Liberals Hate the Bible?

The email came from a completely unknown person.  The subject line had "Why Liberals hate the Bible."  The email claimed to have a video that would irritate the Liberals even more and make them hate the Bible with a greater passion.  I did not look at the video.

It is not true that liberals hate the Bible. I know a great number of liberals who love Jesus and who seek to understand the scriptures and to follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit. What most of the liberals I know hate is what has been done to the Bible by power hungry, conservative, religious preachers.

What I find most disturbing are two things: one the desire to impose their Christianity upon the whole world. Not to offer that grace of Jesus as a gift, but to enforce it by law.  Jesus Christ is the gift of God's love to the world and Jesus suggested that the love ought to be set on a lamp stand and let the light shine and people could come to it. There did not seem to be any desire on his part to "make" other people believe or behave the way he said. Two, the way they deny the power of God's gift of salvation by their actions.  If we are saved by the Cross of Jesus, and that has been done, then those who accept the gift have no fear of it being tainted or destroyed by what others do. If the clerk is in fact a saved Christ by the grace of Jesus, then her salvation is not in danger by her doing her job and issuing marriage licenses to those who apply. If the doctor is a born again Christian then his salvation is not removed if he provides medical treatment to women who had done what he considers sinful acts.

All Liberals do not hate God. Liberals do not all hate Jesus, Liberals do not all hate the Bible. What we hate is the way that people like Franklin Graham, Joel Osteen, so many evangelical conservative people use it as a club to bash others and to leverage themselves into political power.