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This book compares biblical justice with ideological social justice at its worst (Marxist, dangerous, atheistic, satanic). The problem is that he doesn't leave room in the arguments for biblical social justice. He says at the beginning of the book that he agrees that the bible demands that we care for the oppressed, but by the middle of the book, he criticizes pastors who say that social justice is one aspect of biblical justice. He implies that anyone demonstrating against unfair treatment of blacks in America is one step away from 'gulags, guillotines and death camps'. The ills of America are sugar coated with regards to black history. Rather than taking a view for God's truth regardless of political leanings, Allen praises the right and criticizes the left. Black or white in a very grey world. I can't imagine any one with an understanding of both the bible and the history of racism in America would be able to stomach this heavily biased book. Allen challenges the left to address 'the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.' I wish he would do the same. Although every author has some bias, this one is over the top. I suggest you skip this book and look at black Christian authors who have seen the church's response to the color of their bodies first hand (and it's not what I would expect). I have appreciated Drew Hart (The Trouble I've Seen and Who Will be a Witness), Jemar Tisby (The Color of Compromise) and Austin Channing Brown (I'm Still Here).