The crowd chose Barabbas, not because they loved him, but because they hated Gospel Jesus.
John 18:40
"They shouted back, "No, not him! Give us Barabbas!" Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising."
19:15
But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,”
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Bonus observation:
It kinda feels like when the second plane hit the South Tower or when you waited on the results of a biopsy and, well....you know....
6 comments:
Pretty good comparison. Following the crowd can get you in trouble. "How can so many people be wrong" is a common objection when it's pointed out that Sunday keeping is not of God.
Side note: Barabbas means son of the father. I guess you could say the deck was stacked against Jesus.
Yes, Dennis, you've hit the nail on the head. NOTHING about what just happened is Christian! It is a betrayal and rejection of the values which Jesus of Nazareth exemplified. It has, however, given me greater spiritual clarity and eliminated yet another illusion from my past. What happens next is completely predictable - no prophets needed!
We have no Palantír that would permit us to eavesdrop on the true currents of political power. So, we are left to flounder on with dead reckoning. This makes voting in national elections a hazardous business. I would be skeptical no matter who won the election. And voting is ultimately a prognostication. It is about a person trying to make a judgment on what a politician is going to do in the future. And there are no guides - not even past performance although people tend to repeat themselves. And after much banal cognitive dissonance reduction, we gamble.
Yet, humans are fascinated with the idea of somehow knowing the future. Some people, I found out in business school, look to Wall Street. For them, the stock market is like a secular oracle. They believe The Market discounts for all known phenomenon. But nobody’s making a killing off that principle. I think living into the future is more like a roller coaster ride. Everyone buys their ticket and boards up. Now for the ride. The roller coaster may run along pre-determined rails but nobody knows for sure what the track looks like from the vantage point of the boarding platform. The ride will be white-knuckled all the way. We may have just turned Barrabas loose.
But I am optimistic. If the President Elect is not successful by some collective standard and democracy survives, the American people have a chance to redeem themselves at the Mid-terms two years from now.
Scout
Trump is so funny and kind!
Is this a voting analogy that makes Trump into Barabbas and Kamala into Jesus? Double-fail. Barabbas was favored by more than 51% of the crowd, and Kamala is no Jesus, no matter how badly the MAGAs want to crucify her.
The analogy is the choice between a moral and peaceful person and an amoral/immoral and violent person.
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