What drives secular liberals/progressives? They all agree that Biblical Christian morality is not acceptable to them. That morality expects people to struggle (with God’s help) against their own sinful nature, and face God’s judgment when they fail. That is an intensely repulsive prospect for them so they deny God (and sadly, God’s forgiveness).

And, they deny their own sinful nature. But the sinful nature is still there, so they still sin. Where a “sin” is any  human choice whose consequence causes sorrow (to God or humans). So “sinners” are SORROW MAKERS. But they are loathe to admit that, so they deny their responsibility for the sorrows they have caused. They avoid interpersonal moral accountability, and skew their world view to avoid personal moral accusation by saying truth is relevant, or by claiming situations are too complex or ambiguous to hold them accountable.

Compensating for guilt, they posture as “the good people” and seek impersonal moral values upon which to claim moral superiority (thus Political Correctness and socialism). Seeing themselves as good, they expect that like-minded people are also “good”.  If everyone around is “good” there is no need for weapons among good folks.  And… ultimately… they see no need for the military.

Moreover, denying the sinfulness of human nature denies that evil can emit from deep within humans. The alternative is that evil has to come from outside human nature. So, if someone is acting badly, it must be accounted to some source of infuriating injustice from outside of that person’s nature. Maybe we could remove that injustice and the bad behavior would cease. Maybe we could just talk to the miscreant and work things out peacefully. Sometimes that is true, but sometimes it is not, and there the deniers of sinful human nature fail to appropriately respond to the evil they perceive. For example, underestimating the threat of terrorism.

Wisdom’s FOG