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Why Do Christians Resist the Idea of “Social Justice”? A Theological Question

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Or as you said "God restores what was damaged".
Yes that is the message. God does not want to punish us, He wants to redeem and restore. That is why God is good and they talk about the good news.
 
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The antebellum South was built on man’s justice — hierarchy, punishment, control, and a system that protected the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable. Even after the Civil War ended, that worldview didn’t disappear. It went underground, reshaped itself, and kept influencing how people think about authority, rights, and justice. That’s why the same patterns still show up today. God’s justice is completely different. God restores what was damaged, lifts the broken, and brings people back to life. Man’s justice punishes and maintains order; God’s justice heals and makes things right at the root.
The most certain predictor of a future atrocity is a past atrocity that was never repented. The south has never repented of slavery.
 
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The Gospel the worldly and the priests don't want to hear. They and what they value, be it goods or power, becomes irrelevant.
Humility is what happens when the Gospel makes everything the world values irrelevant. Easy for the poor, difficult for the rich and well to do.
 
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Many issues are complex and there is room for discussion and disagreement. Clean air and clean water come down to money or health.

I beg you, pay attention to legislation affecting them and what is happening at the EPA.
 
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Anyone remember the Cuyahoga River catching on fire?
For the first time in a century, they’re spending over $100 million to clean up the damage people have done to the Cuyahoga River and restore it as a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem. For decades, rivers were treated like open sewers. I remember going to a beach on Lake Erie east of Cleveland where an actual sewer pipe was dumping wastewater right next to the swimming area.

A city worker once told me that some people still connect raw sewage into storm‑drain systems, and it’s extremely difficult to trace where those illegal hookups come from. That’s part of why the system gets overwhelmed when it rains.

Now my sewer bill is over $60 a month because they’re upgrading the infrastructure, and that kind of work is expensive. A friend of mine even operated one of the tunneling machines they used to build drainage tunnels to relieve flooding when Lake Erie’s water level was high. So when they say we’re “not paying for the cleanup,” my monthly bill tells a different story. The environmental restoration might be funded separately, but the infrastructure that keeps sewage out of the river is definitely being paid for by the people who live here.
 
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