I'm beginning to come to the thinking that the way they think is almost spiritual and almost is a religion in itself. Many of my relatives are liberals and I wonder if I should pray with them during the holiday seasons. It says in the bible that there shall be no other God beside me so how can you be liberal and Christian at the same time. I know this sounds crazy to the average person and I could be very wrong on this but I wonder that if I know or at least belief that I am participating in another religion on to top of my believe in God then how can I pray with liberals?
The bible teaches that we should not hate or upset other people. I definitely should not use the name of God in order to advance a political agenda. Perhaps the best thing to do is to just not say anything and quietly opt-out of any kind of praying with them whatsoever.
I believe one of the reasons why the puritans left England was that it was becoming apparent that the monarchy was beginning to resemble a God. This violated their deeply held faith and left for America. This is my theory of history. I'm not really sure of the facts but if it is true (and I'm not saying that it is) then it would have profound implications for today's society. Christians (or any religion) simply can not pray with those who hold the state as some kind of God-like status. It violates the God's will (Alla's will, Budda's will, or whatever) for us on Earth to do so.
Perhaps this is the path to freedom that we want which is to remember that no person or anything that they create has no absolute authority over us like God's will does. This frees us from the power of the state since submission to their authority is optional and retractable at any moment since it is not absolute. The state can simply have no authority as great as that simply because that is reserved for God himself.
Imagine a scenario where the state told me to reject God's authority over my life and God told me to reject the state's authority over my own life. Which one of these has power over where I go in the afterlife and which one should I listen to?
Perhaps this is the path to freedom that we want which is to remember that no person or anything that they create has no absolute authority over us like God's will does. This frees us from the power of the state since submission to their authority is optional and retractable at any moment since it is not absolute. The state can simply have no authority as great as that simply because that is reserved for God himself.
Imagine a scenario where the state told me to reject God's authority over my life and God told me to reject the state's authority over my own life. Which one of these has power over where I go in the afterlife and which one should I listen to?
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