One of the primary principles of modern liberalism is inclusion. Inclusion is fundamentally related to the liberal principles of diversity and equity. Together, these principles sum up the totality of liberalism as the capacity of each individual to self-create and self-define according to one's own reason and will. Thus liberalism in its fullest sense requires liberation from the ‘oppressive’ constraints of authority, nature, nation, religion, culture, family and morality. Inclusion means the acceptance and celebration of every free and equal choice and ‘equity’ means that each individual be accorded equal power and wealth as the means to afford each individual with the equal capacity to make said choices. In practice, this is the radical acceptance and celebration of sin. Liberal inclusion is the inversion of true inclusivity.
Liberal Christians often project this radical inclusion onto Christ Himself. This is often done by cherry picking Sacred Scripture. For example, the two most common quoted passages are Matthew 7:1 and John 8:7.
In Matthew 7:1 we read “Stop judging, that you may not be judged.” The liberal Christian uses this passage to argue that it is wrong to make any kind of moral judgment, both personally and legally. Specifically, this is used to defend the celebration of Pride. However, this ignores the context of the passage. The full passage reads:
“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
Clearly the passage is not refering to judgment in the abstract. Judgment and discrimination are necessary components of rational thought. We must distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and untruth, and so on. What the passage is talking about is hypocrisy. We are being instructed not to harshly and rashly judge others for their faults while ignoring our own sins. The second passage liberals use is John 8:7 where Jesus says, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Again, Jesus is talking about hypocrisy. It is the same message as before. Do not judge rashly and harshly of others while ignoring your own sins. Liberals use this passage as a universal command against all moral judgment and in turn the acceptance and celebration of sexual perversion and Pride. However, this ignores the second part of the passage where Jesus instructs the woman to “Go, [and] from now on do not sin any more.” The central message in both passages is not “do not judge”, but rather “do not sin”. The inclusion of secular liberalism is an inversion of Christian inclusion.
We know that God's love is radically inclusive as it extends to every individual who will ever exist:
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Jesus Christ suffered and died for the redemption of all human beings. On the other hand, God's love is radically exclusive for God makes exclusive claims on us. In order to receive the gift of salvation we must respond to God's grace in the correct way. God desires all of us to be a part of His body (i.e. the Catholic Church) and united to Him and each other. The sacraments are gifts available to us all, but we must respond in the affirmative to God's grace in order to participate in them. As Saint Justin Martyr said, only those baptized in the Church who affirm her teachings and continue to walk with Christ can receive the Eucharist:
But we, after we have thus washed him who has been convinced and has assented to our teaching, bring him to the place where those who are called brethren are assembled, in order that we may offer hearty prayers in common for ourselves and for the baptized [illuminated] person, and for all others in every place, that we may be counted worthy, now that we have learned the truth, by our works also to be found good citizens and keepers of the commandments, so that we may be saved with an everlasting salvation.
Having ended the prayers, we salute one another with a kiss. There is then brought to the president of the brethren bread and a cup of wine mixed with water; and he taking them, gives praise and glory to the Father of the universe, through the name of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and offers thanks at considerable length for our being counted worthy to receive these things at His hands.
And when he has concluded the prayers and thanksgivings, all the people present express their assent by saying Amen. This word Amen answers in the Hebrew language to ge’noito [so be it].
And when the president has given thanks, and all the people have expressed their assent, those who are called by us deacons give to each of those present to partake of the bread and wine mixed with water over which the thanksgiving was pronounced, and to those who are absent they carry away a portion.
This is consistent with John 3:18, which states “Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
There is a sense of radical inclusion within Christianity. The love, suffering, and sacrifice of Jesus Christ is for everyone. The Catholic Church is the universal Church open to all. However, God's universality and inclusion is fundamentally different than the inverted inclusion of liberalism. The exclusive claims of the liberal world order require the radical acceptance and celebration of sexual perversion, Pride, oikophobia, abortion, among other sins. The exclusive claim of God is simply to say “yes” to His grace.