Monday, December 01, 2003
(8:05 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Social Justice Can Suck It
Jared wrote an interesting post about the attitude parodied in my title. I have a question in response: granted that it should be blindingly obvious that the gospel is really about social justice, what do we do if people refuse to view their society as unjust? You can hardly throw a bowling ball in an evangelical church without hitting someone who thinks that the American cocktail of capitalism and democracy is the very model of justice. People get what they deserve (and even though an evangelical might not add this, I'll add, "damn it"), and everyone has a chance to succeed. Our rulers are selected by popular vote (usually), and any citizen can run for office if he or she so chooses. The only changes that need to be made are incremental, and by an impressive sleight of hand, poverty is blamed on the very government intervention that aims to "fix" this perfect society. In such a situation, why not just focus on perfecting oneself through a healthy dose of God every week? What possible sense does it make to talk about social sin when we live in a nation that is "founded on Christian principles"?
