“If human beings are in rebellion against God, if humans as Paul teaches in Romans suppress the truth even of nature in unrighteousness, and if faith only comes from the supernatural work of God’s Spirit in regenerating a person, then belief is not some sort of intellectual ascendancy to truth, beauty and goodness.”

Jason Jones and John Zmirak think liberals are incoherent at best and dangerous at worst. The danger comes from a set of assumptions that liberals make, like these:

Christianity is intrinsically intolerant and dangerous.
Islam is a religion of inclusion and peace.

Women can serve as front-line combat troops for the United States Marines.
Female Islamist refugees can pose no threat to America.

It is healthy and good for most people in the world to identify themselves with their racial or ethnic group.
It is profoundly evil and dangerous for Westerners to do the same.

It is hateful for Americans of European descent to “appropriate” elements of other cultures, for instance by wearing sombreros on Halloween.
It is courageous for a man to identify as a woman, and we must honor “her” identity with access to the Ladies’ Room.

Marriage is a meaningless social construct that was created to oppress women.
This institution is central to human dignity, and must be extended to all manner of relationships.

Eating meat is morally problematic.
Abortion up through the ninth month of pregnancy is an absolute human right.

So much for liberal tolerance. With neighbors like these . . .

But aside from such antipathy to Christians, the liberal’s outlook which is supposed to be reasonable is neither liberal nor rational:

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