Religion and Worker Justice
It's never been simple. Even the discussion of worker's rights brings into it the national budgets of nations, and so on. Mind you, when corporations are making billions of dollars in record profits one wonders why there's even a national budget problem. But I digress.
It never has been an easy issue. Are we, as Christians, called to change the government to act in a fair and just manner? Did Jesus ask us to do that? Is that part of the requirement to 'feed the hungry, clothe the naked...etc.'? Did He also not say that we are to 'render unto Caesar what is Caesar's'?
I'm not saying we are or we aren't. I'm just pointing out that it's not always so black and white. (I tend to lean to the 'working to make government fair and just' side of the issue myself) but I learned long ago to always question those who say they know what Jesus meant by something, or they know what Jesus would think about a specific situation. It is wisdom to often pray "Lord, protect us from those to whom you speak directly."
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