals for special comment:

Liberal Christianity, despite being non-hateful and on many issues even ethical, is hopelessly incoherent, however. Liberal Christianity says a perfect God wrote a perfect book—but he made mistakes. Or, alternately, liberal Christianity says the book is an extremely flawed and even disgusting work written by men—but special attention should still be paid to it. Liberal Christianity says religion shouldn’t stand in the way of science—but a dead man did really rise from the dead. Probably. Or, at least, it’s not unreasonable to believe that he did (or that he turned water into wine and walked on water). Liberal Christianity says the love of Jesus is the only way to Heaven—but if some people don’t believe that, it’s fine to let their deluded souls go off to Hell without even trying to stop them. Or maybe Heaven and Hell don’t exist at all—but it’s still very, very important to praise this figure called “God.” For some reason.

HT to Ochuk

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