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Why Are So Many Christians Silent About Injustice?

Why Are So Many Christians Silent About Injustice?

Last updated on: March 24, 2025 at 10:00 am by Henry Karlson

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Why Are So Many Christians Silent About Injustice? 2025-03-24T10:00:30-05:00 Henry Karlson

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I Wish We Didn’t Need To Talk About Politics Either

I know many people do not want to talk about politics, but it is difficult for me to see all the malevolent actions done by the Trump administration, the way it is treating the poor, seniors, refugees, migrants, women, minorities, LGBQT, and its critics with such contempt, and not wonder how long this can go on. Will the American people, and the media, keep denying what is happening right in front of them? Can they not see the way the Trump administration is trying to erase history, especially by denying the contributions of women and minorities? Can they not see how Trump is making enemies around the world by the way he is mistreating America’s former allies, like Canada, or Europe? Do they not see the malice behind the treatment being given to tourists coming to visit the United States, tourists with visas, tourists who have done nothing wrong, when such tourists are taken in by ICE, put in a cell, and virtually have their rights denied to them? Can they not see the evil behind the way migrants and refugees are being treated, where they are being falsely accused of being criminals, told, because they are criminals (already judged guilty without a trial), they have no right to due process, and then shipped off to places like El Salvador, where they are imprisoned, possibly to be lost and forgotten (if no one speaks for them)? Is it not obvious that the Trump administration is following the same strategy which was used against the Jews, Gypsies, and the LGBTQ in Nazi Germany? I wonder why all those who have said “never again” are not screaming as loud as they can about the way history is repeating itself.

Parallels Between the U.S and Nazi Germany

Of course, what we see happening today should not be entirely surprising. Those who know history will see the parallels going on between the United States and Nazi Germany and will know the way these things end. Germany wanted a final solution, erasing the Jews from the world. They were taken into concentration camps because they were deemed as criminals causing Germany great harm before they were taken to death camps. The German people were made to support such policies, not care, or be too afraid to resist what was going on. The Trump administration is hoping to make the same happen in the United States, as it seeks to deny the right to free speech on college campuses, and threatens critics, often declaring such criticism to be criminal. This is also why the Trump administration wants to change the way education is done in the United States, why they want to get rid of “woke” or “DEI” programs, using the terms so vaguely they will be able to claim any program which analyzes the history and the evil which was done before as being similar to what is being done by them as being “woke” and to be eliminated. They are doing so on governmental websites. They will certainly do so in the schools. They want to create a new, pseudo-history, all the while claiming any other history is revisionism, when they are the ones making such changes.

Trampling On the Basic Rights of the Poor

What the Trump administration is trying to create is not a society that promotes justice with law and order, but on the way it can use its power to create a new order and laws that promote their ideologies instead of justice. Those who want to ignore politics are following the apathy or banality of evil which allowed the Nazis to stay in power. Trump constantly pardons or supports criminals; he himself was found guilty on 34 felony counts. His allies help those charged with rape all the while trampling on the basic rights of the poor, the vulnerable, minorities, and women. .

I know many people are upset that I keep talking about Trump and the Trump administration. They think I should not be concerned about politics, despite the way such politics undermines justice and the common good, principles which Christians should be promoting. To be sure, I am upset that I need to constantly talk about politics and what Trump is doing. I am angry that we are in a situation where the American people are not only allowing, but promoting grave evils. I am upset that the lives of millions can be and will easily by snuffed out by cruel tyrants. I am upset at all the gaslighting being done to help keep many Americans ignorant. I am extremely upset at how much of this is being done by Christians, and not just done by Christians, but being done in the name of Christ. How can someone honestly look at the cruelty being done to foreigners, to those who find themselves arrested, imprisoned, and their human rights violated, because of the color of their skin or the country of their origin, and not see how evil this is? How can a Christian say they must support such actions because Trump is president, when they willfully ignored what Biden and Obama told them to do when they were president? It is clear, they do not believe what they tell others; they do not care about life, when they have no problem ignoring the indignity done to countless innocents. How can they not speak out when they hear a refugee, who fled for their lives to the United States, and at one time found welcome, is abducted and treated in the most contemptible fashion, not because they have done anything wrong, but because authorities did not like the tattoos on their body?

What Is Being Done In Their Name

Christians are to be the salt of the earth. They are to care about human dignity, knowing that what is done to the least of us is done to Christ himself. Why do so many of them, those who call themselves pro-life, do not speak when the value of life is being threatened, when poor people are having their health care taken away from them, when the elderly are being told not to worry if they don’t get the money they need to survive month to month when the money which had been used to help support farmers and the hungry is taken away so that farmers lose their farm and the poor around the world lose their lives, when Russia abducts and abuses Ukrainian children, or when families with children needing cancer treatment are kicked out of the United States so they cannot continue receiving such life-giving care? They do not speak out for life, indeed, many of them seem to support the cruelty that is going on. Who do they think they are fooling? Christians need to take a good look at what is being done in their name and challenge it before it is too late. If they don’t, who will listen to them?

* This Is Part L Of My Personal Reflections And Speculations Series

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