The Culture War That More Christians Should Be Fighting

[BidenPresident]

The indifference Christians on the right often show about wealth disparity flies in the face of thousands of years of Christian teachings. While Christians throughout church history cared deeply about sexual and personal morality, the linchpin of a Christian vision of the social order was the flourishing of the economically disadvantaged. When church leaders across the ages cited evidence of social disorder, they consistently pointed to vast economic inequality.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/03/opinion/economic-justice-culture-war.html

 

[BidenPresident]

"Basil the Great, one of the most influential theologians in the Christian tradition and a fourth-century bishop, argued that the rich who refused to share their goods with the poor were thieves and robbers: “The person who strips another of clothing is called a thief. And those who might clothe the naked and do not — should they not be given the same name? The bread in your board belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your wardrobe belongs to the naked.” He thunders, “the money in your vaults belongs to the destitute.” The rich, he said, are “murderers of the poor.”