Is it possible to be a liberal and Christian?
Share your thoughts, comment below. Why is your answer yes/no?
No.
Reason is, because the political/cultural idea of 'liberalism' began with the French Revolution which produced the Reign of Terror. The very idealists that pushed it wound up sending many innocent people to the guillotine.
The watchwords of the French Revolution were "Liberty, equality and fraternity".
As a result of the radical liberalism of the French Revolution, in Britain a counter to it began with the 'conservative' movement. That is where the idea of the Left and the Right in politics began.
But there's really a much darker history behind the liberalism of the French Revolution. It was one of the first movements by the secret societies in attempt overthrow the French Monarchy and the Church. It was one of the earliest examples of the socialist movement known as 'collectivism'. It was especially promoted by so-called free-thinkers, like Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Masonic Lodges of Freemasonry.
John Robison (1798), a British naturalist, and a British Mason, wrote a work called
Proofs Of A Conspiracy. In it he documented discovered secret papers of Adam Weishaupt's Illuminati order discovered by police in Bavaria. The documents revealed Weishaupt's takeover of the lodges of Freemasonry on Continental Europe (not British lodges). Weishaupt's Illuminati order then added many degrees onto the 3 degrees of original Masonry. He attracted all sorts of charlatans, black magicians, alchemists, those who practiced the occult arts, etc. And per his own personal letters admitted his main strategy was to overthrow the governments, the monarchy, and the Churches of Europe. Weishaupt was an orthodox Jew, originally a professor of law at Ingolstadt University in Austria. Bavarian police discovered documents of the order on one of its dead agents, and the Bavarian Illuminati order became know to the rulers in Europe, and was banned. But Weishaupt had said that if his order were ever discovered, it would go ten times deeper into secrecy.
It was that movement that started the so-called era called "Enlightenment" and the French Revolution. It took hold of some of the founders of the United States, like Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, who leaned towards liberal policies since having been rubbing elbows in France with those of the Enlightenment. Those like George Washington, who was a conservative, was more allied with those like the British Masons in Britain. This is why American history has the works of The Federalist Papers and The Anti-Federalist Papers, with opposing views between 2 sides. Thus our United States two political party system idea.
Weishaupt's Illuminati documents that were discovered promote a collectivist system that is like an outline of the later Communist movement. One could easily think Weishaupt's order is where the first Communist theories and doctrines originated. His plans for getting control of positions in politics, finance, media, publishing, education, military, etc., is exactly like what the Communists have proposed against the free nations.
If you've gotten to this point, and haven't stopped reading this, then know that God's Word covers this topic, but in a general sense. It is about the crept in unawares of Jude 4, the "tares" in Christ's parable of the tares of the field per Matthew 13, the "synagogue of Satan" which Jesus proclaimed are those who only say they are Jews, but are not. It is about the "mystery of iniquity", the "many antichrists", the "workers of iniquity" in the Old Testament. It's about the powers and principalities, rulers of darkness of this world that Apostle Paul said we wrestle with.
