I have been seeing alot of grumbling about Christians and complaining that Christian moral activism is returning.
Name a single part of social justice/woke culture that did not result from what Christians were warning yall about.
I guess some lessons will never be learned though. Society has just gone too far down the path of liberalism 🤷♂️
Oh don't worry about the down vote, I figured OP has just tagged everyone who actually tried to call him on his bluff.
One idea is not exactly a foregone conclusion of the other, but it is one of the conclusions that you can reach. One of the arguments goes: If all men are made in God's image, and God is infinitely more important than any worldly matter, then all men are essentially equal in the face of the glory of God.
"All men are created equal" is a sentiment that had been simmering up and down in theologians for centuries before America was even discovered. Pope Gregory I (p533, at the bottom) put it in one of his moral treatises. John Ball (wiki IK, but it'll do as a summary) preached it as he rabble roused a peasant revolt. There are more, even back then theology was as trend chasing and Zeitgeisty as politics, so it had ebbs and flows of popularity, but notably the idea was never widely persecuted against enough to ever disappear.
It's a simplification that I think was aimed upward and often used cynically or sincerely to imply that "these men are not fit to lead you, God is" without explicitly crossing into treason. But had the unintended effect of entrenching people against the very idea that some people are more beneficial/detrimental to your community than others when looking at their peers or downwards.
Interesting. I've seen a similar argument that humans are worms are more similar than humans and god, because both are creations. But it still requires an argument from the universally accepted doctrine, that is, I would not say that it is obvious or implied.
Very interesting. I don't think this actually raises it to the level of Christian doctrine, or widely accepted, but this is honestly much more than I expected.
First of all, props for using Wiki the same way I do - with some shame. As I understand it, John Ball preached social equality, that no one should be a gentleman as there was none in the garden of Eden. Not even the founders said that, they favored an equality of rights for free men.
I think the problem is that 'equality' today is never qualified, as it should. All men are equal in the eyes of god? Sure. All men should have equal rights? OK. All men are of equal worth? Eh... not so much.