Posts Tagged ‘Oppressed’

Oct 30 2008

Citizen Commentary

A fraternity brother of mine made a great comment in response to OFB’s republished article I did on Politics and Theology.  It was both insightful and helpful in clarifying my intent, so I want to post that short conversation here.  Thanks for the challenge, Chris!  These are the kinds of conversations I live for…

Chris:

You had to know I was going to post on this :)

“Both liberals and conservatives have forgotten that it is not primarily the government that should care for widows and orphans, but the church (James 1:27, and over 40 other verses).”

Expand on this.

Why is this the case? Do these verses make it so? Why shouldn’t society (and by that I mean all of society, not just Christians) be held accountable for the plight of its poor and oppressed? Call me a socialist (because I might be :) ), but the church is incapable of caring for all widows, ophans, homeless, starving, etc. Regardless of whose job the Bible says it should be, it is our responsibility (as a society/government) to do so. I find it hard to believe that you believe that the government (being able to) should not step in and care for the oppressed/unfortunate. I understand the importance of adherence to scripture by Christians, but a call to inaction by scripture? Really? Should compassion be completely ignored because it is separate from the church? Thoughts?

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