When one says that they are Pro-Life they are saying, positively, that they are for the birth of every baby regardless of the circumstances. Well, maybe not all circumstances such as in the case of rape. This is the glitch the few of us consider or speak of because it challenges, logically, the consistency of our pro-life position. But that is for another day.
What I want to pose is the flip side of Pro-Life which is anti death. Right? To be pro life is to be against the death of children in the womb.
We are pro life because we believe that killing babies in the womb is sinful but, in another word of common parlance - an act of injustice. So, to be pro life is to believe in the justice of life and also to believe and fight against the injustice of the taking of life. This is all social justice!
Some would argue that to be pro life is a biblical position not a social one. But we cant have society without people and therefore actions for the good of any person is, in effect, social in nature. The Bible is a book - a redemptive historical book of the theological activities of God bringing the justice of heaven into the realm of life and society.
Therefore, no Christian can argue against social justice anymore than we can argue against theology. In other words, there is some theology that I don't like or approve of but I am not going to say that theology as a discipline is wrong. In like manner, I may disagree with some versions of social justice but I cannot throw out the idea, concept, reality and biblical need for social justice.
Here is the problem. Those who oppose the idea of social justice do so because it inherently opposes the status quo notion of authority and status in life. Social justice only challenges those who are inhibiters of it. It does not challenge those who are looking for it.
So, to maintain the assigned status that has been given to minorities in this country, social justice must be made situated as contrary to God and the Bible. Why, because it disrupts an unbiblically constructed society that still holds on to the vestiges of superiority and inferiority of cultures. This is true, both, in the society of this country and the society of some churches.
Every believer must be committed to idea of social justice and practice it, in order to be authentic and genuine disciple of Jesus. We cannot fight for the justice of pro-life without fighting against, at the same time and with the same tenacity, unjust death.
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