Liberal “Christians”

Pope Pius IX – The Greatest Enemy of Liberal Catholicism

Over a year ago, I was doing some pro-life work back in my hometown. I engaged a woman in conversation about pro-life issues while holding a picture of an aborted fetus. She claimed that she was a practicing Catholic and a mother of four. She then said that she was pro-abortion and said that the Church needed to change. When I heard this I responded in a way that I shouldn’t have. I should have focused on the humanity of the unborn child and universal human rights but I decided to get into a religious debate. Though that wasn’t the time to do it, I will discuss this topic here.

I quoted the verse from St. Paul from Hebrews where he says: “Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today; and the same for ever.” She told me again that the Church needed to modernize. At one point she told me that the government recognizes two members of the same sex as a marriage and that the Church needs to do this as well.  Very disturbing.

I have never understood liberal religion. Never. If you believe that the Church is backwards, outdated, homophobic or sexist, why would you want to be a part of it? Regardless of this, they never think to ask themselves: Why do I continue to hold membership in this organization that I disagree with to no end?

This is a question that every liberal religious person needs to ask. I recently had some interaction with an Orthodox Jewish girl who was angry because Orthodoxy doesn’t allow female rabbis like Conservative and Reform Judaism. I asked her why she didn’t just leave her faith if she thought it was backward and sexist. She then said it was her home and she wanted to change it. The inconsistency this young lady holds is truly sad. Obviously I don’t endorse the religion of Judaism but I just want to point out that this problem goes beyond Christianity. One can find the same thing in Islam and other religions as well.

Where does this poison come from? It comes from Western civilization and its poisonous mindset. We’ve had it too good for too long and we begin to think that these foundational beliefs should change. The illusion of Freedom of Speech is one of the lies that allows this poison to work. Because of Freedom of Speech, every opinion is “equal” in a certain sense. Lies have just as much right as the truth. With truth and error having equal rights, it gives fertile ground for the seeds of relativism to grow.

With relativism, there is no absolute truth. That is why self-professing Catholics can say that they want to change Church teaching on certain issues such as homosexuality and women “priests”. There is no truth so we might as well try to please other people and be nice. That is the mindset of the majority of Westerners today including the woman I engaged in conversation.

In 2014, Canadian media star Michael Coren came out and said that he is no longer Catholic and had become Anglican. He explained that the reason for his decision was disagreement with the Church on social issues such as homosexuality, abortion, and contraception. Many of my Catholic friends were mad at him. I told them that I was happy that he left the Church instead of trying to undermine its teachings and “reform” it from within. He did himself and the Catholic Church both a favour by his joining Anglicanism.

I believe that the woman who I dialogued with should follow Coren’s example. That is, to leave the Church instead of trying to inject it with her liberalism and modernism.