Where is your outrage, Church? (OPINION)

GEVERYL ROBINSON | CONTRIBUTOR

Each day, I sit and watch as more and more people are being oppressed in this nation. Day after day, I sit, I watch, and I wonder where the outrage from the church is. I wonder if the same “Christians,” who go to church every Sunday have ever opened their Bibles and read Isaiah 10:1-2 which says, “Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.”

Woe to anyone who sits silently in the pews while injustice reigns. Woe to those who raise their hands in worship on Sunday, only to fold them in complacency Monday through Saturday. Isaiah 10:1-2 is not a polite suggestion; it is a damnation, and it is aimed squarely at anyone who remains quiet while the vulnerable are crushed under the boots of power.

Isaiah doesn’t mince words. He sees the powerful making decrees that rob the poor of their rights and that prey on widows and orphans. Sound familiar? It should. It’s happening right now. Unjust systems written into law are destroying lives, and the Church, the Body of Christ, is complicit with its silence.

How many oppressive laws must be passed before preachers speak up? How many more people must be evicted, deported, incarcerated, shot, or starved while praise teams sing louder to drown out the cries? How many sermons will be preached that are loud about personal sin, but dead silent about systemic evil?

Whose rights have been trampled on this week while you remained silent? Whose blood cries out from the ground while you pray for “revival” without repentance? Where is the Church’s voice when immigrants are jailed or sent to foreign countries or Alligator Alcatraz, when the poor are criminalized, or when racism still poisons every corner of the justice system?

And don’t dare pretend this is “just politics.” This is righteousness. This is justice. This is scripture. If you claim to love the Bible, then Isaiah 10 is your indictment. If you say you follow Christ, then speak up like Christ. Flip tables. Call out hypocrisy. Defend the oppressed. You don’t get to be neutral. You don’t get to “stay out of it.” Silence is not safe. It is siding with the oppressor.

So, I ask again: Where is your outrage? Because quite frankly, if your Christianity doesn’t weep at injustice, it is not Christ’s. If your church does not confront oppression, it is a whitewashed tomb: beautiful on the outside, full of death inside.

Isaiah’s warning still echoes across time, louder now than ever. The world is watching, and history will not remember kindly those who choose comfort over courage, silence over solidarity.

Wake up, Church. Speak up. Or prepare to be counted among those to whom the prophet says:

“Woe.”