tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post55009285367852423..comments2024-01-24T10:39:27.668-05:00Comments on Coming Untrue: The Institutional FixDr. S. L. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06303707167715370504noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5596708332568087278.post-36704527921743709152015-10-17T08:34:16.879-04:002015-10-17T08:34:16.879-04:00What you're talking about, Tom, is also nicely...What you're talking about, Tom, is also nicely captured by the current phrase, "Social Justice." For while many people mistake "Social Justice" for real justice, it's not. <br /><br />Real justice means everybody gets treated fairly. In contrast, the "social" part of "Social Justice" means that instead of any one person being responsible to make justice happen, government is to be forced to obey SJ wishes, and then government itself is to institutionalize the SJ agenda and to enforce SJ preferences on everyone. And if this creates actual injustice for some, well, the SJ crowd is not concerned about that. They're not about real justice, just about getting society shaped the way they want it. They're drunk with political ambition and indifferent to their personal moral failings. <br /><br />This does not mean that Christians shouldn't vote, or shouldn't join social-help efforts. But it does mean they must not delude themselves that an SJ push for some concept of the "good society" can be substituted for their personal duty to obey Christ.<br /><br />As Christians, we won't have a truly just society until the King of that society reigns over the whole world. Until then, injustices will happen, and we must fight them wherever we find them...but not so that some SJ utopia will follow, but because justice is what the King asks of us personally.Immanuel Canhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11580529966007662214noreply@blogger.com