human rights and social justice

• wealth and poverty

  • 'it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for someone who is rich to go to heaven'
  • do not store up [...] treasures on earth [...] but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven
• UDHR


  • article 3 : we all have a right to life in freedom and safety (judaism link - sanctity of life)
  • article 7 : the law is the same for everyone, and must treat us all equally
• prejudice

  • 'you are all one in christ jesus'
  • 'there is neither jew nor gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female'
  • everybody was made in image of god
  • catholic church doesn't allow women to be ordained ; some other churches do
  • women cannot make up the minyan in judaism (changing recently)
• freedom of religion


  • everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion (udhr)
  • support other religions
  • christianity: some try to convert others (go, spread the gospel to all nations)
• poverty


  • lack of (access to) skills and/or education
  • low wages / high cost of living
• how they help the poor

  • 'if you want to be perfect, sell your possessions and give them to the poor'
  • Send a Cow sends livestock and crops (avoiding leaders intercepting)
  • donating money
  • food banks