Tweets - January 3rd - Social Justice

In response to article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/03/christianitys-long-history-in-fighting-for-social-justice

Martin Luther King Jr. and Oscar Romero are hand-made examples of what historically happens to people with peaceful dispositions who are violently challenged yet still stand toward social justice and against oppressive laws (divine or otherwise).

But I doubt this can be called "Christianity's history" as these men were exceptions in the Church (for the last 1800 years) and not the rule of the church (Catholic or otherwise - as is evident by the looks of this world, for centuries now).

Christian scriptures (or rather its later authors) redacted and censored the revolutionary nature and tradition of the early church - hence, we now have a "Gospel of Luke", "Acts", "Timothy", "Titus", "Peter", and additions to 1 Corinthians.

As I've seen in regards to the Church, social justice is often synonymous with charity - as genuine efforts are rarely (if ever) made to eliminate the need for charity in the first place.

This is a world of potential and plenty; so why charity? Is this the best that humanity can come up with? Is this the best idea the laws of some socially ignorant and unjust god has to offer?

Not even those wealthy Christian preachers will be giving up their mansions, private jets, or yachts for the sake of justice - and certainly not for some kingdom they know their eyes will never see.

I believe what they see, and they have been commanded by fears and they've followed after the passions of their hearts, carrying along with them the doctrines of oppression and injustice and the idols of their own exaltation (no one lifts you up like you lift up yourself).

Girl, they whooped Paul's ass everywhere he went. Do you really think he went around preaching prosperity and wealth, encouraging submission to merciless laws?!? As unChristlike as he was (with his sex laws and controlling nature), he actually did preach the Gospel of Liberty.

"Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent adrift at sea. I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, dangers among false brothers; I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches. Who is weak without my being weak? If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness." ~ 2 Corinthians 11:24-30