"Social justice" means not that I contribute my wealth to the needy which all religions agree is laudable, but that I force you to contribute your wealth to the needy and that your contribution must go to the needy that I choose in the manner that I choose you to do it, and by the way, since I'm the one who forced you to do it, I get the recognition for your contribution as if it were mine and therefore become revered and powerful and wealthy. This is a distortion of religious teaching. When I hear a homily that is not telling me how to improve myself but instead is telling me how society should be ordered I construe this not to be Christian teaching but political discourse and I avoid further contact with that preacher.
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