"Christians should not be afraid of the phrase “social justice.” It was coined, I believe, by a Jesuit priest in the 19th century, if I got my history right. But we have to remember that for a Christian, a just society is one that broadly conforms to what God says is true and that we can never live in a socially just society that goes against what God says in his word about what is real and what isn't.
So, to be specific, a socially just society is not a society in which we have abortion. As Christians, I think we have to be careful that when we fight against social injustice as we should in the case of racism and other forms of discrimination like that, we have to be careful to realize that our ultimate standard of justice is biblical, not secular, and that there can be times when what strikes us is just will strike secular social justice warriors as unjust. And that’s the moment when they turn on us and not as opponents who happened to be wrong, but as enemies who have to be eliminated."
- Rod Dreher
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