Doth Justice be too hard a thing?
Justice. Think about it, let it roll over in your mind for a moment. What comes to mind? If you're me, it's the Justice Leauge of America (JLA) right away.
Consider the following for a moment...
1. The quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.
2. Rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of ground or reason: to complain with justice.
3. The moral principle determining just conduct.
4. Conformity to this principle, as manifested in conduct; just conduct, dealing, or treatment.
5. The administering of deserved punishment or reward.
Do these come to mind? Or when someone says Justice today, does one get this idea of "Social Justice" - the righting of social wrongs? Now I am not saying this is a bad thing, but wiser minds than I have said that "stealing from one person is the work of a thief, while stealing from many is social justice".
I'm not here to talk about Social Justice, I'm talking about Justice that has to do with the righting of wrongs done by concrete evil, by people who are evil and depraved, like Saddam, Hitler, Kim Jong Il, UBL, Hugo Chavez, or Amadinejhad. Justice where you know something is wrong and it must be fixed, that evil is at work and that evil needs a good vanquishing.
Do we talk about this in Christian circles anymore? (Outside of the Military that is...) Nope. We talk about Faith, Hope, Love, Mercy, Unity, ect. Not that these are not important, they are, but certian concepts are forsaken today because they are hard, and the world doesn't like them. They force us to confront the inate sinfulness and depravity of man, for he is NOT good in and of himself, contrary to what David Sanger and Benjamin Creme would have someone believe (no, you aren't God, and Bruce Almighty checked out a long time ago...).
I think the Military has a good handle on this, better than anyone else, and even then, that solid foundation for the confronting and vanquishing of what is evil may be diminishing, as the god of Political Correctness is paid homage, creating a void of blackness that still needs something to fill it...which is increasingly difficult when the gods of tolerence won't let God enter the picture for these troops to rely on, barring Chaplins from doing what they want to do, to walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death with their men, their comrades.
Maybe all of this is because my brother is about to join the brotherhood that is the United States Air Force, as he begins his training in just over 24 hours, or maybe this is me stating a position on the eve of the political war that is going to break out when the Democratic majority attempts to stop the efforts of the President to go forward with the extra troops, attempting to strip the military of funding to use to fight the central front on the War on Terror - thus leaving my brother and his fellow Airman unable to defend our freedom.
I find myself convinced more and more that a central front to the War on Terror is the home front...and there needs to be good people to fight that battle too.
Consider the following for a moment...
1. The quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause.
2. Rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title; justness of ground or reason: to complain with justice.
3. The moral principle determining just conduct.
4. Conformity to this principle, as manifested in conduct; just conduct, dealing, or treatment.
5. The administering of deserved punishment or reward.
Do these come to mind? Or when someone says Justice today, does one get this idea of "Social Justice" - the righting of social wrongs? Now I am not saying this is a bad thing, but wiser minds than I have said that "stealing from one person is the work of a thief, while stealing from many is social justice".
I'm not here to talk about Social Justice, I'm talking about Justice that has to do with the righting of wrongs done by concrete evil, by people who are evil and depraved, like Saddam, Hitler, Kim Jong Il, UBL, Hugo Chavez, or Amadinejhad. Justice where you know something is wrong and it must be fixed, that evil is at work and that evil needs a good vanquishing.
Do we talk about this in Christian circles anymore? (Outside of the Military that is...) Nope. We talk about Faith, Hope, Love, Mercy, Unity, ect. Not that these are not important, they are, but certian concepts are forsaken today because they are hard, and the world doesn't like them. They force us to confront the inate sinfulness and depravity of man, for he is NOT good in and of himself, contrary to what David Sanger and Benjamin Creme would have someone believe (no, you aren't God, and Bruce Almighty checked out a long time ago...).
I think the Military has a good handle on this, better than anyone else, and even then, that solid foundation for the confronting and vanquishing of what is evil may be diminishing, as the god of Political Correctness is paid homage, creating a void of blackness that still needs something to fill it...which is increasingly difficult when the gods of tolerence won't let God enter the picture for these troops to rely on, barring Chaplins from doing what they want to do, to walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death with their men, their comrades.
Maybe all of this is because my brother is about to join the brotherhood that is the United States Air Force, as he begins his training in just over 24 hours, or maybe this is me stating a position on the eve of the political war that is going to break out when the Democratic majority attempts to stop the efforts of the President to go forward with the extra troops, attempting to strip the military of funding to use to fight the central front on the War on Terror - thus leaving my brother and his fellow Airman unable to defend our freedom.
I find myself convinced more and more that a central front to the War on Terror is the home front...and there needs to be good people to fight that battle too.
posted by A. R. Welty at 10:33 PM
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