Secularist Culture
What can nobody agree on about justice?
Nobody can agree on what 'Justice' is.
What is the difference between Justice and Revenge?
Justice is treating everyone fairly and only sentencing them to what is correct. Revenge is when you see someone in a bad lighting and think you know what they deserve.
What is Liberty?
Freedom from undue restraint.
Due to our fallen nature, human error is...
likely, not just possible.
True or False: Everyone is guilty until proven otherwise.
False
Cindy was bullied in the hallway by one of the mean girls. Because of this she justified whacking the girl's car with a baseball bat and spray painting it. Is this Justice or Revenge?
Revenge
The world believes that we must be tough on crime. However, this causes what oversights to the victims and accused?
Victims are rarely compensated for everything done to them and many times the accused are given a sentence that doesn't fit their crime.
Define Justice.
Based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair.
Research shows that both ___ and ___ often go hand in hand.
poverty and crime
Should we err on the side of the defendent or the prosecution until the truth is found?
Defendent
What do people claim about God's actions in the Bible?
Some people try to say that actions taken by God in the bible would be more classified as revenge than justice.
Give some bible verses that talk about the use of justice.
Answers may vary:
Ex. Lev 19:15, Deu 32:4
Law is...
the study of ordinances designed to help citizens coexist peacefully.
What is needed to remedy structural evil? Why?
Structures of Justice are what is needed because it is a structure of everything the evil is against.
Instead of focusing on Rehabilitation, Christians should look beyond it to:
Transformation.
Give some examples of what people claim 'justice' is.
People claim that it is, 'getting back at people who have wronged them" or "finding the perpetrator".
What happens if we are too hard on crime?
It can cause them to just simply continue with their way of life. With no glipse of light in the distance, why would anyone try to leave?
Rehabilitation is any attempt to...
change a criminal's tendency to commit crimes so that the indivitual will be less likely to reoffend when he or she is reintroduced into society.
Explain your interpretation of this quote: "Being tough on crime can create a more orderly society, but at what cost" (Myers, 444).
Answers may vary:
Ex. This quote brings up the consequences of being too harse in the uptake. While we should make sure true justice is taken and crime dropped, we should also have good means in detering new crimals from popping up.
Should we just trust that our justice systems are working and biblical? Why or why not?
No, because it doesn't matter how many precautions have been put into place, Human error will always win out.
How have people perverted the justice system today?
Judges take bribes and people lie while on the stand are just two of the many ways the justice system has been perverted.
Other ways: Jury call is rigged so that it is made up of all friends, evidence is destroyed, sleezy lawyers
True or False: God has only ever done things in the name of justice. Never once has he enacted upon revenge.
True
What is the deffinition of Government?
The governing body of a nation, state, or community.
Rawlism is an idea that just like economic goods, social goods can be...
redistributed among the people.
How can we fix our justice systems to become more biblical?
We can take a look at how they are run. Even if the rules are biblical doesn't mean that they are always followed.