LIBERALISM - Why There's no REAL Love in the World

Liberalism is defined in the dictionary as an "unrestricted" lifestyle. Specifically it says -

"unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor"

As we will explain - there is absolutely no room for real love in this definition and so there is no room for real love in liberalism. Liberalism has destroyed the real love which used to exist in western society and now the price is being paid for it - and a heavy one at that.

Imagine looking out your window and seeing your 5 year old son wander off into the street. "He must have gotten out somehow" you think. So you begin walking calmly but briskly to the door and head outside to retrieve him. As you cross the front yard you notice a car coming down the road. Your gate picks up. You begin to do a few calculations in your mind. Can you make it in time? You look at your son who seems completely unaware. You yell out his name as you run toward him. He looks at you - confused. "Why is mommy so scared"? he wonders. He looks down the road and also sees the car... and it's very close.

There are three possible outcomes to this story. Liberalism dictates that the little boy should be permitted, without restriction, to remain in the road. What right does his mother have to "restrict" him? When she does she is imposing her own views on the matter. She is imposing conservative values on him - she is conserving his life. Yet the liberal mindset dictates that she does not have the right to do that. But the mother is imposing love on her son. She is loving him by restricting him - if that is the outcome.

"DO NO HARM". This is the oath taken by doctors who vow to never hurt - only help. Yet there is a more prevalent oath which comes ahead of "do no harm". It is Primum Succerrere. Those are the Latin words for "Hasten to Help". It is applied when a doctor breaks a bone in order to have it heal and be better. It is what the mother would apply to her son when yanking him out of harm's way while hurting him physically by pulling his arm or perhaps hurting his feelings or damaging him emotionally although saving his life. Liberalism has removed this love - this greatest of acts of salvation in favor of ignoring the consequences and watching people die.

Liberalism dictates that the mother would not even have left the house but rather watch in horror as the car plows into the boy. It was his decision to do it - his will to explore the road. She had no right to impose her values on the situation. But real love WOULD impose it's judgments on the boy - and throw itself into the situation like dog on a bone. There would be no hesitation - no pondering the "feelings" of the moment. Love just DOES it! It rushes in because it knows the alternative - it knows the results of inaction.

Liberalism is a permissive attitude toward everything and everybody. As soon as any type of restriction is placed there exists an attempt to conserve something - or somebody. If a person, for example, wishes to preserve their marriage they could not possibly hope to do so while living an unrestricted liberal sexual lifestyle. Likewise for driving privileges - you cannot drive in an unrestricted liberal manner and expect to keep your licence. In order to conserve your legal ability to drive a vehicle you must use conservative principles - like Margaret Thatcher once said: "The facts of life are conservative".

So lets extrapolate this concept to greater issues like homosexuality, promiscuity, drug use, etc. When people say it's wrong or a "sin" for a man to have sex with a man it is an act of love. Even when it hurts the person's feelings or messes with their emotions it is still love. We step in and say "wait a minute - not only does the Bible say this is wrong but science and the medical community agree - this will hurt you". Liberalism calls on us to shut up and go away; to allow the person to be hit by the car while we look on in horror - to NOT yell "fire" in a room that is engulfed in flames.

Now let's take this even further. The "Great Commission" is this -

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The ultimate love is knowing that there is a hell to shun and a heaven to embrace and then telling everyone you meet about it. Sure - there is a certain level of ego behind it. I mean, seriously, you want others to believe that your idea on eternity is right while all others are wrong. Yet you know it to be true and you know that everyone else has a ticket on the Titanic. You're offering them a way of escape. You are offering them salvation with eternal benefit and redemption from eternal suffering. This is the ultimate act of "Hasten to Help". And we continue to do it anyway, in spite of the ridicule and mocking, because the little pain today is worth the riches of salvation both for today and eternity.