According to Murphy and Cooperman, “religious liberals…are engaged today in their most intensive bout of political organizing and alliance-building since the…anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s.” That’s right; the “First Church of Woodstock” is putting its steeple back up. That free loving, dope smoking, rock-and-rolling, anti-establishment congregation of flower children is once again peering down on the puritanical from its psychedelic stained glass windows.

Murphy and Cooperman attribute this “revival of the religious left” (and who says we can’t have revival in America) to “a reaction against” the success of “moral values” voters in the 2004 elections. Scared that others will conclude that they are irreligious and immoral, because of their support of such things as “abortion and same-sex marriage,” the religious left is on the march to prove that they have values too. Take for example, liberals’ strong convictions on subjects like “health care and global warming,” not to mention their unwavering opposition to “secret prisons” for terrorists.

Religious liberals may ignore and even promote the annual slaughter of 1.5 million unborn children in America, but they won’t remain silent as long as they have suspicions that a single terrorist is being mistreated. Religious liberals may not care about the meltdown of traditional marriage—the God ordained cornerstone of all orderly society—but they care deeply about the melting polar ice caps. Although they may be more concerned about the rights of an enemy combatant than they are an unborn child’s right to life or about rising greenhouse gas emissions than they are the decline of the traditional family in America, liberals still insist that they’re just as religious as the next guy.

As far as I’m concerned, liberals are right. Many of them are religious, but so is Osama bin Laden. While the left may be pro-religion, it is anti-Christian, as all religions have always been. The left admires religion’s countless wide gates and broad paths to God, but it abhors the single straight gate and narrow path of Christianity (Matthew 7:13-14). The left believes in man’s inherent goodness and ability to save himself and his world. It belies, however, Christians’ belief in the fall of man and mankind’s need of a Savior. While liberals are always willing to strike up a chorus of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” they’ll never confess that “there is no other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). What’s more, the “religious left” will always be at war with the “Christian right”; that is, with all who do confess that Jesus Christ is man’s only hope of salvation.