What is right and wrong? What is the right system of laws that protect the freedom of the individual and the security of the individual from those who would hurt others? What do we do with criminals? How do we ensure the justice process to be abuse free? These are questions we ask in our pursuit of the understanding of understanding.
In order for a person or a group of people to pursue reality they must have the freedom to do so without the fear of persecution. In the past great people have been jailed or murdered for truths we take for granted today. And in the future we will look back and see that the jailing of Jack Kevorkian for relieving the suffering of dying people was no different that Galileo being jailed for suggesting the world was round, What things are holding us back today from exploring reality as it really is? To that end we strive as a church to explore ethics and justice so that the great minds of our time can contribute to the tree of knowledge and make this world a smarter place to live in.
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