own actions. This is necessary in order for their faith to be real--if they have no free choice, faith has no meaning. Similarly the fact that God may be exploited by the few only means that the faithful must continue to hold their faith until they prevail over the temporal evils of the few.
2. Dr. King and Bishop Tutu both try to explain the problem of evil and more importantly the necessity for good in the face of evil to their Christian African American and African congregations. King indicates that all life is interrelated so that we cannot separate ourselves from the evil of this world. We see evil all around us, and we have to recognize that we are part of an inescapable network of mutuality, as King calls it:
No individual can life alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. Now the judgment of God is upon us, and we must either learn to live together as brothers poor we are all going to perish together as fools (King 476).
King also emphasizes the sacredness of life. All in all, in spite of the presence of evil, King finds comfort in the ultimate morality of the universe. He points to the fact that Christ came to show us the way.
Bishop Tutu notes that the Church that is in solidarity with the poor will have to be a Church that is suffering and that then takes up its cross to follow Jesus. The word of God is presented by both King and Tutu as a source for liberation, for freedom through the Gospel. The existence of evil is a fact, and what is important then is not why this is so but that we seek an escape from it through the Gospel, serving as a tool to fight the evil that pervades the world. The Church, says Tutu, always stands in the world but is not of the world, and the Church has only one loyalty, that being to Jesus Christ. The Church has to preach the need for justice, for there can be no reconciliation without justice.
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