In a Universe with a Loving God, the exercise of free will (to either love Him or reject Him) must be an absolute. And if free will exists due to a loving God, then it follows that justice too must exist.
One can argue that justice is rarely seen on this Earth, and they would be right, but then, according to Catholicism, we are under the dominion of the Prince of Lies, so it fits. Which necessarily means that final justice is probably beyond the physical realm in most cases. And once again, Catholic dogma says this too.
Judgement day… vengeance is the Lord’s… and so on.
Does this mean we should abandon the very concept of trying to have justice in the world as we inhabit it? Absolutely not.
While it is Catholic dogma that justice is hard to have on Earth, it is also Catholic dogma that it is the duty of every Catholic man to defend innocents, his family, and himself.
Of course one can also choose martyrdom, but for those of us not that way built, the only options left are either to act in accordance with justice, to the best of our ability, or to slink away in cowardice. There really is not fourth alternative.
So if you are not a coward or a martyr, the only option left to you is to fight the tsunami of injustice as best you can.
A gentleman I know defended teaching his students that abortion is murder in one of the most secularised, globohomo hives on Earth: the United Kingdom. And he did it with polite but firm sticking to reality.
And guess what the repercussion was?
Nothing.
Because that is all that is needed with these people. Push back.
The government is never going to enforce justice in most cases, because the government, as Lysander Spooner stated, is what results when a group of thugs organise themselves.
Enforcing justice is not easy and is never done by committee unless that committee is actually composed of truly honest, pious men, with steel spines. And it’s been a few centuries since such committees existed. And even then they lasted only briefly in most cases, because as they say, power corrupts.
But such men did exist, and a prime example was mentioned by Rodney Stark in I think a couple of his books. From memory, I think it was: How the West Won , and God’s Battalions .
A group of about 40 pilgrims was returning from the holy land (they had all been crusaders) and they came across a town in Sicily that was controlled by Moors still. They requested armour and weapons from the citizens of that city, and when this was delivered they promptly delivered it back to the Citizens free of any controlling Moors.
They then returned the weapons and armour, refused any payment, and continued on their way home as they had been doing.
Justice can’t be bought or faked.
And enforcing it is not easy, but it is the duty of all honest men.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
