I like to open a discussion on Social Justice.
First of all I like to know if you believe that Social Justice can exist to those who do not believe in the existence of a sovereign Creator of the universe in other words God?
I like to consider the fact that without God it is hard to justify the word justice. For instance you may feel, in your own mind, that slavery is appropriate and not unjust. On the other hand you may feel that slavery is evil and unjust. But can there be evil if there is no God that sets the parameters? If there is no God then the line between good and evil must be in the eye of the beholder.
Now the reason of course I bring this up is that the term Social Justice is being thrown around not only by people who profess to be spiritual leaders but by politicians who claim that the state has no right to bring in any religious beliefs into the political discourse. In other words they claim that the separation between God and state is absolute. So to make the argument for Social Justice they must make this argument without the reference to good and evil. If there is no good and evil who defines what is just and unjust?
So can the idea of Social Justice be espoused by those who do not believe in God? If the answer to this is yes then whose mind is the line between good and evil drawn so that we can determine what is just and what is unjust? If the line is drawn by the society that one lives in, then we are saying that each country or society has the right to call slavery a just policy and an accepted practice.
