[TheRealThing]

That would be negatory. You are a partisan. Plain and simple. And, you cannot disagree with a politician without being derogatory and nasty, which compromises your witness. You seldom (if ever) cite any thing or any body that would not fall under the partisan mantle.

Like I said, if just saying stuff made it so, you'd be unstoppable. I like to reference my posts, and I like the truth. You might start with those two parameters before demanding respect, which last I checked was a two way street.

In any case your criticisms and spiritual assessments seem somewhat hollow in view of the hundreds of posts you've put up in the defense of liberalism--- "A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and protection from arbitrary authority." Now if that isn't you nothing is. Essential liberty and freedom of conscience anyone? At any rate from the Biblical standpoint on human goodness, the Apostle Paul said the following; Romans 7:18 (KJV)
18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

In other words liberalism is a lie, and one that opposes God's clear condemnation of the human state. You mitigate, I indoctrinate. You can't expect me to help you look good while making excuses for the left. Which in my view gives the lost more reason to soldier on in darkness. The Church played it the way you'd like to see it (nicey nicey) for the past 6 or 7 decades, and all she has gotten for her compromise is today's enhanced contempt of the lost. Christ, with no apology, called the orthodoxy of His day a generation of snakes, and many in this day are no better. Mine is to define liberals, not to judge them. But in so doing I don't have to be a thing if not honest.

Liberalism has shortly after WW2, undertaken to oppose the Church and Christian ethics in America with great zeal. Check the record.