I can’t even verbalize how upsetting and humbling it was to be faced with both Scriptural and statistical evidence that the ideas and policies I was promoting in the name of compassion were actually promoting human suffering. But that humbling experience was a really crucial part of my repentance process, because it forced me to reckon with why this false ideology appealed to me in the first place.
I talk a lot about the money and power motives that corrupt even well-intended activism over on Leaving Groupthink, Inc. But there’s also a spiritual dimension to this ideology that we need to consider if we truly want to love God and love others.
By selectively ignoring inconvenient truths about human nature and objective reality, and quietly inserting self-serving contemporary definitions and understandings into Jesus’ teachings (or rejecting Him outright), the social justish pseudo-gospel pretends that lefty activism is the path to liberation instead of the cross.
And by preying on well-meaning sinners’ desire to feel like good people while doing bad things, the social justish pseudo-gospel tricks people into believing that a self-serving ideology can meet our moral needs and satisfy our longing for a better world.
But an ideology that alternately denies, excuses, or glorifies sin cannot deliver us from the suffering and injustice that is caused by sin. No human political system or ideology can solve all of our problems, but thankfully, God can.
Relevant recommended reads:
When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett & Brian Fikkert
Creation and Christian Ethics by Dennis P. Hollinger
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