Defining ‘Social Justice’
What is Social Justice?
It is a nice sounding phrase. No one is against justice, well, not very many anyway. To be against justice is to be some kind of evil monster, bent on terror in the night, mischief and anarchy.
Politicians, when face with the demand for social justice, bow and pander, groveling to the demands as though they had been whipped into line by the higher power of the law. It is the phrase that brings everyone to attention, but listen up… It should strike terror into us rather than awe.
Here’s why!
My mother instilled into me, at an early age, a love for words and for reading them. I read books, magazines, cereal boxes, toothpaste tubes, anything I could get my hands on. By the time I was 15 I had read the entire works of John Calvin, Christopher Ness, St. Augustine and of course Mark Twain.
At age 17 I left town for a small Bible College in San Antonio Texas. The news in that day was all about Russia and its tank invasion of Poland. Communism was the chief enemy of freedom in those days and I knew little about it. So, I needed to read…
I found a copy of the Communist Manifesto at a military library nearby and I read. As I read, I understood that this was not just philosophy or politics, it was the opposite of my Judeo-Christian world view. This, high sounding presentation of words justified this invasion and the violation of individual rights in the name of the greater good of governments rule. Here was the justification for Stalin’s slaughter of millions of people in establishing his power in the name of ‘Social justice.’
So, from that backdrop we enter the 21st century and discover a new and awkward cry for social justice. But now it is not Russia consolidating power in Europe, it is groups of professors and college students, with a touch or rebels and scoundrels rioting in our streets and demanding social justice.
