by linda » Mon May 21, 2018 1:31 pm
Hmm. I read the apparently offending post and a passel of the comments. If I'm not wrong, and I surely could be, the anti social justice folks are not anti justice at all. Or anti taking care of the widows and orphans, etc. They are opposed to the words "social justice" being equated not with equality for all, for not letting babies starve, and all those other GOOD things it might mean but rather having become a code word or words for pro abortion, pro gay marriage, and pro asset and income redistribution. In that sense, just as many see "Christian conservative" as some sort of next to Hitler person, many see "social justice warrior" as Marxist leftwing subterfuge.
But it is a Baptist fight, and we have finally and I suspect forever left that fold. We recently moved and fully figured to be Baptist again. You would think that with around 15 churches to pick we would have found one and settled in. But either we would literally have to cross running creeks and mud bogs, or sign on to young earth creationism, or take part in the Calvinist/Traditionalist stink, or pick some form of super fundamentalism.
We gave up. With the UMC in a turmoil tizzy at very minimum until February of 2019 we decided to just move our membership to the flavor of Wesleyan we were in the previous locale. Our beliefs have changed a bit, and we just fit better where the purpose of all this God created is to show His love and where He actively seeks the salvation of all than where there is constant in fighting and backbiting in a who is "more God's favorite than who" arrangement.
But I grew up in a place where the Methodist (pre UMC) church and SBC church both saw it that way, and worked together to see the community right with God. But not now. And that is fine. Don't think I'm any longer a misfit Baptist with Wesleyan leanings, but a conservative Wesleyan through and through.
Linda