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Podcast: Should We Put Adjectives in Front of "Justice"? Or Is Justice Simply Justice?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If we put adjectives such as "economic" or "racial" in front of the word "Justice," are we in essence buying into critical theory? Isn't justice simply justice?

That's the first question John Stonestreet and Shane Morris tackle on this edition of the BreakPoint podcast.  John and Shane also tackle how we engage gracefully on social media (hint: Check out the book of Proverbs). And what about fathers when it comes to abortion--their needs and especially their responsibilities?

Finally, how should a truly Christian perspective on eternity affect and shape our worldview?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone Street in our new

0:06.4

Q&A edition answering the questions we get from you, our readers and listeners. John, I want to know

0:11.8

something. What's the most ridiculous question you've ever received in this job? Oh, I think the most

0:17.5

ridiculous question. I mean, that's, it probably came from you somewhere down the line, Shane as an employee. No, I'm just kidding. No, I think the most ridiculous question. I mean, that's, it probably came from you somewhere down the line as an employee.

0:23.0

No, I'm just kidding. No, I think the most ridiculous line. I always think of the guy after we did something on the Charlottesville deal.

0:31.7

Right. That happened a couple years ago. And we said something about the alt-right and, you know, described who they were and why,

0:40.0

you know, it's a non-Christian worldview and so on. And we, I actually got a comment by somebody who

0:46.3

said, I've been around the alt-right for years. I've only met three Nazis. And that was his,

0:50.6

that was his defense of the alt-right. And of course, my response was, how many Nazis do you have to meet before it's a bad movement?

0:56.6

What's your Nazi quota? What's the maximum number of Nazis per million that you can have? beats what I, that beats what I got this week. I just wanted to throw this one out there. Someone asked,

1:11.2

in my call for questions for this program, someone asked, would you rather fight 100 duck size

1:17.1

horses or one horse size duck? Wow. Let's get to a real question here. We got a question here from a reader

1:27.4

who, who says, I believe we should never put an adjective in front of the word justice because it's unnecessary. There's only justice and injustice. When we say racial justice or social justice, we start leaning into favoring someone or some group subjectively to try to even

1:46.7

the playing field. That idea just plays into critical theory because it forces us to view people as

1:51.0

either oppressors or oppressed. Thoughts? Well, it's a good question. There's no doubt that almost all of

1:57.6

our conversations about justice are hard to have anymore because it's the conclusion

2:02.4

has already been assumed depending on which group you're a part of whether you're part of the

2:07.5

oppressor or the oppressed group which means kind of the the whole critical theory thing has

2:11.8

overtaken the conversation it's not unlike when i speak to students about marriage. I go back to studies from

2:19.1

like 2008, 2009. And I tell them that the reason is, is because after that, almost all studies

2:26.4

have been hijacked, you know, by the LGBT movement and the necessity of being politically correct on those things and so on. So if you go back

2:36.8

before critical theory, you will find the word justice specifically applied to specific situations,

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