Charles Darwin has enormously influenced our country and culture with his notion of “survival of the fittest.” Some have taken his physical applications and carried them over to social relationships. They favor the rich and powerful over the poor and weak. This is far from the consistent teaching of the Bible and especially of Jesus who was a hero to the poor and weak of his generation.

God requires his followers to “love mercy”—to have a heart to protect the weak. Who are the weak in our generation? They are those with the least education, the unemployed and underemployed, the uninsured, the disabled, the unborn, the falsely imprisoned, the orphan, the poor single parent, the frightened alien and others on the lowest rungs of the social ladder. God requires us to have a heart for them. To want to protect them. To love mercy in the Name of Jesus.