Liberals, Conservatives and Reactionaries

Do terms like these play any role in the Ecclesia?

A response to a Central Christadelphian article on these terms, and how they bear directly on the Truth and the Doctrine of Fellowship

by Jim Phillips

Introduction

Definitions:  LIBERALS, CONSERVATIVES, and REACTIONARIES

Schism

Imagined Characteristics of Reactionaries (Bereans)

1.  Lovers of Themselves, not Lovers of God

2.  Asceticism

3.  Self Promotion and Fratricide

4.  Obsessions with Pollutions, Seek to Establish an Defend "World View"

5.  Pursuit of Self Justification

6.  Belief of Superior Intelligence

6 A.  Anti-Social, Suspicious, and Angry

7.  Radical Individualism

7a  Bereans Insist Upon Absolute Control

8. Public Stands for our Positions

9.  Our Position is "Spin"

9a  The Difficulties of a Conversation

10.  Insensitive to the Results of our Obedience

11.  All Division is Justifiable

12.  The "Not Invented Here Syndrom"

13.  Some Parting Shots

The Causes, Results and Cures for Reactionaries