Thursday, November 17, 2005

Correction to "Primary Injustice"

I am still a blogger novice. For some reason some of the lines of text that I intended to put in the "Primary Injustice" post did not get in there. I think I ran into problems by posting quotes.

With that said I wanted to be clear that my intention was not to run down Span or Harris, but to voice my disagreement with the view that poverty and racism are the primary injustices in our society today. This point is to counter the view of Span's that nothing is more urgent for the church to battle than poverty.

Poverty and Racism are problems that we can improve upon, but I don't believe that we have structures or systems that are inherently racist or force people to remain in poverty. It is actually the opposite. In the United States we have structures and systems that punish racism and help people out of poverty.

We do have laws in this country that not only do not protect the unborn but actually put their lives and health at risk. This is why it is a greater injustice.

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