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Social justice push
From Paul Kane, White Lake Township:
I enjoyed the letter from Denise Black (Aug. 29 Spinal Column Newsweekly) until she said “social justice.” May I explain?
The United Nations General Assembly declared an annual “Social Justice Day” and when doing so proclaimed that: “Present-day believers in … virtue and justice are neither willing nor desirable companions for the defenders of social justice.”
In the 1930s, Catholic theologian John Ryan warned that the social justice agenda would likely be called “communistic,” but that we should go with it anyway. Also in the 1930s, Father Charles Coughlin outlined 16 requirements for social justice which included that all “necessities” should be nationalized because they are too important to be left in the hands of private individuals. (That implies that D.C. should seize power over private businesses and/or the private lives of all Americans.)
Finally, Jonah Goldberg in his latest book has a chapter on the topic. To quote: “It makes no sense to speak of social justice in a free society, because to do so assumes that we should not in fact live in a free society … The fundamental problem with social justice is that … [I]t is an open-ended license for the forces of goodness to do what they think is right forever.”
Social justice means that the government will force everyone to do good Christian deeds. However, Christianity requires that each individual choose to do good Christian deeds. Being forced is the opposite of choosing for oneself, thus pushing social justice is absolutely the opposite of what Christianity teaches.
I see Denise Black had Ed. D, Milford after name. Does that suggest she’s an educator in Milford schools? Egad. Please Denise, stop pushing the social justice bilge, immediately.
I’m also astounded that those two guys from the 1930s dared to call themselves Catholic.
2 Responses to Social justice push
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Don
September 27, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Hmmmm… Considering “Good Christian deeds” are responsible for the mass murders of hundreds of thousands during the inquisition, crusades, Salem witch trials, murder of the Myans and countless other civilizations all for the “Good” of Christianity and Catholism……… Would have to say that the “facts of history” paint a much different reality of what good Christian / Catholic values claim to bring about.
AJ
September 30, 2012 at 1:35 am
The vast majority of Christians (both alive and now deceased) are not and were never involved in the mass murders of hundreds of thousands of other people. Further, just because someone carries out an act in the “name” of one religion or another, does not mean that they are accurately representing their religion.
In fact, none of the three major religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) condone murder in their scriptures. So anyone committing such an act is not really following their professed religion – they’re simply using that religion as a scapegoat for their immoral and unethical behaviors (which they would likely commit regardless).
Finally, these murderous behaviors also commonly occur without of any religious elements or undertones at all. One need only look at drug and gang activity as well as racism for examples of such. The fact is that when humans murder each other, religion is simply a handy excuse to do so and is not in fact the actual ’cause’ of murder.