I believe

This is just a list of things I believe

• Christianity is true
• There is one God who expresses Himself in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
• Jesus is the Son
• He lived a perfect life and died for our sins
• On the third day, he rose again
• The Bible is true
• Our views about God our important
• The truth is important
• God is the God of truth.
• He loves true things
• He loves honestly
• He hates dishonesty
• He understands when we are mistaken
• The scientific method is a fundamentally good way to discover truth about how the physical world works
• The scientific method is a fundamentally bad way to discover truth about how the spiritual world works
• Math is awesome
• People are mixed bags
• They were created in God’s image. They are imbued with a dignity and worth that cannot be removed or erased.
• They have been deeply marred by the Fall. They are fundamentally flawed and prone to all kinds of wickedness
• These things are true of all people, everywhere, at all times, regardless of race, color, creed, or socio-economic status
• People are incredibly complicated
• The liberal tradition is good. By this, I mean the principles of liberty and freedom enshrined in the works of John Locke, Adam Smith, the Declaration of Independence, do United States Constitution, the Federalist Papers, etc.
• I believe the liberal tradition is good because I believe it aligns with Biblical principles
• America is basically pretty good
• Its system of government recognizes both the good and the bad in human nature. It attempts to encourage the good and limit the opportunities for bad
• It recognizes that basic rights like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are granted by God
• The role of the government is to protect those rights, not to create them
• It is the best implementation of the liberal tradition the world has ever seen
• America is far from perfect
• While America’s principles are good, its application of those principles has been pretty poor for people who are not white men
• We were slow off the mark in the abolition of slavery
• Even after slavery ended, our treatment of black people was awful
• We treated the Native Americans shamefully
• Voting rights for women were a long time coming
• There are plenty more examples
• A great deal of corruption has been allowed to creep into our government and our legal system
• America has been improving in regard to the way it treats minorities, especially over the last 150 years or so, albeit in fits and starts with many missteps along the way
• America is currently heading in the wrong direction
• The right has lost its way and its moral compass
• The left is on the road to thought police and totalitarianism
• The alt-right Is not the whole of the right (note to the “alt” at the beginning of their name…)
• The SJW‘s are not the whole of the left
• The sane majority who are somewhere between these poles need to figure out how to take the voices of the left and the right back from the whack jobs
• I have no idea how to accomplish that
• The news media aren’t helping
• Social media aren’t helping either
• Conservatism is more closely aligned with the liberal tradition than progressivism
• I am deeply alarmed by the  new moral center being defined by progressives
• It is not compatible with traditional Judeo Christian ethics or the liberal tradition 
• I believe it is intended to supplant them
• Donald Trump
• Is not a conservative even though he has co-opted the conservative movement
• Has one guiding principle: the aggrandizement of Donald Trump
• Seems not to have a moral compass
• Lies as easily as Bill Clinton (but not as convincingly)
• Is rude and arrogant
• Has piggish and chauvinistic attitudes toward women
• Either has not actually assaulted anyone, or the Democrats have his victims sequestered somewhere so they can pull them out when they start to impeach him
• Was my absolute least favorite Republican candidate for President in 2016
• Is remarkably clever in his ability to whip the media into a frenzy
• Is remarkably clever in his ability to keep media attention focused on his person
• Usually speaks in a blather of emotion-laden nonsense
• Occasionally says something that makes me say to myself, “Huh, that’s actually a pretty good point”
• Even when he does this it’s usually done in a way that makes me say to myself, “Yeah, but did he have to be such a jerk in the way he said it?”
• Has made some policy decisions that I think are pretty good
• Has appointed some people to the Supreme Court whom I think are pretty good
• Is not someone I would like to know personally 
• Is not the absolute nadir of human corruption that progressives make him out to be
• Things that are evil (in no particular order):
• Racism
• The alt-right
• White supremacism
• White nationalism
• Anti-Semitism 
• Progressivism
• Social justice warrior-ism (Is there a better word for that?)
• Antifa
• The BLM organization 
• Police brutality 
• The abuse of power
• The Democratic Party
• The Republican Party
• Abortion
• Revisionist history
• Ignoring the bad parts of our history
• Ignoring the good parts of our history
• Nihilism
• Existentialism 
• Postmodernism
• Moral relativism 
• Epistemological relativism 
• Suppression of First Amendment rights
• The inability to speak and act civilly with people whose ideas you don’t like
• The insistence that other people must think and act the way you do
• Intentionally harming other people
• Any supposedly Christian theology that starts with the experience of man rather than the revelation of God (i.e., the Bible):
• Liberal theology
• Liberation theology
• Feminist theology
• There are lots more
• Any theology that adds a load of horse crap to the revelation of God:
• The, health, wealth, and prosperity gospel
• Christian dominionism/Theonomy
• There are more of these too
• Pornography
• Pedophilia
• Cover ups
• Sexual harassment
• Sexual assault
• Intentional injustices
• Systematic injustices
• Socialism
• Communism
• Fascism
• Nazism
• Totalitarianism
• Tyranny 

There is more, but I think that’s enough for now. I just wanted to throw these things out there as a baseline to refer back to.