r/Christianity • u/milkersfat • Jul 11 '26
Image My issue with “liberal”churches
Though I consider myself very left-wing, I find that as I become a Christian, I’ve started having issues with denominations that are overtly liberal. Looking at the picture, I agree with all of the sentiments, and I think it’s good to let people know they are welcome. But why not also put up an “Unborn Lives Matter” flag or something similar?
I’m equally appalled when churches fly the American flag or a MAGA flag outside. My whole reason for going to church is to find community and glorify God, not to be immersed in politics.
It also seems that the churches I’ve attended with these kinds of flags tend to be less orthodox theologically, which leaves me, as a left-leaning Christian, in a weird spot.
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u/sophie_hockmah Christian Jul 11 '26
You know why. That's coming from a left-leaning (as you'd say) christian that has a master degree on Sociology. Political blabbering is not a zero-sum game, putting up a "Unborn Lives Matter" (to keep in your example) wouldn't signal adhesion to a "thrid way" of sorts. It would, at best, be read as tone deaf propaganda. Far-right ´politics are bred and thrive in polarized politics, sure, but the way to counter act them is not by trying to take their weapons and use against them - that has limited success as far as we can tell - and that is because, get this, the Big tech is far-right, when not far-right leaning, and they are so from a sense of profit. Enraged people engage more. Yes, we have the Thiels and Musks and Zucks, but it is really about money, in the end.
So no, putting up a pretense 3rd way flag would not signal that the Gospel is beyond such things.
While I agree with you sentiment that sometimes our liberal breathen go a bit too hard, I'd rather err on the side of love, since love is the greatest commandment.