Social Justice
I came across a Facebook friend’s post which declared “Right-wing commentator: Poor people voting is ‘un-American’” Since the liberals who were commenting on the story appeared to completely miss the point that the commentator was getting at, I decided to help them out: Oppression should be opposed regardless of who the oppressors are or who [...]
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In a presentation sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, Jay Richards presents the major themes from his excellent book, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem. In his book, Jay explores the question of why Christians should care about economics and why he believes capitalism is the best economic system [...]
A while ago I Tweeted: Are tax cuts for “millionaires” a good idea? Sure they are. I’ve never gotten a job from someone on welfare. To which a friend of mine responded: Ebenezer Scrooge: Why are these people out here? Wearing rags, eating scraps! Why aren’t they in poorhouses…? Ghost of Christmas Present: Have you [...]
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I’ve been reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov on the way to work in the mornings and this passage from the first book really struck me as an excellent depiction of socialism and why it is embraced by a secular society. Emphesis mine. The path Alyosha chose was a path going in the opposite direction, [...]
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