Oppressed And Oppressor - 4

Society and many churches today have bought in to the philosophy of social justice as part of Christianity. The basic tenets of social justice notice that there are inequalities in societies, but the proposed solution to these inequities is equity of outcome, not equality of opportunity. So, social justice warriors use immutable human characteristics such as sex, skin color, and nationality as metrics to judge one group over another, rather than characteristics people can change like hard work and competence.

Many social justice proponents cloak their views in religious terms, and claim that Jesus came to resolve every possible societal inequality you can think of. They might even say that Jesus came to tell us to bring the rich down and bring the poor up so that everybody is financially the same.

One of the hallmarks of the modern social justice movement is to divide everybody into 1 of 2 categories: you are either an oppressed victim; or you are an oppressing victimizer; and nothing in between. According to the movement, we can tell which category you fall into by your skin color, your nationality, your sex, your sexual preferences, etc., not by how you act or think or work.

Did Jesus really teach this sort of thing? This teaching looks into the Gospels to answer this question and see how Jesus dealt with the oppressed and with oppressors. This teaching found 2 consecutive stories that shed light on this subject, the story of blind Bartimaeus and the story of Zacchaeus, the tax collector. What really was the attitude of Jesus toward oppressed and oppressor? Did Jesus lecture the oppressed and tell them to change their ways? Did Jesus bring judgement done on the oppressor? Did Jesus make the oppressor lift up the oppressed?

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