Why God Permits Injustice

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ 

Dr. Alan A. Godlas said, “A friend raised the question about why God Permits injustice.  Here is my two cents worth on this subject, although I am not going to give a reason why God Permits injustice.  Rather I am going to address the question of how we can respond whenever something apparently unjust occurs.  Irrespective of whether or not God Permits injustice, whenever an apparent injustice occurs and we wonder whether or not God is Permitting it or if we feel depressed, angry, or confused, or have similar feelings concerning it; we can take it as an opportunity to make our loving approach to God, reality, and ourselves less conditional.  Namely, we can take it as an opportunity to make our love more unconditional. 

Often, when apparent injustice happens, we stop appreciating God, reality, and ourselves, stopping our responding to these within ourselves in a nurturing manner.  This self-destructive and maladaptive response of ours cuts our awareness off from an important Source of nurturing.  Furthermore, less cosmically, whenever anyone does something to us that is unjust, unfair, or even if we just do not like it, we respond similarly, not only cutting off a nurturing and loving feeling toward them, but toward our own feelings too.  This becomes especially destructive if we are parents, because our children then learn how to respond to God, reality and themselves and others in this self-destructive and maladaptive manner as well.  So, in brief, when an apparent injustice occurs, we can take it as an opportunity to decrease the conditions that we habitually and largely unconsciously place on our love. 

In addition, in spite of the fear, and sometimes, even anger, that those folks have who have never successfully taken such an opportunity to love more unconditionally - the fear that by loving more unconditionally we will necessarily be unable to act to change unjust situations, or anger that we appear to be advocating passivity in the face of injustice - the fact is that such an embrace of relatively unconditional love, as I have described it, actually facilitates constructive and wise action in the face of injustice, whenever such action is feasible.”