The difficulty with social justice is that it appears to be virtuous and it sounds ‘Christian’ when it’s being employed by Christian leaders. However, social justice is one of the most devious and destructive movements the Church has faced
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“Whenever you hear this mantra, I hope you remember Proverbs 18:17: “The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.”
― Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
― Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
“During the first day of orientation, an instructor from the general studies department asked a group of freshmen and transfer students if any of us had read and liked Jane Austen. I raised my hand eagerly, and said in my still somewhat broken English that I found her characters—created two centuries earlier—to be instantly relatable. “Wrong,” the instructor said. “Those books promote female oppression, racism, colonialism, and white supremacy.”
― While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
― While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
“Dolphins are animals of good omen. It made me happy to have them swimming around the canoe, and though my hands had begun to bleed from the chafing of the paddle, just watching them made me forget the pain. I was very lonely before they appeared, but now I felt that I had friends with me and did not feel the same.”
― Island of the Blue Dolphins
― Island of the Blue Dolphins
“There are two competing worldviews in this current cultural moment. One is the Critical Social Justice view—which assumes that the world is divided between the oppressors and the oppressed (white, heterosexual males are generally viewed as “the oppressor”).3 The other is what I will refer to in these pages as the biblical justice view in order to avoid what I accuse the social-justice crowd of doing, which is immediately casting its opponents as being opposed to justice.”
― Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
― Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe
“Success depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.”
― Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That's Lost its Mind
― Swimming Against the Current: Fighting for Common Sense in a World That's Lost its Mind
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