Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe

by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.

Because the goal is fixing sin, the staffers’ training is based in antiracism, and their power is meant to be wielded “against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.” This is not just law-work; it is heart-work. This is inside-out, top-down transformation. This is the work of a new class of priests. The words of Milton Friedman serve as a fitting caveat: A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.