I have seen this YouTube video on a number of websites, and most recently over at HotAir. It's well done, passionate, and unanswerable. Technically, the juxtaposition of voice and graphics would be worth viewing even for those who resist the message.
Update 5/19/09- Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput offers hard hitting comments on Notre Dame and the issues that remain
Update 5/19/09 - Chuck Colson offers excellent (if depressing) commentary on President Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame University. Particularly disturbing, as Colson says, "was the appalling sight of the field house filled with faculty, students, and parents wildly cheering." I felt exactly the same way.
Do read all of Colson's commentary. As shocking as it may seem when first stated, Colson is right to
underscore J. Gresham Machen's contention. Machen
warned that there is no such thing as liberal Christianity. There is Christianity and then there is liberalism.
As Colson says,
What we saw in the auditorium Sunday was, for the most part, a crowd of what Machen would call cheering liberals—that is, people who claim to be Christian but deny the essential teachings. The true Christians were on the outside, protesting. . .
Does that sound harsh and intolerant? From one perspective, I guess it does. But from rigorous (and not all that rigorous, actually), hard, intellectual analysis, Machen and Colson are right. Christianity and liberalism are indeed two different religions, and it is only mushy-headedness, no matter how well-meaning, that fails to acknowledge that fact.
I don't enjoy drawing lines in the sand. I am a tolerant, broad-minded evangelical, an "ecumenical evangelical" of sorts, able to rub shoulders with charismatics and fundamentalists alike, even though I am in neither camp. But liberalism crosses a line beyond which it ceases to be Christianity in any historical or logically-recognizable form. Some positions fall outside of Christian faith, no matter what the label.
Machen's classic Christianity and Liberalism, first published in 1923, is available online in its entirety.