It is wrong to associate religious feeling or belief or whatever it is that we see in our coutnry with worldwide Christian charity. Much of the socially conservative Chrsitians are simply not involoved in the already well established bodies that do charity and social developmet work, who rely just as strongly as their secular counterparts on a robust international law which the administration has always tried to undermine. It is a typical solpisism in American political thought that seeks to analyze all of these efforts in light of an American cultural shift. Surely there are points to be made about religious and secular cocneption of justice and work to end injusitce, but the international efforts as a whole carried out by religious organizations cannot in good faith be folded into the discussion of American religiousness. So, there are at least, I would say, two ways of thinkign about religious justice and charity: one where it is on behalf of a chruch or a worldwide community of believers, and on where it is directly associated ith the ideals and self-conception of a state. The problem we care about is the implications for the state (our state) of these two cocneptions. It contributes niothing to this disucsiioon to start making claims about religious work for justice in general simply becasue the admin seeks to make all moral action part of its grand gesturing simply by claiming to have similar ideals. Its claims do not make all religious ieals AMERICAN ideals. And there is nothing hypocritical about religious justice and religious work for justice PER SE.
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