The American Spectator

Special Report

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blockquote>Though the cause of evil prosper, br> Yet 'tis truth alone is strong; br> Though her portion be the scaffold, br> And upon the throne be wrong: br> Yet that scaffold sways the future, br> And behind the dim unknown, br> Standeth God within the shadow br> Keeping watch above his own. /blockquote> br> Does today's Religious Left, after decades of theological deconstruction, still believe that God is still "keeping watch above His own"? It often appears not. "Process theology," a fad of liberal Protestant seminaries, denies the Christian view that God is omnipotent and instead proposes that God is constantly evolving. A leading process theologian is David Ray Griffin of United Methodist Claremont seminary in California and a prominent 9-11 conspiracy theorist who insists that the Bush Administration blew up the World Trade Center and Pentagon to justify its wars. Many thousands are complicit in the plot, of course.

Having dethroned God as the ruler of history, process theology admits that evil and its endless conspiracies can spiral onward indefinitely, perhaps even eternally. Consciously or not, the modern Religious Left, unlike earlier liberal religionists, seems to subscribe to this despairing cosmology. More traditional people of faith, whatever their views on the Iraq War, have far more cause for hope.

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