Justice & law

"Justice itself does not exist but it is something we demand and something that is demanded of us...justice aerates the law, turns its soil, keeping it just... [it is] a solicitation that everywhere exceeds the condition that reality itself has attained... laws are real but justice is like a 'ghost,' a specter, that haunts the laws, a good ghost, a caring spirit or guardian angel, whispering words of justice in the law, incessantly calling for what is yet to be."
-John D. Caputo from "What Would Jesus Deconstruct"

Creationism & Darwinism

"The Creationist position has long been owned by the Religious Right, and the Darwinist position by the Irreligious Right. The differences between these camps are intractable because they are meaningless. People who insist that the sacredness of Scripture depends on belief in creation in a literal six days seem never to insist on a literal reading of 'to him who asks, give,' or 'sell what you have and give the money to the poor.' In fact, their politics and economics align themselves quite precisely with those of their adversaries, who yearn to disburden themselves of the weak, and to unshackle the great creative forces of competition. The defenders of 'religion' have made religion seem foolish while rendering it mute in the face of a prolonged and highly effective assault on the poor. The defenders of 'science' have imputed objectivity and rigor to an account of reality whose origins and consequences are indisputably economic, social, and political."
-Marilynne Robinson, from The Death of Adam