Is Christianity a conservative or liberal religion?

Is Christianity conservative or liberal?

  • Conservative

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  • It has elements of both conservatism and liberalism

  • Christianity is neither conservative nor liberal


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Christianity is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). By believing in the redeeming power of our savior, we will inherit eternal life in heaven.

No doubt that Christianity is the one true faith. It’s also a fascinating religion. But do you think it’s a conservative or liberal religion? Discuss.

If you answer, make sure to support your views with scripture.
 

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It depends upon the definition of liberal and conservative.

In the United State these are typically associated with party politics. Thus, as it currently stands the Republican Party and President Trump in particular, are the advocates of conservatism and the Democratic Party and its representatives are the advocates to liberalism. If one views these definitions and attempts to associate Christianity with either side, one is faced with a daunting task because each side denies essential Christian teaching as well as advocates for various Christian teachings.

On the other hand, within a theological context, conservatism is traditionally associated with either Protestant Fundamentalism or the elements within Traditional bodies of Christianity such as Orthodoxy and Catholicism who wish to maintain and unchanging Church. Liberalism, by contrast, is associated with either twentieth-century Modernists within Protestantism or certain elements within Catholicism following Vatican II who seek to alter the faith and practices that existed prior to Vatican II.

Until you can provide a working definition of conservative and liberal I will withhold my vote.
 
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Christianity is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). By believing in the redeeming power of our savior, we will inherit eternal life in heaven.

No doubt that Christianity is the one true faith. It’s also a fascinating religion. But do you think it’s a conservative or liberal religion? Discuss.

If you answer, make sure to support your views with scripture.
it can't be either one becuase christianity doesn't change.

But even conservatives change in certain things now you can make the argument that as far as social issues go christianity leans towards and is supported more so by conservatism, and liberalism is more anti christianity but yeah.
 
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I voted neither. The political definitions of the words "conservative" and "liberal" have changed greatly in the last 50 years. But our Faith is more solid than that.

Jesus Christ, the same yesterday today and forever.
 
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Christianity is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). By believing in the redeeming power of our savior, we will inherit eternal life in heaven.

No doubt that Christianity is the one true faith. It’s also a fascinating religion. But do you think it’s a conservative or liberal religion? Discuss.

If you answer, make sure to support your views with scripture.

It's relative to the culture that it finds itself in. To first century Judaism, Christianity must have seemed incredibly liberal. In 21st century America, Christianity sometimes seems very conservative.
 
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I believe Christianity is based on God's "truth" (John 17:17) and I do not see that God's truth is conservative or liberal...truth is truth. 1+1=2 is a mathematical truth but I do not see this mathematical truth as being conservative or liberal...one either has the truth or they do not have it and there are no varying degrees (conservative or liberal) of truth, i,e., people cannot interpret truth to be whatever they want it to be and everyone be right.
So conservatism or liberalism must line up with God's truth or they do not. From my view point conservatism lines up more with God's truth than liberalism. Off the top of my head right now I cannot think of any liberalism that lines up with God's truth.
 
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Christianity is the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). By believing in the redeeming power of our savior, we will inherit eternal life in heaven.

No doubt that Christianity is the one true faith. It’s also a fascinating religion. But do you think it’s a conservative or liberal religion? Discuss.

If you answer, make sure to support your views with scripture.

Can be anything. "Christianity" is a very wide term
 
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I believe Christianity is based on God's "truth" (John 17:17) and I do not see that God's truth is conservative or liberal...truth is truth. 1+1=2 is a mathematical truth but I do not see this mathematical truth as being conservative or liberal...one either has the truth or they do not have it and there are no varying degrees (conservative or liberal) of truth, i,e., people cannot interpret truth to be whatever they want it to be and everyone be right.
So conservatism or liberalism must line up with God's truth or they do not. From my view point conservatism lines up more with God's truth than liberalism. Off the top of my head right now I cannot think of any liberalism that lines up with God's truth.

The idea that any kind of person can be saved and have an equal inheritance in the kingdom of God - man, woman, barbarian, scythian, slave, free, Jew, Gentile, adult, child, rich, poor - is an incredibly liberal idea.
 
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The idea that any kind of person can be saved and have an equal inheritance in the kingdom of God - man, woman, barbarian, scythian, slave, free, Jew, Gentile, adult, child, rich, poor - is an incredibly liberal idea.

I do not see that it is anymore liberal than conservative. I see that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" as a conservative idea. I see the liberal idea of "economic equality" is not the same as the gospel equally being for all.
 
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I do not see that it is anymore liberal than conservative. I see that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" as a conservative idea.

It's a real shame that the concept of "all men were created equal" was only a facade for the first 188 years of America's existence and it wasn't fully implemented into federal law until the Civil Rights Movement in 1964. It would have been much better for this country if that concept of equality had been implemented when this country first started. It could have very well avoided the 89 years of legalized slavery (1776 to 1865), the nearly 100 years of "Separate but Equal" legalized segregation, the Jim Crows laws, and the centuries of racial violence and inequality African Americans and other minorities have had to endure living in this country. There never would have been a near 200 year struggle by these minorities to genuinely experience the unalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as promised in the Declaration of Independence. It's truly sad it took nearly 200 years for minorities living in this country to finally begin to experience some freedom and some liberty, and on occasion, some justice, that the United States perpetually claims to have been founded upon.
 
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It's a real shame that the concept of "all men were created equal" was only a facade for the first 188 years of America's existence and it wasn't fully implemented into federal law until the Civil Rights Movement in 1964. It would have been much better for this country if that concept of equality had been implemented when this country first started. It could have very well avoided the 89 years of legalized slavery (1776 to 1865), the nearly 100 years of "Separate but Equal" legalized segregation, the Jim Crows laws, and the centuries of racial violence and inequality African Americans and other minorities have had to endure living in this country. There never would have been a near 200 year struggle by these minorities to genuinely experience the unalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as promised in the Declaration of Independence. It's truly sad that it took nearly 200 years for minorities living in this country to finally experience the freedom, liberty and justice for themselves that the United States of America perpetually claims to have been founded upon.

I agree yet America is one of the few, if not the only country, that works to fix its problems. Slavery still exists in the world in other countries. No perfection in this world.
 
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I agree yet America is one of the few, if not the only country, that works to fix its problems. Slavery still exists in the world in other countries. No perfection in this world.

Actually England abolished slavery before America did. Anyway, how many other countries are claimed to have been founded on Christian principles or claimed to be a Christian nation by certain groups within its Christian population? Which other countries perpetually boast about being founded on freedom, liberty, and justice for all or claimed that "all men were created equal" and yet spent the majority of its entire existence oppressing, subjugating, and discriminating against the minorities living with its borders? Granted, America has made some slow strides in improving the social justice conditions for minorities over the last 53 years, since the Civil Rights Movement in 1964.

The point I was attempting to make in my previous post was this, if the moral concept of "all men were created equal" (in a supposedly Christian nation that was supposedly founded on Christian principles) had been actually implemented when this country was first started, then all of that racial turmoil, racial violence, and racial injustice could have prevented. But sadly, it wasn't prevented and all the boasting that's done about America being founded on freedom, liberty, and justice for all, is nothing more than a popular hollow facade. Sadly, this claim of America's founding isn't the truth.
 
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How many other countries are claimed to have been founded on Christian principles or claimed to be a Christian nation by certain groups within its Christian population? Which other countries perpetual ly boast about being founded on freedom, liberty, and justice for all or claimed that "all men were created equal" and yet spent the majority of its entire existence oppressing, subjugating, and discriminating against the minorities living with its borders?
Poison your question like you are doing there and you probably can produce the conclusion you are trying for--at least on paper.
 
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Actually England abolished slavery before America did. Anyway, how many other countries are claimed to have been founded on Christian principles or claimed to be a Christian nation by certain groups within its Christian population? Which other countries perpetually boast about being founded on freedom, liberty, and justice for all or claimed that "all men were created equal" and yet spent the majority of its entire existence oppressing, subjugating, and discriminating against the minorities living with its borders? Granted, America has made some slow strides in improving the social justice conditions for minorities over the last 53 years, since the Civil Rights Movement in 1964.

If the moral concept of "all men were created equal" (in a supposedly Christian nation, which was supposedly founded on Christian principles) had been actually implemented when this country was first started, then all of that racial turmoil, racial violence, and racial injustice could have prevented.

And that was the point of my previous post.

America is not a Christian nation, never has been nor has it ever been perfect and never will be perfect. Yet it does try to fix its problems and even with it's problems, people from the world over still try and 'knock the doors down' to get in here. Nor do I believe the slavery from 150 years ago has a dramatic effect on the black community today.
 
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The idea that any kind of person can be saved and have an equal inheritance in the kingdom of God - man, woman, barbarian, scythian, slave, free, Jew, Gentile, adult, child, rich, poor - is an incredibly liberal idea.

The implications of which, arguably, have taken thousands of years to work out. Some of the early church fathers had more Greek-inspired ideas about the status of slaves and women, frankly.

Christianity can be conservative or liberal depending on the tradition/denomination in question. My own church, the ELCA, is a big tent, and politically we are representatives of both Democrats and Republicans. Though we tend to be more liberal than the average member of this forum, in the sense that we leave a great deal of behavior and opinion up to individual conscience and insist on liberty in matters that are not essential.
 
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