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If God exists, then God is an old-fashioned liberal — because God lets Her subjects choose how to live and what to believe. Many humans throughout history have called for divine rule, but God has never accepted the invitation. "We can assume that if God wishes to rule, God will find a way to do so. The fact that God does not rule can only be taken to signify that God does not choose to"
Quoting Richard Oxenberg in his essay Is God a Liberal?
By framing God's existence through societal constructs, we ignore Their* being as said to be "outside of human comprehension." Applying Earthly concepts to an otherworldly essence decreases God's inherent value, as Their existence is supposed to be mysterious and fluid. Therefore, applying our human-conceived notions onto God's is blasphemous in the least. Although God, as depicted in the Christian Bible, shares characteristics of a modern Liberal (such as accepting gender expressions and sexualities), boxing Them into something as trivial as identity politics demeans Their power and divinity over the universe (let's not forget, it is not just Earth God is said to rule over). Playing the clarinet in 6th grade doesn't make me a musician; God being all-loving doesn't make him a Liberal.
*Note: Using They/Them when addressing God decreases my bias of using gender identifiers, a theory inapplicable to supernatural entities.
"Playing the clarinet in 6th grade doesn't make me a musician; God being all-loving doesn't make him a Liberal." - love it 😂 ❤️
Liberal in the political science definition centring around individual liberties would fit God, given he is absent and allows us to live our own lives.
In the American definition, meaning essentially left wing, no, he isn’t.
I don't think that we can classify God - the trancendent personage of infinite Good - as being aligned with a parochial set of politics. To presume God's will is a very bad idea to say the least. It is to presume that God is on our side. We should rather hope and pray that we are on God's side.
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