Social justice and social sin

1. Social justice and social sin

2. social justice • An ideal condition in which all members of a society have the same basic rights, security, opportunities, obligations and social benefits. • Social legislation: Laws aimed at promoting the social functioning of individuals and groups and at protecting their rights.

3. Sin as social • Each individual’s sin in some way affect others; • There are sins located in social structures, situations and groups; • Situations and actions which promote or facilitate greed and human selfishness.

4. Social Sin Structures which systematically : • oppress human dignity, • violate human rights, • stifle human freedom, and • impose gross inequality between the rich and the poor.

5. Social Sin The complicity of persons who do not take responsibility for evil being done or who silently allow injustice or oppression to happen

6. Seven social sins by Gandhi: • politics without principles • wealth without work • pleasure without conscience • knowledge without character • commerce without morality • science without humanity • worship without sacrifice