Thursday, August 22, 2013

No Justice

On Tuesday night, Dr. Alex Boraine said: "If there is no hell, it's imperative that justice should take place now." This is a common view, although I am not certain it is his personal view. But in urban ministry, I have found that justice mostly doesn't happen -- that is, justice as the solution to injustice -- nor does it offer hope. There's "nowhere to go" with the notion. This would suggest further that it is naive to think of justice as the solution to injustice. The world is worse than we think. OBSERVATION: This is not to say that there isn't any value in notions of justice, or that we don't 'hunger and thirst' for it. See also Stressor: Helplessness.

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