Archival Series: Things held in Common by Islam and Liberalism
If you have not read the November, 2016 Shepherd’s Staff, What If You Are Wrong About Islam? please do that before trying to read the following. If you need a copy of the November issue, ask for one by email.
The use of the term “Islam” in this article is meant to include the majority of those people in that movement who are obligated to obey the letter of the law in the Quran on the penalty of death. The use of the term “liberalism” is meant to include all those who hold a mindset that is based on lies and error. That way of thinking pretends to be intellectual and factual, but in practice it invents answers and protects them with vicious attacks on anyone who disagrees.
One way to tell if a movement has no intellectual or spiritual power is to observe what they do with those who disagree with them. In Islam, if you do not agree with them, you die. In liberalism, if you disagree you are said to be anti-intellectual, ignorant, stupid, and lacking any credibility. Liberalism allows dissenters no place in society, government, education, or discussion in the public arena.
These two movements share methods. They operate and defend by use of hate, intimidation, threats, and violence. They assign negative qualities to those who don’t agree with them by using the very things they are guilty of. Islam identifies anyone who does not agree with them as infidels who are to be killed. It complains that it is being persecuted when the facts demonstrate that this movement is responsible for the most brutal acts of persecution worldwide. Liberalism does the same thing. Those who disagree with them are subjected to vulgar language and are called racists, xenophobes, homophobic, Islamophobic, and facists. Liberalism turns truth into lies and lies into truth.
AND THERE IS MUCH MORE
Both movements have a callous attitude toward human life. The murder, mayhem, beheading, burning, drowning, torture, and genocide by Islam is without debate. This destruction of human life is justified by simply changing the category of some humans to “infidels.” Liberalism has done the same thing with the murder of unborn children. The abortion holocaust stands as the worst destruction of humans in the history of mankind. They did this by simply changing the category of the unborn, saying that they really are not humans. This is extremely similar to the tragic page in American history when black people were made slaves by simply changing their category. In Islam, there is no safety in age or place in society. Babies, children, women, the elderly - all are irrelevant; kill them all with no mercy. One can only wonder where the wicked mentality of liberalism will go. Anyone who would cruelly dismember a baby will have no trouble destroying old folks and anyone who disagrees with them.
The duality of both movements is also found in the matter of morality. From day to day, it is hard anymore to tell what is moral. The rules are changed at will, normally to benefit the elite or, in Islam, the male gender. Sexual slavery, rape, genital mutilation, multiple wives, and the animalization of women stand as unquestionable evidence. Driven by a preoccupation of sex in this world and the next, morality is adjustable. Liberalism capitalizes on the same thing, driven by what they call “freedom” when in fact it makes people slaves, not free. The celebration of sodomy and the invention of same-sex marriage are only examples of the moral freefall. The creation of things that do not exist and that are lies includes the transgender movement. Suddenly perversion has become popular in this “anything goes” society that benefits some elite, but enslaves many. In both movements, any protest of this growing degradation is met with a violent response.
AND THERE IS STILL VERY MUCH MORE
Liberalism cannot tolerate the true record of history. It must be adjusted to fit their propensity to have all things their way, and this is why liberalism has worked to destroy the Constitution. In its original form, it opposes everything liberalism stands for; therefore, it has been rewritten by them, deliberately and systematically. A true and honest record of history has been changed in print and in the classroom because liberalism cannot abide the truth. The same is true of Islam. World history and that of this movement has been changed to alter the respectability of a movement that is much more than a religion.
Every day there is a new report of how Islam is invading education with its precepts and goals. In true form, it is demanding new “rights” in every area, but at the same time is denying the same freedoms to others. The issue of clothing is only one way to soften up the opposition. The demand for Sharia law is much more egregious. This new legal system stands in direct contradiction to the US Constitution. To use it is actually treason. Education, however, is the major victory for liberalism. It deliberately moved from one-room schools to community schools to regional schools to state schools to federal schools. With each step, liberalism moved to ownership and created its own factory to press the liberal mindset on the populous. The lie of “public education” allowed them to drain the finances of the people, leaving them with no power to stop the moral and mental train wreck. All one has to do is to watch the news every day to see the kind of degraded society it has produced. Pseudo-science has produced a plethora of cruel lies - the Big Bang, evolution, global warming, etc., - and all the mind-numbed robots simply repeat what they have been told to believe.
THE WORST IS YET TO COME
One would think that people who call themselves Christians would know enough about God and the Word of God not to be caught up in these lies. Liberalism, however, has badgered and controlled even Christian education so that it follows like a lap dog, letting the enemies of God set the false standard like the people of God did when they chose Saul as king because they wanted to be like the rest of the nations.
Almost everyone you know has been influenced by the liberal mindset so that they now think like liberals. We are all victims of the liberal success in education. I live in the world of theology. Not one day goes by that I don’t read or hear of people who handle the Bible like liberals do. Knowing my days are numbered, I press on to finish two books that deal with this problem. From theological articles to Facebook, I see the same thing. There is a mad rush to make the Bible say what people want it to say. The theological error of the month simply proves that our crowd has been taught to think like liberals. I know this is bold and pointed, but then these articles have one purpose - to make people think.
Shepherd's Staff was prepared by the lateC lay Nuttall, D. Min.
Shepherd's Staff was prepared by the lateC lay Nuttall, D. Min.
SHEPHERD'S STAFF – December, 2016
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