This week’s commentary on the Social Gospel Blog with Author Rev. Paul J. Bern: “Fighting Back Against Evil and Injustice”

Ways to Fight Back Against an Evil and Dangerous World

By Rev. Paul J. Bern

It is fundamentally unfair that ever greater numbers of US senior citizens live into their 100’s while mired in poverty. As this is happening, the horrific specter of terrorism rears its ugly head as it spreads globally, threatening everything in its path over, ironically, religious differences. One priest/minister saves lepers and drives out demons, another abuses kids. One Nazi ran the ovens while others hid Jews. There’s life and death, positive and negative, good and bad in all kinds of folks, even the ‘bad’ ones. And when we marvel at those contradictions we have a ready explanation. There’s good and bad everywhere, in all races, nations, societies. We have yet to bridge our differences in race or culture or nationality or faith, but at least we can all agree on that simple truth while we continue to work on all the others.

We live in a 21st century of instant communication, jumbo jets, knowledge and computing powers that grow exponentially, and everything on social media and cable TV all the time. National boundaries are beginning to blur. Races, ethnicity’s and various…