Before you judge me by the title read to the end.

Let’s get this straight first. Jesus, himself denounced a “body of teaching and a party spirit”, not only isolated villains. He said, “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,” as a class (Matthew 23). He also spoke to Nicodemus as one who could be born again (John 3), and John notes that many of the authorities believed, though secretly (John 12:42). So my rule is not to “never generalize.” It is “do not pretend a dominant creed is harmless because a few people under that banner are decent.”

On that narrower point:  “yes” – the governing ideology of the contemporary left (Social Democrats), as they actually speak in political parties, universities, media, and activist religion, is an enemy of biblical righteousness and of the faith that says Jesus is Lord, that we are sinners, that sex has a created end, that we must be saved by grace. That creed does not produce holiness. It produces a rival law: identity, equity (DEI), and the blessing of what Scripture calls sin. When you drill into “that” majority platform, you do not find the gospel. You find another righteousness. Paul would call that a different gospel or no gospel at all (Galatians 1:6–9). We  conservative christians are not crazy to treat this as hostile to our faith.

Two limits still matter, and they are biblical.

“1. Pharisees are the wrong historical twin of “progressives.”
They were the serious religious right of their world: they put a fence around the Law, public holiness, contempt for the unclean. Jesus’ woes fit “self-righteous religion” as much as they fit secular progressivism. The left’s majority creed is often closer to the spirit of the age that “calls evil good and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20) than to Pharisaic Torah-zeal. So we can still oppose it as a false righteousness. Just do not borrow Matthew 23 as if it were written about the DNC.

2. “Enemy ideology” is not “every soul in the democrat party is crap.” I already said that. Keep it. The gospel still addresses persons. Some under a bad banner will repent. Some under a better banner will hear “Lord, Lord” and be unknown. Jesus could say “you brood of vipers” to a school of teachers and still die for sinners from every school.

So believers: I believe  the scriptures say you may treat the left’s “ruling ideas” as opposed to the faith you cherish. This means their “ideas” are the self as the highest authority; sex and body as raw material for their will; salvation recast as liberation from godly limits (nature, family, sin and guilt before God); Christ’s exclusive claim treated as violence; the church’s moral law treated as harm. We should and I do cherish  moral and theological judgments. This is not forbidden because “not all” are bad. You can do the same toward a modern ideology without pretending you have X-ray vision into every heart. What you may not do is score holiness as measured by the Republican party, or grace measured by who our friends are and who they voted for. The Pharisee mistake was not only false teaching. It was being sure the rest of the people were the problem. The moment “saved by grace” becomes “saved by not being them,” you have left Paul for the Pharisee’s prayer: “God, I thank you that I am not like other men” (Luke 18:11).

So, the field is mixed until the harvest (Matthew 13:24–30). We are allowed to see which field is currently sown with tares of a particular kind. We are not allowed to play the harvester. Hate the creed that calls evil good. It’s ok to say so. And above all things, don’t be luke warm – do not baptize as “complexity.” Do not treat their creeds as a merely complicated, good-faith disagreement among Christians. Refuse its liturgies when they demand you deny creation, the created order of male and female, marriage, sexuality, or the cross. And then refuse the matching liturgy on your own side: the one that treats a voter file as a book of life. The gospel that actually saves is still “Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6).