Desire is not the problem. Life is not the problem. That is where many religious people, Christian or otherwise, go off the rails. It's called spiritual bypassing. The true spiritual life is about transfiguring and transforming our desires, not repressing them.
I would say that is partly right, we are to transform into a new man with a heart for God, and yet the Christian life is also full of restraint and resisting of the temptations of the Devil.
Liberalism never mandates that people do that. That's the result of personal freedom divorced from ethical responsibility. But liberalism isn't inherently opposed to ethics, even religious ones.
Liberalism makes all things optional. The individual can be ethical or immoral, and there is a marketplace opened up for the consumer of any particular lifestyle.
This system, of course, will gradually tend towards immorality, which is what happened in our actual history.
The early generations of the liberal order were themselves still products of Christendom and a Christian order of living... and so most people individually chose virtue, even under a liberal system. But every subsequent generation under Liberalism shed more and more of that Christian order.
It simply won't carry water for authoritarian religious impulses. Nor should it.
Do you think the apostle Paul struggled with authoritarian impulses?
Like when he instructed that women should be submissive to men and that homosexuality was an abomination that would bring the wrath of God?
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