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Recalling the conversation a few weeks back, the term “social justice” is all too often a euphemism that hides statist intentions as the cure for the vexing cultural problems facing us. Rather than fostering self-reliance, self-respect, self-control, and the other virtues necessary for independence, the programs and prescriptions that ostensibly cure the ills in fact erode any possibility of independence and success. Poverty — both material and and spiritual — is not at its foundation an economic issue. It’s a relational issue and the healing of poverty begins first by correcting one’s relationship to God and secondly to the neighbor.
View this video of Star Parker, a women who realized this and turned her life around:
I didn’t choose this video because Parker is black, or that poverty only affects the inner cities. I choose it because Parker strips away the veneer of false compassion and shows us how enslaving it really is. There is plenty of poverty elsewhere, call it a poverty of spirit, and it afflicts many of us Orthodox too.
Do you think the enslavement does not bind us? Think again. Did you know, for example, that abortion rates among the Orthodox are higher than the national average?
Read what John Couretas wrote a while back in A patriarch who ‘generally speaking, respects human life’: