Quakers call for end to social injustice
Britain Yearly Meeting has released a statement calling for an end to social injustice
Britain Yearly Meeting has released a statement describing Friends in this country as ‘ready to challenge the incoming UK government to adopt policies to cut social injustice’.
According to the statement, Friends will also press the government to ‘value the contribution everyone can make to building a more just and sustainable society’. The statement reflects the feeling at Yearly Meeting (YM) 2015 where Friends considered the question: ‘How are we led to live out our faith in a world where we see systematic injustice and increasing inequality?
Minute 36 at YM 2015 said: ‘We recognise the problems in the world and the urgency of acting on them. Our current political and (especially) economic systems only recognise and encourage part of the human condition: the selfish, competitive, greedy part.’
It added: ‘So much of what is good and beautiful and true in the world is being trashed. The model of power as domination needs to be challenged and replaced with a model of power as service to the community; in doing this, we need to live our testimony and hold firm to its source in faith.’
The minute also acknowledged that: ‘We need to recognise how many of us benefit through the possessions we hold and the houses we live in, and to consider when we are part of the problem.’
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