text: One of the interesting differences between the social justice gospel advocated in the U.S. and the socialism of Scandinavian countries idealized by the Left is that socialistic Scandinavian countries like Norway are not welfare states. Even communism does not advocate a welfare state where you have high percentages of working age adults dependent on government handouts, and so few actually paying for those handouts. I wonder how Christian social justice advocates feel about Paul's counsel to the Thessalonians: "He who will not work will not eat"
  
  Unfortunately, more so in the U.S. than almost anywhere else in the world, social justice has given us this warped, insidious notion that it is compassionate and just to not only allow dependency, but to foster the conditions that encourage and perpetuate it. Thus, even the church's charity often ends up looking like corporate government extender programs more than life transforming, personal encounters with the Incarnate Christ.