Category: Justice

[image] Lady Justice wears a blindfold in order to avoid the aspects of race, age, and sex. Justice is blind to innate conditions unless a perpetrator aggressed against a victim because of these innate conditions. For example, it would be unjust to hire a less qualified candidate solely because the person is a young black woman, or an old white male. Thus, we reject policies promoting systemic racism such as affirmative action. 

It is unjust to incentivize women to go deeper into poverty, and produce more children, with a social welfare system which promotes sloth and a subsidized abortion industry which promotes promiscuity. 

It is unjust for a US Supreme Court to pretend a woman has a constitutional right to kill her developing baby. 

It is unjust to penalize job creators and producers by imposing a progressive tax system. Forced redistribution of wealth is unjust. E.g., universal health care, “free” college for all, and laws that penalize landlords for collecting rent due, while paying state payments to tenants who continue violating landlord-tenant agreements. Stealing is unjust.

It is unjust for Oregon to distribute grants to public charter schools based on the skin color of students, such is done by HB 2166 (July 19, 2021). In a flagrant violation of the Constitution and Civil Rights acts, Oregon institutionalizes racism rather than fair and equitable practices, thanks to Governor Brown’s Racial Justice Council. 

It is unjust for Oregon’s public charter schools to be coerced (through HB j2954, law as of June 23, 2021) to “select students through an equitable lottery selection process” defined as giving preference for certain races, sexual orientations, gender identity, ethnicity, and/or socioeconomic status. Conversely, we believe all students should have equal opportunity, and not be penalized for their genetics.

It is unjust to wrongly interpret the US constitution as providing the public freedom from religion rather than freedom of religion. E.g., removal of a display of the Ten Commandments would have been an atrocity in the minds of the founding fathers.

It is unjust for the Beaverton school district to mandate that all second grade students be taught, “Gender is something adults came up with to sort people into groups. Many people think there are only two genders, boys and girls, but this is not true. There are many ways to be a boy, a girl, both or neither.“

When these injustices are corrected, a better culture will result.

In our study of world history and sociology, we summize that some ideas and practices are better than others. 

For example, when the human sacrifice done to appease the Aztec gods was replaced by Cortez in 1521, a better culture followed, one that claimed the sacrifice of Christ was done to appease the Christian God. 

When the Spanish emphasis of power hierarchies, based on blood lines and papal authority, was diminished by the Protestant work ethic, based on the equality exercised by a priesthood of believers, a better culture came to thrive. An entrepreneurial spirit of self governance, unshackled from the dictates of kings and bishops, gave birth to the USA.

When, in 1779, former slave trader, and then clergyman John Newton published his hymn “Amazing Grace”, and influenced the 1785 conversion of Parliament’s William Wilberforce to Christianity, a better culture resulted. Wilberforce was instrumental to ending the slave trade in the British empire in 1833. He forced the East India Company to allow Christian missionaries, such as William Carry, into India. This ended the 1000 year old practice of sati, whereby widows were burned to death on the funeral pier of the deceased husband. A better culture resulted. Carry translated Hindi works into English, sharing botany and other scientific knowledge of the Indian subcontinent with Europe. 

Quakers, and other Christian abolitionists, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, influenced the Union to force an end to slavery in 1863. A better culture resulted. 

When pastor Martin Luther King, shared his dream that one day people will be “judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”, he was sharing a vision for a better culture.  His basis was in the theology that in Christ there “is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female.”

We could proceed to relate how better cultures resulted, such as from the collapse of the atheistic USSR in 1991, which had destroyed churches and killed hundreds of millions of its citizens.

The critical point is that the advance of biblical Christianity leads the betterment of culture. Thus, the sidelining of Christianity results in the worsening of culture.