Who will be our Rachel now?' Progressives reflect on movement without Held Evans

[Bretton Garcia]

43. Even sporadically liberal people are given hell by most Christians

So is there something in Religion that seems to intrinsically opposes liberalism? Is there something in it that is essentially conservative? So that most Christians would oppose Guil's liberal religiosity.

Why is religion often very conservative? It might be intrinsic to the nature of religion, and the sacred.

Once you have declared something to be "sacred" and holy, it naturally becomes very hard to progress beyond that point. And to change, or progress.

The emphasis on "eternal" truths, makes change, advancement, difficult.

So some might applaud Guil's and others' attempts to liberalize Christianity and other religions. But we might note that there might be some internal forces at work there, that make such a thing inherently difficult. In fact, there is something in the "Sacred" itself, that seems intrinsically conservative.

Attempts to make open-mindedness itself sacred therefore, seem interesting , but difficult. If not logically self contradictory.

So maybe an inherent problem in religion and the sacred itself, is one reason many people become atheists.