The Moral Myopia of Progressive Christians

Written by Dr. Everett Piper

Last week, a friend sent me an article and asked for my opinion. The author of the essay in question is a “progressive Christian” named Tripp Fuller. His long, verbose column is titled “Bonhoeffer’s Warning, Unheeded: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism.”

Painful though it was, I read all 7,300 words of Mr. Fuller’s musings, and here is what he said in a nutshell: Today’s “White evangelicals” are like the German Christians of the 1930s, and, like them, we are “sequentially complicit” in the evils of a Nazi regime.

In other words, America’s White evangelicals are “frogs in the kettle” whose consciences have been slowly “boiled” by our moral compromise with the Republican Party.

That’s it. Mr. Fuller could have saved himself a lot of words and barrels of ink and just said, “If you want to know what’s wrong with America, look no further than ‘White evangelicals.’ Their sellout to the Republican Party is the cause of all that ails us.”

Am I the only one who gets weary of the hypocritical duplicity of oxymoronic “Christians” such as Mr. Fuller? I mean, seriously, how could such a self-declared “scholar” be so clueless?

Has it never crossed his mind that millions of “White evangelicals” vote for Republicans for a variety of reasons other than superficial political alignment? Never mind that the party Mr. Fuller and his liberal sycophants favor supports government collectivism over individual responsibility, drag queens over the dignity of women and the sexual indoctrination of children over the innocence of little boys and girls.

Never mind that they align with those who champion illegal immigrants over the blue-collar citizens in Springfield, Ohio, who are being overrun by the crime and vagrancy of these imported masses.

Never mind that Mr. Fuller’s politics favor illegal gangs over the working-class Hispanic Americans in Aurora, Colorado, who are afraid to leave their apartments because another country’s murderous thugs have taken over their neighborhoods and streets.

Never mind that Mr. Fuller’s politics favor illegal gangs over the working-class Hispanic Americans in Aurora, Colorado, who are afraid to leave their apartments because another country’s murderous thugs have taken over their neighborhoods and streets.

How can they not see that we vote Republican because we are appalled by the racism of critical race theory and the divisive agenda of diversity, equity and inclusion?

I could go on and on, but the point is clear.

What Tripp Fuller’s long-winded, condescending essay tells us more than anything else is that he and his acolytes (i.e., his tribe of “progressive Christians”) are the ones being slowly cooked in the proverbial pot, much more so than the conservative “White evangelicals” they bemoan.

The fact that this guy can’t see that he is the poster child for the “sequential complicity” that he pedantically criticizes is nothing short of stunning. My land, he just spent 7,300 words blathering on about the moral compromise of “White evangelicals” while apparently blind to his own rampant moral compromise.

These liberals could save themselves a lot of words by simply quoting Pogo: “We have met the enemy, and it is us.”

A good dose of self-awareness never hurt anybody. These proudly deconstructed “Christians” (and I use that term loosely) would all do well to go back and reread Matthew 7:5. “You hypocrites, first take the log out of your own eye.”

Talk about a frog in a kettle.

This article was originally published by The Washington Times.