It seems that most in this movement are not motivated by the love of the poor and marginalized but rather by hatred of the elite and well off.
I don’t have to tell you that they are not the same, but hey, here I am.
If you cared for the outcasts of society, you would focus on them, write laws for them, put on benefits for them, and work your fingers to the bone for them, but that’s clearly not what is happening. Instead, the mob has decided to attack the other members of society.
Instead of helping those who need it the most, they choose to tear down those who could aptly be named “The Others.” All the while fueling their minds on a steady diet of baseless propaganda.
In a lot of ways, it is my generation to blame. The majority of participants in this movement are vain 18-25-year-olds who want to feel as though they’re doing something good for society. Not that they are doing any actual good for society, but they instead want the postable appearance of doing something good for society. As doing legitimate good rarely lends itself to a good photo opp. We couldn’t care less about the ramifications of our actions.
We were made highly susceptible to radicalization through our weak education system, which made us happy to suck down the propaganda as if it were cold water on a hot day. Once possessed with a half-baked, well-propagated ideology, and charged with pent-up rebellious angst due to the erosion of rules within the home and school. The kids, having the mind of a rebel, the desire to appear virtuous, and nothing in their natural environment to rebel against, took to the streets to attack the air.
They’re attacking air not because there’s nothing to protest but because they don’t know what they are protesting. So, like at any dance that has ever taken place, the cupid shuffle comes on; they make their way to the dance floor to make the same motions like everyone else. Except they’re all tone deaf and can’t keep the rhythm, they have no ear for social reform. So they end up missing all the steps and making fools out of themselves.
There is a song playing. There is something to protest, but none of them can hear its notes, and as a result, they twirl around, screaming and kicking aimlessly into the sky. Achieving nothing and helping no one.
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Its great to encounter your posts again, Mosley.
You’ve made some great points on the current social justice movement we have in our country. I for one, as a Christian, believe in justice for all. However, with these recent protests and riots, it seems as though our generation is fighting injustice (abuse of authority, murder, and voluntary manslaughter) with injustice (subjugation of authorities, breaking egalitarian laws, and stealing/destroying local properties). I think that human lives are worth more than the value of properties, though, in the long-run other human lives are hurt in the process of “revolution.”
As you said quite nicely, “[…] most in this movement are not motivated by the love of the poor and marginalized but rather by hatred of the elite and well off.” Some people justify the current state of the movement by using quotes from MLK Jr. on how ‘it is justified to break certain laws that are unjust themselves.’ (My paraphrase) I stand to reason that the best way to define justice and injustice is directly from biblical revelation. If we rely on a social construct of justice (as a handful of those in our generation do), then we will never understand justice and injustice properly. Relying on biblical revelation has to be how MLK Jr. was able to differentiate between “just” government laws and “unjust” government laws.
Our public education system does need reform, especially in the subjects of the natural sciences and history. I have often heard students not know about certain things, and it irks me very much. These things have to be on the state of modern Evolutionary Theory (that Darwin’s ideas are outdated because of the “Cambrian explosion”) and the detriment of certain ideologies in the world (Marxist-Leninism in Cuba, China, and Russia and the societal detriment of anarchistic revolutions). I would argue that even the American Revolution was an “unChristian” event since it sought out freedom via rebellion–but I digress.
I think a perfect elaboration on this important evangelical discussion is Biola’s “The Duologue: Social Justice and the Gospel.” I would say that I prefer a little more of Williams’ thinking.
Thanks for the kind words! I agree that the movement won’t reach justice propper without a line by which they can measure their progress by, as they have obliterated all sense for moral realism through the abysmal education system. I’m not sure that all rebellions are unChristian but I would agree that a great deal of the rebellions through history have been unChristian even if they had Christian leaders and participants. Nevertheless, I hope this movement isn’t as counterproductive as I am anticipating it will be.
It’s a kind of sad state of affairs for sure. Maybe we focus on who we can reach at these times…..
I agree change happens on the individual level, not by way of the collective mob.
Pointed but I think pretty accurate. It’s been difficult to see so many in the church get pulled into this movement. The compassion espoused maps to a certain extent onto Christianity especially for the disenfranchised. But sadly, I think we’re also going to swallow the pill of all the detrimental effects of this movement. Lack of forgiveness, shallow kindness that doesn’t actually effect anything for others, and more divisions in our communities than there had to be. I’ve heard the anecdotal stories from black friends and their bad experiences with cops. There’s certainly stats that support the claims. I just worry about the blow torch method as compared to using a scalpel.
Yes, it’s as if they’re trying to lobotomize the system that needs a proper neurosurgeon’s touch.