What I see as liberal religion is the opposite of literal religion; it understands religious teachings as symbolic and metaphorical ways, imaginative ways, of speaking to the human condition, our human condition. The authority for this, the authority for all honest religions, is ontologica - a truth that is not determined by what we do or don’t believe, not determined by any church, creed or tradition. Saying something is an ontological truth is saying this is really the way life is, whether we like it or not.