Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" – Martin Luther King Jr.

This sounds good, but I wonder in what sense it is true.

Take for example injustice in Zambia. How does that threaten justice in the U. S.? Taking a purely materialistic point of view, that is, leaving out any consideration of spiritual forces, it would seem that the only way injustice in Zambia could affect the U. S. is by knowledge of injustice there encouraging forces of injustice here and/or discouraging those seeking justice here.

On the level of spiritual warfare, on the other hand, I think that there is really only one battle in the world, and Zambia is one flank. If the forces of good fail there, it may well affect us all.


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