According to Glenn Beck “Social Justice” and “Economic Justice” are code words for communists, socialists, and Nazis. He warns his listeners to beware of churches and religious leaders who dare to talk about such things. Here is a part of his dialogue…
“I’m begging you, your right to religion and freedom to exercise religion and read all of the passages of the Bible as you want to read them and as your church wants to preach them . . . are going to come under the ropes in the next year. If it lasts that long it will be the next year. I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!”
Well, if he is right, then that would make me a Nazi. Not only me, but I would have good company with Jesus who started using justice as a code word. Take a look at Luke 11:42 and Matthew 23:23. Jesus not only talks about justice, but he curses those who neglect justice, which he calls a “weightier matter” to other religious activities.
If I am going to be slandered, I am okay with it if it is in following Christ. “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others” (Matthew 23:23).
Drew G. I. Hart 