Debunking Liberal Social Justice from the Bible

Folks,

Yesterday's daily scripture readings and today's are noteworthy in debunking the liberal propaganda of social justice that has infected the Church, the Body of Christ, like a terminal cancer that won't go away until the offending members are cut off and cast away exactly as described in John 15:2 and Romans 11:21-22.

Yesterday's Gospel reading was about the story of the ten virgins awaiting the bridegroom as recorded in Matthew 25:1-15. Five wise virgins brought enough oil with them for their lamps and five foolish ones did not. The bridegroom was late in coming and the lamps of all ten had dimmed. At the sound of the imminent arrival of the bridegroom in the dark of the night, the five wise ones trimmed their lamps and were prepared. The five foolish ones who lacked foresight did what any liberal would tell them to do and preyed upon the charity of the five wise virgins for the oil that the foolish ones failed to bring for themselves. Of course the five wise virgins said no, because their duty to the bridegroom came before any false sense of charity. So the foolish virgins went out into the market place to purchase oil from the merchants, but by the time they returned, the bridegroom had already arrived and the five wise virgins had accompanied him into the wedding feast. The door was shut, but the foolish virgins begged to be let in. They were denied. The bridegroom said exactly the opposite of what a liberal thinks is charity: "Amen, I say to you, I do not know you."

Today's Gospel reading was about the three servants and the talents entrusted to them as recorded in Matthew 25:14-30. We all know this story. A man going on a long journey entrusted his possessions to his servants. To one he gave five talents who invested the sum and earned a profit of five more talents. To another he gave two talents who likewise invested the sum and earned a profit of two more talents. To the last he gave one talent who did what any profit-hating liberal would tell him to do: he buried the money. The master on returning commended the actions of the first two "profit-hungry" servants. But the third exclaimed that he feared his master and so took no risk, instead burying his talent for safe keeping. How like liberalism: take no risk unless 100% safety is assured 100% of the time. The master, however, did not agree with this fallacious point of view and did what any good capitalist would do: he fired the worthless servant and gave his meager talent to the most "profit-hungry" servant - the one who was willing to risk everything. We might exclaim how uncharitable of the master to do this. But his action was actually most charitable. He let the worthless servant reap the consequences of his actions. Doing what liberalism tells us to do - redistribute wealth from the first two servants to the third - would keep the worthless servant in bondage to his fear and make him dependent - even addicted - on the hard work of others.

It is high time we see these parables as they are and not as they are constantly being re-interpreted by the liberal cancer that infects the Church today. It is time to destroy the false gospel of social justice and cast its proponents into outer darkness where they belong. That's what happened to the five foolish virgins and the worthless servant given one talent. As St. Paul wrote in 2nd Thessalonians 3:10:

In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat.

Work or starve: that's the choice. No false pretense of charity can any longer be afforded.