It's that time of year again

 When Christians who have thrown their lot in with the Left rush out to explain:

Last year it was Dawn Eden's turn IIRC

It's become like those years when the news media would come out every Christmas and Easter to explain the real story behind those holidays. You can bet on it happening.  In this case it's the Christian Left forever suggesting that everything we thought we understood about the Christian faith and its teachings might not be the case.  A major theme in the modern Church it's worth noting.  And a boon for non-Christians and opponents of the Gospel if there ever was one. 

Of course it's bunk, as is so often the case.  Not that if I say I am proud of my sons it means I should burn in Hell.  We get that I can be proud of my sons.  Or my wife.  Or my parents.  Or my country.  I can take pride in that project I finished.  That is understood.  

But that's not what this is about, and we all know it.  It's justifying fealty to the Left, plain and simple. Just as those whole life and seamless garment Catholics have been so silent about the killing of that young man in Britain, or the latest case of a girl whose breasts were cut off when she was a minor owing to the Transgender movement.  Or any host of cases where rape or murder or genocide or oppression or injustice occurs, but might in some way make the narratives of the Left look flawed.  If it can't ignore inconvenient topics, it tries to muddle them in some way to avoid confronting the obvious*.  FWIW, this approach is aided by a sympathetic media and education system willing to do the same.  

I'm getting to the point where I'm honestly hard-pressed to imagine anything the Left could do that would cause the Christian Left to rise up and say enough.  Which might be why the Left, secular though it is, never really butts heads with those holding otherwise contemptable religious views who are also on the Left.  Why bother?  It is also probably why I have yet to see any Christian - including Catholic - I know who is even slightly to the left of center address the names Jesse Ridgeway, Henry Nowak, Austin Metcalf or Chloe Cole.  And I don't suspect I will. 

That's why it's imperative to never do that for Christians who don't swing left of center.  It's OK to keep things in perspective, to not fall for press narratives or false accusations against this Republican or that Trump moment.  But if something is done or said that is heinous, wrong, sinful or similar, then for heaven's sake call it out.  The last thing we want to do is assume people are too stupid to see what we would be doing, much less assume the Almighty is no less stupid.  

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.  Galatians 6.7-8

*It is worth noting that one of the pillars of various Liberation Theologies is the Oppressed v. Oppressor template.  That is, all things are filtered through one's status as part of the oppressed or oppressor demographic.  And that usually means oppressed of the West and its heritage or not.  So for instance, in Feminist Theology pride is certainly a sin ... where men are concerned.  Because it's obvious men (the oppressors) are awash in it and have been for eons.  But for women (the oppressed), pride can indeed be a virtue.  For them, humility itself could be sinful, for it might keep them from being their true selves and rising up against the shackles of ages old injustices.  Whether the above apologetic is assuming that template or not I don't know.  It just brought to mind how radically different many leftwing interpretations of the Faith are from their historical approaches.