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Reinhold Niebuhr: The Righteous Care About Justice For The Poor

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Lastly, according to Reinhold Niebuhr, “No nation can ever be good enough to save another nation purely by the power of love. Justice is probably the highest ideal toward which human groups can aspire. ” From this perspective, we must reach further than loving our neighbor, we have a duty to use justice as the catalyst as our highest moral behavior to help promote and understand poverty. This stance stems from this passage of Scripture, Proverbs 29:7, “The righteous care about justice for the poor.” Based on this view we should stop seeking to engage in social justice but instead, follow the example of Jesus which addresses all of humanity’s needs by caring and being the voice for God 's poor and destitute.
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