text: How ironic! - "moving beyond charity" to political action to perfect earthly kingdoms in the name of Christ, fueled by anger no less -"Aren't you mad yet?" 
  
  I ran across this in the latest issue of "First Things": "[Faith's vocation in the public square] detaches us from an idolatrous earthly politics and frees us to pursue the common good with a fitting awareness of the fragility, transience, and ultimate inadequacy of our worldly endeavors, however necessary and noble." Why do we sense so little of this perspective in the strident, materialistic demands of Christian social justice advocates?
  
  Christian social justice warriors, in moving beyond charity and freedom, move beyond Christ and His Gospel, and idolatrously hawser us to a humanistic old covenant of righteousness by law and works, that sucks the public square of oxygen for both charity or freedom.