{"id":2932,"date":"2020-08-28T20:34:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2020-08-28T20:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:34:04","slug":"the-mortal-danger-in-social-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/2020\/08\/28\/the-mortal-danger-in-social-action\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mortal Danger in Social Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;I now think that making God secondary (which in the end is to make Him nothing) is &#8230; <em>the<\/em> mortal danger in social action, especially in view of the marked intimations of virtue &#8211; even arrogant virtue &#8211; that often perilously accompany it. Some may avoid this danger, perhaps. But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment &#8211; to love God <em>first<\/em> &#8211; nor is it clear that I was obeying the second &#8211; to <em>love<\/em> my neighbor. Hating the oppressors of my neighbor isn&#8217;t perhaps what Christ had in mind.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Sheldon Vanauken (1914-1996), from the afterword to <em>A Severe Mercy<\/em> (1977), reflecting on his involvement in the antiwar movement in the 1960s. Emphasis in the original.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I now think that making God secondary (which in the end is to make Him nothing) is &#8230; the mortal danger in social action, especially in view of the marked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2220,2223,674,949,2214,2218,2219,2212,2217,2222,2221],"class_list":["post-2932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-severe-mercy","tag-arrogant-virtue","tag-great-commandment","tag-love-god-with-all-your-heart","tag-love-your-neighbor-as-yourself","tag-micah-68","tag-sheldon-vanauken","tag-social-action","tag-social-change","tag-societal-change","tag-under-the-mercy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2932\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desiringgodchurch.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}