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He says: Judas is the patron saint of social justice because he thought service to the poor was more important than worship of God. Hichborn does not say: Judas is the patron saint of social justice because he stole from the poor. And even there is such a definition floating around somewhere, Mr. Hichborn thinks it does, he needs to point us to who defines it in any such way. The second problem is that thievery from the poor does not match any definition of social justice, true or false, that I know. He does not practice social justice here at all. Judas does not want to give the money to the poor he wants to keep it for himself and pretend he gave it to the poor. “This said,” John writes, “not that he cared for the poor but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box he used to take what was put into it.”
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Hichborn’s exegesis.įirst, he misses the point of the story, which is not that Judas somehow put service to the poor at some heightened level of importance above the worship we owe God. Hichborn comes is when he says that Judas “elevated social action (service to the poor) above adoration and service to God.” He is attempting to exegete John 12:1-8, in which Mary of Bethany (the sister of Lazarus) anoints Jesus with spikenard and Judas objects: “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” Hichborn finds himself at odds with someone’s false understanding of social justice, then he needs to clarify how he is using the term and how that differs from social justice as the Church understands it. Or perhaps social justice is too complex and serious a topic to reduce to a meme. I understand that nuance is not in the nature of a meme, but that is what a lede is for.
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If the meme promoted confusion rather than clarity before, it promotes confusion rather than clarity still. Hichborn’s meme remains as it was, with no clarification as to what he means by “social justice.” I have no real reason to doubt this, and thus my removal of a post that bore as its (somewhat hyperbolic) title “Lepanto Institute Abandons Catholicism.” And yet Mr.
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