The Grave Danger of Liberal Protestantism

 By Al Baker - Posted at Forget None of His Benefits:

“. . . be renewed in the spirit of your mind.” -Ephesians 4:23

Nelson Rockefeller, the grandson of John D. Rockefeller (America’s first billionaire who made his money through his company, Standard Oil), was the governor of New York for three terms (1959-1973), and ran three times as a Republican candidate for President of the United States. The Rockefellers were chaste, moral people who did not drink, smoke, or use profanity. John Sr. and his son John Jr. personally read the Bible daily and led their families in family worship. They were social gospel Baptists who had a deep compassion for the poor and gave huge sums of money to help them. John Jr. strongly supported the ministry of Harry Emerson Fosdick, the well known liberal Baptist preacher. When Fosdick preached his famous sermons “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”, Rockefeller Jr. printed 130,000 copies and sent one to every Protestant minister in the country. John Jr. also built Riverside Church on the Upper West Side of New York City from which Fosdick continued his progressive liberal agenda. Rockefeller Jr. also built the Interchurch Center, a haven for liberal Protestant, ecumenical agencies. The Rockefellers were also big supporters of Union Theological Seminary which has long been a major player in the liberal, social gospel initiative.

Nelson followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather as a social gospel progressive and philanthropist. Nelson and his wife were chaste when they married and continued the practice of Nelson’s father and grandfather—daily prayers and Bible reading, church attendance every Sunday, and giving to the needy. Something happened, however, to Nelson (also known as Rocky) several years into his marriage. He became a serial, unrepentant adulterer. Rocky was leading in the race for the Republican Party nomination in 1964 when he divorced his wife of thirty-two years, leaving five children, and then urged his young adulteress to divorce her husband and marry him. This move cost him the 1964 Republican Party nomination for President. One thing is clear—Rocky’s societal morality in caring for the poor did not translate into a personal morality.

Things went from bad to worse. Though a Republican and supposedly one who would champion smaller government, he was actually a big spending liberal who believed, with John Maynard Keynes, that big government spending is the key to overcoming every kind of social ill. Rocky and FDR were of the same ilk. While governor of New York in the late 50’s through the early 70’s Nelson Rockefeller drastically increased the welfare state in New York which is firmly ensconced, even to this day. Under his leadership New York was the first state to liberalize abortion laws. His father and grandfather were long time proponents of population control and eugenics. In 1970 Rocky signed a bill allowing abortion in his state for the first two trimesters, and when a Roman Catholic supported campaign to repeal the new law succeeded, Nelson vetoed the bill in 1972, one year before Roe vs. Wade.

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