Critiquing Christianity

The Emptiness of Liberal Christianity

How the righteousness of liberal Christianity reduces to secular humanism

Benjamin Cain
9 min readJul 12, 2022

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What’s the use of liberal Christianity? Does it add anything crucial to secular humanism or is that watered-down religion superfluous in the twenty-first century?

Let’s test the merit of liberal Christianity by considering Dan Foster’s case against the conservative Christian’s celebration of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade.

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is repulsed by the Evangelical Sean Feucht’s tweeted response to the SCOTUS decision: “Goliath is dead!!! Time to chase down the Philistines!!!” Feucht is here comparing Goliath to Roe, and he’s saying, presumably, that all secular liberal culture should be demolished too, that thanks to the David of Donald Trump, Christian forces have the secular enemies on the run and shouldn’t let anything un-Christian in the US escape the Christian’s wrath.

Or Feucht’s saying something appalling along those lines. As Foster understands it:

In Feucht’s Biblical analogy, the people of God are those who oppose abortion. Therefore, to have a different…

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Benjamin Cain

Ph.D. in philosophy / Knowledge condemns. Art redeems. / https://ko-fi.com/benjamincain / benjamincain8@gmailDOTcom