There's No Justice in Social Justice

Some questions were raised by Rhonda over at Chew Life with Your Mouth Closed,
about Catholic Social teaching. Not having the time to delve a bit deeper into the subject, I passed the baton to Mark in Spokane, who picked it up and ran with it.  Concise and clear his post Catholic social teaching and Hayek's demolition of the idea of social justice  is spot on.

I'm just reading Hayek's Road to Serfdom now and am wondering why I missed out on this fabulous thinker and writer.  Stacy McCain claims to be a Hayekian scholar, but he's also a raaaaacist and a cross-dresser (a little known fact that I made up), so we'll have to investigate that a bit. IYKWIMAITYD

I also want all of you to know that Stacy, with whom I have been sleeping, respects me in the morning. He even stays for breakfast.  And they said it wouldn't last!

(Stay tuned to Adrienne dePitera to find out what's up with the squash and Corn Thins)

More on what happens when "social justice" runs amok:

National Review Online: The Obama Fiasco - Failure all around.

"The whole Obama era to date has been wasted in a historic, amateurish botch of the health-care issue. This began as a crusade for social justice — to cover the uninsured, whose numbers were suitably exaggerated, as most of them are people changing jobs from one health-insuring employer to another, or foreigners resident in this country, legally or otherwise, or the indigent, who are eligible for Medicaid." read the rest

And more of what falls into the falsely interpreted concept of "social justice...

Pajamas Media: Rigging the Economy in the Name of "Fairness"

 Can this be called social justice??? Blog Prof has a picture of the gentleman in question with his wife. Heartbreaking!

 

The BlogProf: Single-Payer Hell: British NHS kills grandfather anyway after he beat cancer

RightKlik complained(?) because I was linking to him all the time. Not wanting to hurt our friendship, I did my best to refrain from even uttering his name. The problem is he keeps posting such good stuff.  I particularly like this post because we all need some good news, and he has done just that.  Thanks RK!

RightKlik:  Fighting ObamaCare: The Good News

Cathy of Alex, the Recovering Dissident Catholic, has a thought provoking post on "progressivist, dissenting, Catholics in Name Only", which applies to all who dissent from the teachings of God.   Most of you know I struggle with some of the priest and bishops bashing that goes on.  (not that Cathy is doing any bashing in this post.) 

At some point, though, we have to ask ourselves at what point do we say "enough", and what the proper course of action should be? When I queried my pastor on that question his answer was, "when you've had enough." Well, I had enough a long time ago and have been mostly silent on the subject, except in comments I leave at other blogs. 

Maybe some of my cleric readers would see fit to do some posts on this subject. 


Cathy of Alex:   Ask Questions; Check the Answers 


Adrienne dePitera: A Special Gift from Austringer