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Originally Posted by Peter Debelak
Let’s talk about this “justice” you invoke to justify bringing God into politics. First, WHOSE Justice? God’s?
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For example, when I talk about Justice in Politics I am thinking of the civil rights movement and the bombing in Birmingham of the little girls in the church. To me the proper way to respond to that is given by the Lord in the gospels where he talked about the widow going to the unrighteous judge. Why did the "unrighteous judge" listen to her? Because she was causing him trouble. Why did the unrighteous judge in Montgomery listen to them? Because of the bus boycott which caused them trouble.
Could the civil rights movement have been successful without meeting in churches, coordinating in churches and having pastors run the movement? No. The pastors were men that the community trusted, and they were educated and they had an existing network that allowed them to coordinate locally and nationally.