Demolishing Justice and Freewill

 

 

Is there such a thing as freewill? One atheistic friend confided, “Since we do not have freewill, we couldn’t have acted otherwise, and this “insight” has helped me to deal with my guilt and shame.” In essence, he was saying that he cannot be truly held responsible for rape or of breaking his wife’s arm.

Others who have adopted a cultural Marxist perspective denying justice in another way. They insist that what we call “justice” is no more than a repressive tool that the white ruling class has invented to maintain control and to protect their own interests. Consequently, there is no moral truth, no right and wrong. Everything is just an exercise of power.

Results: On Dec. 12, the outgoing president commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people, including a woman who killed two of her ex-husbands and another lover; a woman who stole $54 million from a small town in Illinois; and a Pennsylvania judge who sentenced minors to harsh prison sentences for petty crimes in exchange for kickbacks from the prison operators. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/23/joe-biden-commutes-sentences-37-murderers-death-ro/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHff0tleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHT-7X5egS5mCBR8SmPoVHxER0255o52mTwxgucTLlZ_PxgfKYQc42j2w4A_aem_W1R6yMI0jl6DGCgRBZdPhw

Under CRT (Critical Race Theory), Justice is no longer about  individual guilt or innocence. A CRT founder, Derrick Bell, wrote, "The whole liberal worldview of private rights and public sovereignty mediated by the rule of law needed to be exploded." https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2021/06/23/the-movement-against-critical-race-theory-is-deeply-necessary-n2591397

Ibram X. Kendi, the author of the best-seller, How to Be an Anti-Racist, has ironically written that: “the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.”—a great formula for mutual destruction!

Only power speaks. Therefore CRT will resort to violence and coercion. Even the cultural Marxist of the Frankfort School, Max Horkheimer, had written “It is not economics that creates oppression but rather the nuclear family, traditional institutions, and concepts of race, gender and sexual identity. These are the chains of tyranny which must be broken by revolution.” However, violence in its many forms is no longer tyranny!

 

Consequently, there is no such thing as justice and freewill. These are just inventions. Shelby Steele is a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. In White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, Steele argues that the black community now suffers more through paternalistic programs and the victimization narrative than from their Jim Crow legacy:

“What I've encountered in my life, most often in the white world, is good will, is people have who have wanted to help me. When I was younger and starting a career, people who mentored me, who really felt it was important to give me the best opportunity to pursue my dreams. And my sense is that that's really been an experience for most blacks who have tried to venture out and develop themselves…”

“One of the most remarkable things in all of human history is the degree of moral evolution, that white Americans have made from the mid-60s to this day. No group of people in history have morally evolved away from a social evil that quickly and to that degree in this sort of short span of time. And very often, in our calculations in thinking about race, we don't give whites credit for that.” 

The denial of Freewill: All our thoughts and actions are predetermined  by bio-chemical processes. 

Consequently, no one is guilty or deserves punishment, just treatment and love. No wonder there are judges who allow murderers to go free and mayors and governors who reject the truths of justice and declare their jurisdictions “sanctuary towns and states.” These ideas can only lead to chaos, violence, growing victimization, and destruction. 

However, Jesus never justified criminality or the rejection of God and traditional values: 

Matthew 23:37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!” 

John 5:40 “yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. 

Genesis 4:6–7 The LORD said to the unrepentant murderer Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen? If you do well, will you not be accepted?...” 

However, Jesus did acknowledge that many were held captive by their blameworthy love of the darkness and hatred of the light (of truth). (John 3:19-20)