Sentences with phrase «unjust status quo»

The idea is fundamentally absolutist, since it allows only one explanation for Democratic voters choosing Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders: the Establishment gamed the process to ensure her victory and preserve an unjust status quo.

These charges are extended to Lutheran communities in South Africa and Chile, for example, which allegedly identified themselves with an unjust status quo on the basis of their Lutheran convictions.

This went along with the acceptance of the dominant social order, and hence favoured the socially unjust status quo.

Clergy often charge that such an ethic is inherently conservative, a compromise with an unjust status quo.

Especially must it be free from ideologies that deride charity as a stop - gap measure or even as the servant of an unjust status quo.

Not exact matches

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

Unless we drastically reshape both our theology and our entire institutional church life so that this fact becomes as central to evangelical theology and evangelical institutional programs as it is in Scripture, we will demonstrate to the world that our verbal commitment to sola scriptura is a dishonest ideological support for an unjust, materialistic status quo.

This is, of course, only one very specific example, but it demonstrates that education is the best means for altering people's perspectives and in so doing challenge the many unjust features of the status quo.