President Obama's Gallup approval rating amongst liberal Democrats for April 2nd-8th is 87%.

[Bonobo]

79. Well if you're just using "liberal" without any meaning behind it, you are right.

But fortunately, the issue is not as hard to get to the bottom of as religious belief.

"Believing" oneself to be a "liberal" does not make one so. It is not as if there is no relationship between the label "liberal" and the political positions one takes. There is --and it is easily comparable to other positions that have been taken or not taken in the past.

So you can call yourself a "liberal" if you want. But if you espouse policies that are not liberal positions, than your claim is shown to be a lie.

In other words, as I said, self-identifying as a liberal does not make yourself a liberal.

In that sense, it is most assuredly NOT like religion where belief is all that really is demanded.

I hope you will give it some thought and maybe you'll see why your analogy falls so flat.