You will find each of these items discussed in this series of articles.
- The social justice movement sees people in terms of groups rather than individuals. By contrast, God sees every individual’s heart and invites everyone to follow him. The decision to do so must be an individual’s alone.
- The social justice movement is racist and sexist; it evaluates people based on external traits. God’s sees people’s hearts; He looks beyond external characteristics.
- The social justice narrative does not evaluate history objectively, but according to the assumption that history’s story is one of oppressors mistreating victims and victims seeking to overthrow oppressors. This stands in stark contrast to the biblical ideal that all people are created in God’s image and are of equal value and worth.
- Advocates of the social justice movement and Black Lives Matter show partiality and favoritism in their dealings with people. In the Bible, these are condemned.
- The social justice movement seeks to blame people living today for their ancestors’ sins or supposed sins, and it seeks to “recompense” people living today whose ancestors were allegedly mistreated. While the sins of one’s ancestors can have an impact on future generations, God does not hold people personally accountable for their forebears sins. Nor do we see in Scripture that restitution is offered to the descendants of people who were wronged.
- The social justice “gospel” divides; the biblical gospel unites.
- SJWs ignore all the progress Americans have made in recent decades in the area of race relations. Therefore, to the SJWs, whites are guilty and blacks and other minorities are victims. From a biblical perspective, this amounts to (or it at least it comes close to) hating one’s enemies rather than loving them, and refusing to extend forgiveness for offenses or perceived offenses.
- Black Lives Matter activists and social justice advocates are all too willing to bury the true stories of black men and women who overcame extreme obstacles and challenges. We see nothing like this in Scripture, where history is told fully, showcasing both negative and positive elements, hardships as well as triumphs.
- The social justice movement is fueled by emotions over facts. This is contrary to the biblical gospel, which involves emotions but consistently is fact-driven.
- Riding the crest of the emotional wave of the social justice movement exacerbates the problems at hand, paving the way for additional misunderstandings, upheaval, and disruption. These stand contrary to 1 Timothy 2:1-4, which upholds the importance of societal order for the sake of effectively spreading the gospel.
- Black Lives Matter, which is a part of the social justice movement, promotes ideas that are thoroughly unbiblical and un-Christian.
- The social justice narrative turns the definition of authentic justice on its head.
- Social justice advocates tempt those they deem as victims to covet and steal.
- Social justice crusaders offer recommendations that call for government redistribution of wealth—an unbiblical proposition.
- The social justice “gospel” eliminates generosity and charity. How? A social justice “utopia” is a world in which the government is its citizens’ provider. This, too, is an unbiblical proposition.
- The social justice narrative disparages everyone by demeaning people as either victims or oppressors. With regard both characterizations, it overlooks all evidence to the contrary.
- Despite its claims, the social justice movement isn’t interested—at all—in reconciliation or forgiveness. Rather, it seeks to keep in a perpetual state of penitence members of the class it assumes to have been oppressive throughout history. This ignores historical facts, defies the demands of the biblical gospel, and is oppressive in itself.
Copyright © 2020 by B. Nathaniel Sullivan. All rights reserved.
top image credit: Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash