Theologian Albert Mohler has warned of the rise of “secular conservatism” both in America and around the world, arguing that any form of conservatism divorced from belief in God and divine revelation is fundamentally He claims that he is not conservative at all. The cultural commentator and president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary argues in his new e-book: The illusion of a secular state and the powerlessness of secular conservatism,among them He argues that a conservative movement that denies God would abandon longstanding hallmarks of conservatism, such as defending the unborn child and recognizing the Bible's definition of gender.
book This is an edit of Mr. Mohler's speeches in recent years, including this summer's speech at the National Conservative Conference in Washington, D.C.
“To be a conservative is to maintain allegiance to certain fixed truths and principles,” Mohler writes. “…Conservatism requires not only tradition but also fixed religious truths. Underline fact These fixed religious truths are based on specific acts of divine revelation, on which we are totally dependent. ”
Mohler said the American political and ideological left is not based on an “objective moral order” and embraces the unbiblical notion that “boys can be girls, and girls can be boys.” claims.
“The left doesn't bring its own ontological commitments to the table at all. It's all politics and power. That's all they can see. Conservatism, which plays the same game and shares the same assumptions, , it's not true conservatism. It's just a language game or a way to buy time,” he asserts. “…when you have a conservative movement that is not committed to its own ontology, everything collapses into a question of endless negotiation.”
American conservatives, he writes, should not follow the lead of the British Conservative Party, whose former leader David Cameron spearheaded a push to legalize same-sex marriage.
“At that point, the entire ontological structure of the created order was denied by a party that still dared call itself conservative. A party that does such a thing does not deserve conservative recognition, much less a conservative party. This act was extremely brazen and denied the order of creation and the order that made this civilization possible…a persistent conservatism that is not based on revealed truth and self-awareness. does not exist. in Ontology. To be conservative is to affirm reality. If we lose this belief, we lose everything. ”
Undoubtedly, Mohler writes, conservatives need cultural “secular allies.” But, “Ultimately, I believe that without an ontological commitment based on theological convictions, there can be no durable conservatism.” found” he writes.
America was established Mohler argues for the affirmation of divine revelation.
“When the founders spoke of nature and nature's God, and asserted that we are 'endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights,' they were not merely embellishing or descriptive words. “The Declaration of Independence claims truth,” he wrote.
Conservatism, Mohler concludes, “must be based on a commitment to truth.”
“A consistently held secular worldview negates what we believe. absolutely “Conservatism that negotiates that worldview will end up the same way,” he writes.
today's society facing It is an “insidious attack” on “human dignity and the sanctity of life, the goodness of marriage and family, the structure of human society, and even the reality of right and wrong,” he wrote.
“We live in the midst of a great rebellion against transcendent reality, against what is true, good, and beautiful,” he writes. “…I do not believe that this country and all that it represents can survive by abandoning its theological roots. We must either return to those roots and commitments or Otherwise, you will lose everything.”
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