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.

Homosexual Disclaimer - Know the TRUTH about your actions

Center for Disease Control

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2% of the US population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV and are the only risk group in which new HIV infections have been increasing steadily since the early 1990s. In 2006, MSM accounted for more than half (53%) of all new HIV infections in the United States, and MSM with a history of injection drug use (MSM-IDU) accounted for an additional 4% of new infections. At the end of 2006, more than half (53%) of all people living with HIV in the United States were MSM or MSM-IDU. Since the beginning of the US epidemic, MSM have consistently represented the largest percentage of persons diagnosed with AIDS and persons with an AIDS diagnosis who have died.

Lesson from "LOST" - You're more valuable than you may realize

One of the main characters named in the hit TV show "Lost" is Desmond Hume. Desmond happened to be in love with a lady whose father was extraordinarily wealthy. So, Mr. Hume decided that the proper thing to do is to ask the girl's father for permission to marry her. The father, upon hearing Desmond's proposal, stood up, walked over to his liquor cabinet, took out a bottle of whiskey along with two glasses, and walked back to his desk. He put the glasses down and poured a mouthful into one glass only. He picked it up, turned to Desmond, and said the following:

"Mr. Hume, this swallow of scotch is worth more than you could ever hope to earn in a month. If I won't share it with you, what makes you think I would let you have my daughter? You are worthless".

What a horrible thing to say. When I heard this I recalled a lesson I learned many years ago. My dad had passed a family heirloom down to me that he got from his dad. It was an old trinket that was in quite well kept condition. I decided I wanted to know what such a thing might be worth so I took it to the most reputable antique dealer I could find. I was about to get quite an education.

After examining the object closely, the antique dealer told me it was worth about twenty bucks. "What?” I said. "This thing is almost a hundred years old and you're telling me it's worthless"? He proceeded to explain how things are evaluated; how a value is placed on any given entity. Basically, whatever amount anyone is willing to pay for an item that is what the item is worth. It is referred to as the fetching price or the amount the item would fetch at auction. That is what the item is worth. It turns out that my particular item was mass produced a hundred years ago and is too common to be valuable.

So, how about you? How much value do you place on yourself? The wealthy man was wrong about Desmond and most of you reading this are probably wrong in your estimation of yourself. You have enormous value! Somebody paid an enormous price for you! Yes, you! The amount paid was more than anyone ever paid for any painting or artifact. You are valuable because the price paid was the life of a man. Not just any man. NO! It was a perfect man. The only perfect man that ever lived. And he placed such a value on you that his life was paid to secure the value.

It's too bad Desmond didn't have this knowledge. He could have reminded the rich man that his value was established two thousand years ago on a cross. His value is no less than anyone else's on earth. He, like you, was worth dying for. Even though he is a fictional character, he represents millions who have had their true value suppressed by a spirit of elitism and improper self-evaluation.

You are valuable because of the price that someone was willing to pay for the right to call you his own. It is time for you to give to him what rightfully belongs to him. You will never know your true value otherwise. You have been robbing God by withholding yourself from him. You are his. You are valuable. Now start acting like it.