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A '''liberal''' (also '''leftist''') is someone who rejects logical and biblical standards, often for self-centered reasons.  There are no coherent liberal standards; often a liberal is merely someone who craves attention, and who uses many words to say nothing. Liberalism began as a movement for individual liberties, but today is increasingly [[statist]], and in Europe even [[socialist]]ic.
 
A '''liberal''' (also '''leftist''') is someone who rejects logical and biblical standards, often for self-centered reasons.  There are no coherent liberal standards; often a liberal is merely someone who craves attention, and who uses many words to say nothing. Liberalism began as a movement for individual liberties, but today is increasingly [[statist]], and in Europe even [[socialist]]ic.
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* The long romance of Western leftists with some of the bloodiest regimes and political movements in history is a story not told often enough ...<ref> [http://www.city-journal.org/2009/bc0605bt.html Dupes by Bruce S. Thornton], City Journal - 5 June 2009</ref>
      
A liberal generally supports many of the following political positions and practices:
 
A liberal generally supports many of the following political positions and practices:
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* Opposition to domestic wire-tapping as authorized in the [[Patriot Act]]
 
* Opposition to domestic wire-tapping as authorized in the [[Patriot Act]]
 
* Calling anyone they agree with a "professor" regardless of whether he earned that distinction based on a real peer review of his work (see, e.g., [[Richard Dawkins]] and [[Barack Obama]]).
 
* Calling anyone they agree with a "professor" regardless of whether he earned that distinction based on a real peer review of his work (see, e.g., [[Richard Dawkins]] and [[Barack Obama]]).
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* The long romance of Western leftists with some of the bloodiest regimes and political movements in history is a story not told often enough ...<ref> [http://www.city-journal.org/2009/bc0605bt.html Dupes by Bruce S. Thornton], City Journal - 5 June 2009</ref>
    
==Liberals and Uncharitableness==
 
==Liberals and Uncharitableness==
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