The bible is for social justice, but it also has segments regarding now unacceptable ideas, like slavery. I don't think that the "Ferguson protester liberal" would approve of that. However, it does have some ideals that do transcend eras and culture, and I see it as a product of its time. To completely discredit it for practices that are unacceptable nowadays is putting us at a loss.
It's actually really interesting how some modern ideas were present in ancient times.
James 2:2-6
For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man.
Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?1 Timothy 5:18 ESV
For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain,” and,
“The laborer deserves his wages.”Exodus 5:9 ESV
Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”
Jesus never said one word endorsing coercion and stealing. He said that you should help other people (poor, disabled, etc.) if you wanted to, the ultimate choice is up to you, a criminal wearing red forcing you to "do good" at gunpoint has nothing to do with the bible.
Ayn Rand wrote:Is there any difference between the encyclical’s philosophy and communism? I am perfectly willing, on this matter, to take the word of an eminent Catholic authority. Under the headline: “Encyclical Termed Rebuff to Marxism,” The New York Times of March 31, 1967, reports: “The Rev. John Courtney Murray, the prominent Jesuit theologian, described Pope Paul’s newest encyclical yesterday as ‘the church’s definitive answer to Marxism.’ . . . ‘The Marxists have proposed one way, and in pursuing their program they rely on man alone,’ Father Murray said. `Now Pope Paul VI has issued a detailed plan to accomplish the same goal on the basis of true humanism—humanism that recognizes man’s religious nature.’”
Rand's theories that religion implicitly endorsed socialism were spot on. How the GOP manages to reconcile economic Darwinism and religion has always perplexed me.
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Heidi Klum. Sadly, she's no longer a 10.
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