Stop Doing Good Already

I have been skimming through N.T. Wright's Surprised By Hope for the past 3 months. In chapter 5 Cosmic Future: Progress of Despair, he asks us to think about how the human race has picked on alternative theories such as Darwinism, Communism, socialism, etc. to fill in the gaps that the Bible has left open. He asks us to think about how any of those formentioned theories have benefited us. I thought he may be right about how such "progressive" ideas have been used for evil. I suppose that is true about most things. He also lops in social justice or the social gospel of making people physically and emotionally "equal". Certainly, social justice has been useful in spurring the 1960's civil rights movement in the U.S., and even in South Africa in the 1980's but what bad could come out of the social justice movement? Well, I guess it is how far it can go...and also, whose scale of justice are you using in a pluralistic and relativist society? Good question..so whose justice and whose peace are they talking about?

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (NIV)