The More Conservative The Church, The Less Likely It's True

I think a solid case can be made for the title of this post. Hopefully some conservative Christians might even be able see this themselves in what follows (but I don't have my hopes up). Consider first the differences between conservative and liberal Christianities:

Liberal Christianity, broadly speaking, is a method of biblical hermeneutics, an undogmatic method of understanding God through the use of scripture by applying the same modern hermeneutics used to understand any ancient writings. Liberal Christianity does not claim to be a belief structure, and as such is not dependent upon any Church dogma or creedal statements. Unlike conservative varieties of Christianity, it has no unified set of propositional beliefs. The word liberal in liberal Christianity denotes a characteristic willingness to interpret scripture while attempting to achieve the Enlightenment ideal of objective point of view, without preconceived notions of the inerrancy of scripture or the correctness of Church dogma. LINK.

When it comes to the most liberal denominations several of them rise to the top of any list, most notably the Unitarian Universalist Church. Churches considered to be mainline include the following ones: The United Church of Christ, Episcopalian, Disciples of Christ, United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (the name is misleading), American Baptist USA, and the Society of Friends (Quakers).

We can somewhat loosely break the denominations down into groups:

Baptist groups:
Liberal: American Baptist USA,
Conservative: Southern Baptist
Very Conservative: Independent Baptist, Primitive Baptist

Church of Christ groups:
Liberal: Disciples of Christ
Conservative: Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

Methodist groups:
Liberal: United Methodist Church
Conservative: Church of the Nazarene

Lutheran groups:
Very liberal: United Church of Christ
Liberal: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Conservative: Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
Very conservative: Lutheran Church-Wisconsin Synod

Presbyterian groups:
Liberal: United Presbyterian Church U.S.A.
Conservative: Presbyterian Church in America, Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America

Jewish groups (while we're at it):
Liberal: Reconstructionist Judaism
Conservative: Reformed Judaism
Very Conservative: Orthodox Judaism

Keep in mind that individual churches can vary within each denomination, and individuals within each church can vary as well. Most Episcopal churches are are very liberal. Roman Catholic biblical scholars are overwhelmingly liberal. Almost all Missionary Churches are conservative.

So what leads me to say conservative churches are less likely to be true? Several things.

The more liberal the church the more it accepts the results of science and reasoning.
The more liberal the church the more it accepts the virtue of tolerance.
The more liberal the church the more it accepts the separation of church and state.
The more liberal the church the more it is community-minded.
The more liberal the church the more ecumenical it is by accepting other churches.
The more liberal the church the less it claims to know.

The more conservative the church the less it accepts the results of science and reasoning.
The more conservative the church the less it accepts the virtue of tolerance.
The more conservative the church the less it accepts the separation of church and state.
The more conservative the church the less it is community-minded
The more conservative the church the less ecumenical it is by rejecting other churches.
The more conservative the church the more it claims to know the truth about everything.

What then are the recognized virtues that lead me to say this?

Science and reasoning are recognized good intellectual virtues. Faith is a vice. Liberals are more consistent in that they accept the results of science and reasoning in more areas than conservatives. Conservatives usually deny science by punting to faith.

Tolerance is a recognized good virtue. Intolerance is a vice. Liberals are more consistent in that they are tolerant of more diversity of thought than conservatives. Conservatives usually are more intolerant and bigoted.

Separating church and state is a recognized good virtue. Theocracy is a vice. Liberals support the separation of church and state. Conservatives usually don't.

Being community-minded is a recognized good virtue. Salvation oriented theologies are too interested in a heavenly goal that they are less earthly good. Liberals are community-minded. Conservatives are mostly interested in getting people to heaven regardless of the injustices on earth. In fact, some conservatives welcome a world gone to hell in a hand-basket since this is supposed to be a sign that the end is near.

Getting along with other churches is a virtue having to to with love. Since liberals believe less there is less standing in the way between them. Some conservatives, by contrast, condemn each other to hell.

Recognizing we don't know that much is a good humble virtue. Claiming to have all the answers is ignorant. Real knowledge comes by recognizing we are ignorant about a great many things, especially in this explosive era of knowledge. Liberals are more humble in that they don't claim to have all the answers. Conservatives seem to think they can pontificate on any subject with their Bibles in hand.

Any questions?