Jim Wallis and Sojourners: Clients of George Soros

[FrankRep]

Glenn Beck deconstructs Marxist Rev. Jim Wallis
YouTube - Glenn Beck deconstructs Marxist Rev. Jim Wallis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W9-N7xCQQ0)


Jim Wallis and Sojourners: Clients of George Soros (http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/63907.html)


LewRockwell.com
August 19, 2010


Marvin Olasky has a fascinating piece on how George Soros (http://www.worldmag.com/webextra/17052) — hardly a friend of Christianity — gave Jim Wallis and Sojourners $200,000 in 2004, and some smaller grants since then. What made it so interesting was Wallis’s response when asked about the grant during a very friendly interview:



Dalrymple asked, “Is there anything wrong with making common cause with the George Soroses of the world?”

Jim exploded: “It’s not hyperbole or overstatement to say that Glenn Beck lies for a living. I’m sad to see Marvin Olasky doing the same thing. No, we don’t receive money from Soros.”

Jim kept insisting: “We don’t receive money from George Soros. Our books are totally open, always have been. Our money comes from Christians who support us and who read Sojourners. That’s where it comes from.”


Even more interesting was that the pages that had documented the $200K grant suddenly disappeared from the web. However, Olasky and others have done a lot of digging and found all of the relevant grants.

So, we have Jim Wallis, who clearly had to have been aware of receiving such a large grant, accusing Marvin Olasky of “lying for a living,” when, in fact, it was Wallis who was lying. No doubt, he was lying in the “name of the people.”


SOURCE:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/63907.html

[FrankRep]

George Soros Funding Jim Wallis and Sojourners
http://www.insidecatholic.com/myblog/george-soros-funding-jim-wallis-and-sojourners.html

Why Is Jim Wallis Denying that He Receives Grants from Deep-Pocketed Leftists like George Soros?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/244011/why-jim-wallis-denying-he-receives-grants-deep-pocketed-leftists-george-soros-jay-w-ri

Hugh Hewitt: Jim Wallis and George Soros
http://billionaires.forbes.com/article/076P75D9YG372?q=billionaire+OR+billionaires+OR+bil lionaire%27s

[FrankRep]

What Exactly Is 'Social Justice'? (http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/what_exactly_is_social_justice.html)


American Thinker
May 16, 2010


The term "social justice" is now commonly used by leftist activists, clergy, educators, judges, and politicians to describe the goal they seek to achieve with many of their policies. No precise definition of "social justice" is ever offered by the left. Instead, the term is always used in a vague way -- as if everyone already knows, or should know, what the seemingly well-intentioned phrase "social justice" means.

So, what exactly is "social justice"?

Social justice is the complete economic equality of all members of society. While this may sound like a lofty objective, what it really means is that wealth should be collected by the government and evenly distributed to everyone. In short, social justice is communism. It is rooted in the Marxist idea that the money people make and the property they own do not rightfully belong to the people who make the money and own the property.

Karl Marx's ultimate criticism of capitalism is its recognition of private property. The reason private property is so evil, Marx contended, is that it is a function of economic class warfare. In other words, "the rich" use the concept of private property to oppress "the poor." In order to understand this convoluted thought process, Marx's view of money must be examined, since money is the means by which private property is acquired.

According to Marx, money is really a "collective product" that belongs to everyone. His reasoning, as described in The Communist Manifesto, is that money can be made only "by the united action of all members of society." Factory owners, for example, cannot manufacture goods by themselves. Rather, the factory owners need workers to run the machines that produce goods. Consequently, in Marx's mind, when the manufactured good is sold, the worker has as much right to the proceeds of that sale as the factory owner does.

Marx transposed that idea to the societal level, professing that the aggregate wealth of the rich was actually created by the aggregate work of the poor.

As a result, capitalism is seen by Marxists as a system invented by the rich to ensure that the poor do not get their fair share of money. Instead, the rich keep most of the money for themselves. In turn, the rich use this "stolen" money to selfishly purchase private property in the form of factories, land, houses, and anything else they choose. As such, Marxists see all privately owned property as the fruit of a massive capitalist fraud against the poor.

What about wages? Aren't workers compensated for the work that they do under a capitalist system? Not according to Marx, who saw wages merely as part of the capitalist scheme.

First of all, Marx believed that capitalists pay workers only the bare minimum to survive -- an amount that "merely suffices to prolong and reproduce a bare existence."

Secondly, Marx stated that every cent a worker makes is paid back to the rich in the form of rent, groceries, car payments, and the like. As Marx said, "no sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manufacturer ... at an end ... than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc."

Consequently, Marx held that workers, by design, can never make enough money to acquire private property of their own under the capitalist system.

"Social justice" is intended to remedy this exploitation of workers by capitalists. Marx saw man only in a social context -- meaning not as an individual, but as a part of a class. Thus, the word "social" (in "social justice") refers to classes in a society.

"Justice," in the Marxist context, means economic equality. This is the Marxist utopian ideal that all members in a society should receive the same amount of compensation, regardless of occupation, skill, or work ethic. The oft-quoted socialist mantra, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need," comes from this concept.

Social justice can be accomplished in only one way in a capitalist society -- by wealth redistribution. This is done by seizing the wealth of the greedy rich and giving it to the poor, using the government as the agent of redistribution. This is the true aim of the left's social justice agenda.

Marx's dim view of capitalism must be put in context, taking into consideration the time and place in which he lived. In 1848, the year of The Communist Manifesto's publication, the Industrial Revolution was at its height in Europe. In many European towns, the skies were filled with black smoke spewing from massive factories that employed scores of workers in horrible conditions.

However, just as Marx's understanding of capitalism was limited to factories existing in 1840s Europe, his criticisms of capitalism must be likewise limited. Marx's philosophy is demonstrably false in the modern-day United States.

To begin with, Marx contemplated only two classes. One was a very small and privileged class of property and business owners; the remainder of the population was grouped into a massive class of impoverished workers. Therefore, Marxism cannot account for the millions of American middle-class property owners, nor can it explain the existence of small businesses, which are the backbone of the American economy.

People who enjoy their job or make more than a subsistence wage are also inexplicable under Marxism, as are "rags to riches" stories and anyone advancing in salary or position. Those people simply don't exist in the Marxist world.

The truth is that the only "class" in the United States excluded from reaping the benefits of capitalism is the class that chooses not to participate in American society. Fueled by the rhetoric of leftists, this class sits idle, dreaming of perceived wrongs that justify its inactivity. The only exploitation in America is committed by politicians, who use stolen money to subsidize this class in exchange for votes. That is not justice -- it is criminal.


SOURCE:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/05/what_exactly_is_social_justice.html

[FrankRep]

Progressives Attempt to Make Church and State One and the Same (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/37-history/3579-progressives-attempt-to-make-church-and-state-one-in-the-same)

The New American
19 May 2010


If you’re not convinced that the intentions of this initiative are less than noble, take a look at the members of the council and you will find Reverend Jim Wallis, president and executive director of Sojourners. Jim Wallis has publicly admitted to being a Marxist when recounting a conversation he had with social activist Dorothy Day, another pronounced Marxist. When asked, Wallis also admitted to seeking the redistribution of wealth. Though a reverend, Jim Wallis shares similar qualities with Reverend Harry Ward, founder of the ACLU, who was a Methodist minister but admitted under oath to being a communist.

[FrankRep]

Cultural Marxism leaks into Christian Culture under the name of "Social Justice"


Must read links:

Cultural Marxism (Political Correctness) ft. Ron Paul, G Edward Griffin, Pat Buchanan
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=257495

Video: The History of Cultural Marxism and The Frankfurt School
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=257599