Reaching tentacles of the Social Justice movement

[coadie]

The culture is moving us to enforce social justice. How much do conservative Christians know about the various forms of the movement?

Formerly the Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Van Jones is a long time self-proclaimed communist. His endeavor was to halt the consumption of energy by prosperous folks and taxing it to send money to the have nots. He wanted to use the environmental movement to pressure the social justice agenda.

Glenn Beck exposes it.

According to Psalm 89.14: “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.” But Fox News pundit Glenn Beck recently implored his viewers to leave their congregations if their churches champion social or economic justice, adding that the terms are nefarious code words.

“I’m begging you .. your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them are going to come under the ropes here in probably the next year,” Beck said. “I beg you look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.”

He noted later on his television show that Communists and Nazis also flew the flag of social justice.

Of course the liberals on this site despise Glenn Beck because he exposes a lot of pretention.

Social and economic justice are not charity.

Rick Warren says we need to promote social justice to be more relevant. His seeker friendly model uses social justice to attract audience.

Social justice is behiind socialized medicine. Social justice thinking is behind the calling out people that oppose Mosques certain places and gay marriage as people being bigots or racist.

The scripture has great coverage of charity.

Who is behind this movement? How does it fit into the endtimes?

[vrblackwell]

Social justice is a code word which means take from those who have worked hard and give it to those who are unwilling to work hard.

[Aquila]

We need to be careful not to paint with a broad brush here. Remember, social justice movements brought us women's rights to work and vote, vanquished child labor, brought us safety standards in the work place, brought us liveable wages, and most importantly... the weekend. lol

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Aquila

We need to be careful not to paint with a broad brush here. Remember, social justice movements brought us women's rights to work and vote, vanquished child labor, brought us safety standards in the work place, brought us liveable wages, and most importantly... the weekend. lol

Not true. It was legislation .

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Aquila

We need to be careful not to paint with a broad brush here. Remember, social justice movements brought us women's rights to work and vote, vanquished child labor, brought us safety standards in the work place, brought us liveable wages, and most importantly... the weekend. lol

Need to get your stories straight. Unions claim credit for the same list. Unions are not the social justice movement at all.
The unions and the social justice folks have the same enemies?

[Maximilian]

While I disagree with movements that are Christian-based but solely driven by social justice, there's no denying the reality of adequate theology behind "defending the poor, disenfranchised, widows, orphans, powerless," etc. Anyone who says otherwise needs to do some reading.

If Glen Beck is noticing many of his opponents use social justice to combat some of the Republican/Conservative ideas, then he needn't take on those who believe in social justice, stick with taking on their ideas and explain why they won't work. Beck telling people to run from churches that believe in being involved in social justice is more sickening to me. I know he wouldn't like the someone putting a theological metric to his LDS faith.

Coadie, you told Aquila it was legislation. That's silly. Legislation doesn't create itself, draft itself, get enough public support to be important all on it's own.

[coadie]

Originally Posted by Maximilian

While I disagree with movements that are Christian-based but solely driven by social justice, there's no denying the reality of adequate theology behind "defending the poor, disenfranchised, widows, orphans, powerless," etc. Anyone who says otherwise needs to do some reading.

If Glen Beck is noticing many of his opponents use social justice to combat some of the Republican/Conservative ideas, then he needn't take on those who believe in social justice, stick with taking on their ideas and explain why they won't work. Beck telling people to run from churches that believe in being involved in social justice is more sickening to me. I know he wouldn't like the someone putting a theological metric to his LDS faith.

Coadie, you told Aquila it was legislation. That's silly. Legislation doesn't create itself, draft itself, get enough public support to be important all on it's own.

You mentioned charity. That is different than social justice.

By the way, I understand legislation. I have also read the constitution. We are endowed by the Creator the right to life liberty and pursuit of happiness.

It doesn't say right to an equal share of prosperity.
Actually Mormoms are very capitalistic. They are distinctly against socialism.

[whoami]

Originally Posted by coadie

Actually Mormoms are very capitalistic. They are distinctly against socialism.

Modern Mormons might be, but their founders certainly weren't. lol

[commonsense]

Originally Posted by vrblackwell

Social justice is a code word which means take from those who have worked hard and give it to those who are unwilling to work hard.

I agree.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by coadie

Not true. It was legislation .

Coadie... I'm not big on Unions... but I am in one and I know the history of labor laws. If not for those fighting for social justice in this area you're kids would still be working in sweat shops. So get real.