You Know You're a Liberal* When...
A friend sent me an email with the above title a few days ago. Here are the ones I found most interesting:
* I try not to use the word "liberal" because I find it too vague. Also, I reject the way it is used by the Rush Limbaughs and Ann Coulters of the world. In fact, there are many positive things associated with historic Liberalism. I also try to avoid the word "conservative" as used by the aforementioned pundits, who are really not conservative in my estimation. I prefer the word "progressive" to describe the kind of philosophy I oppose, because it carries with it the connotations of the positivism, exemplified by Marx, that sees humanity as "evolving" toward some future utopian paradise on earth.
** I part with many "conservatives" in being opposed to the death penalty in almost all cases. The death penalty, however, can never be equated with abortion in terms of heinousness.
A friend sent me an email with the above title a few days ago. Here are the ones I found most interesting:
- You believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of funding.
You are against capital punishment**, but for abortion on demand, in short you support protecting the guilty and killing the innocent.
You believe that the same public school teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
You believe that gender roles are artificial but being gay is natural.
You believe there was no art before federal funding.
You believe that conservatives are racists, but that black people couldn't make it without your help.
You believe the only reason socialism hasn't worked properly anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
You believe that posting the "Ten Commandments" in schools will hurt the children, but putting "Heather Has Two Mommies" or "Ask Alice" (on the internet) won't.
You called Vietnam Veterans "baby killers" but think that allowing a woman to suck her baby into a sink is a constitutionally protected right.
You think trees have feelings, animals can conceptualize and the fetus is a blob of protoplasm.
You consider the Catholic bishops noble and idealistic when they oppose capital punishment and welfare cuts but dangerous fanatics trying to legislate their theology when they defend the right to life.
* I try not to use the word "liberal" because I find it too vague. Also, I reject the way it is used by the Rush Limbaughs and Ann Coulters of the world. In fact, there are many positive things associated with historic Liberalism. I also try to avoid the word "conservative" as used by the aforementioned pundits, who are really not conservative in my estimation. I prefer the word "progressive" to describe the kind of philosophy I oppose, because it carries with it the connotations of the positivism, exemplified by Marx, that sees humanity as "evolving" toward some future utopian paradise on earth.
** I part with many "conservatives" in being opposed to the death penalty in almost all cases. The death penalty, however, can never be equated with abortion in terms of heinousness.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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