A House Divided Cannot Stand: Or When Jesus Was Accused of Being His Own Enemy Because Of "Reasons"
These days, it seems some people, namely those who riot, loot, and commit crimes in places where the police are punished for daring to remind them such acts are illegal, think bad is good and good is bad.
They claim they are justified in doing so because they are angry at being mistreated, but I don't see how rioting, looting and making a mockery of the law fix any of their problems. To date, they have yet to explain how abolishing the rule of law is going to fix society beyond some asinine logic that the police is a cure worse than the disease, so if we get rid of them, then we'll be better off.
When you ask how they can guarantee this, their answer boils down to (assuming they bother to be civil about it) "trust me on this". As we've seen, in areas where they basically got their way like that laughable hippie commune in Seattle Washington they call the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ), this is clearly not working, given the first person to establish anything resembling order, there is someone who basically went unironic African warlord over a place that literally cannot sustain a basic garden.
Then again, expecting consistent logic is probably too much to ask of a bunch of people who think anarcho-communism really can work when they are still leeching off the benefits of a capitalist society to run their phone and laptops.
It's on that note I'd like to bring up another moment of similar galaxy brain logic the Bible had when a bunch of Pharisees accused Jesus of casting out demons with the help of the Devil.
Yes, really. Apparently, Jesus was undermining the Devil in tormenting humanity by casting out his minions.
Jesus, like anyone else, facepalmed and explained how stupid that sounds like as follows.
From Mark, Chapter 3, Verse 23-29:
23 So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come. 27 In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house. 28 Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
Now, I find this a pretty sensible argument. Abraham Lincoln made a similar argument shortly before the American Civil War referencing this same logic in regards to how the nation could not permanently endure as a half slave and half free.
What prompted Jesus explaining their logic fail was this asinine logic:
30 He said this because they were saying, “He has an impure spirit.”
As Jesus explained, this makes no sense. If one casts out evil in the name of evil, how can evil perpetuate itself?
Personally, I don't have a good rebuttal to that, because there isn't one. As applied to the real world, how does ending the rule of law ensure society will be one where no crime is committed? How can one make sure the law is just when someone defies it's very meaning? How can man live in a world where money does not determine one's survival while still using all of thee advantages purchased with it to sustain themselves?
The takeaway is simple: A house divided cannot stand. Evil cannot do good against itself, because that defeats the point. An ideal society where the law is thrown out the window cannot work because laws are what holds a society together. Even Communism has the rule that "to each according to his ability, and to each according to their need", and if this rule is not enforced, communism is not viable.
So next time someone accuses you of doing evil to do good or something just as foolish, remember you were not the first one who encountered such illogic, nor will you be the last, and if Christians and the world at large are to be better than such illogic, we must keep in mind that the house of our morals and laws cannot be divided against itself or we as people and the world at large will fall.
They claim they are justified in doing so because they are angry at being mistreated, but I don't see how rioting, looting and making a mockery of the law fix any of their problems. To date, they have yet to explain how abolishing the rule of law is going to fix society beyond some asinine logic that the police is a cure worse than the disease, so if we get rid of them, then we'll be better off.
When you ask how they can guarantee this, their answer boils down to (assuming they bother to be civil about it) "trust me on this". As we've seen, in areas where they basically got their way like that laughable hippie commune in Seattle Washington they call the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (or CHAZ), this is clearly not working, given the first person to establish anything resembling order, there is someone who basically went unironic African warlord over a place that literally cannot sustain a basic garden.
Then again, expecting consistent logic is probably too much to ask of a bunch of people who think anarcho-communism really can work when they are still leeching off the benefits of a capitalist society to run their phone and laptops.
It's on that note I'd like to bring up another moment of similar galaxy brain logic the Bible had when a bunch of Pharisees accused Jesus of casting out demons with the help of the Devil.
Yes, really. Apparently, Jesus was undermining the Devil in tormenting humanity by casting out his minions.
Jesus, like anyone else, facepalmed and explained how stupid that sounds like as follows.
From Mark, Chapter 3, Verse 23-29:
23 So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come. 27 In fact, no one can enter a strong man’s house without first tying him up. Then he can plunder the strong man’s house. 28 Truly I tell you, people can be forgiven all their sins and every slander they utter, 29 but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; they are guilty of an eternal sin.”
Now, I find this a pretty sensible argument. Abraham Lincoln made a similar argument shortly before the American Civil War referencing this same logic in regards to how the nation could not permanently endure as a half slave and half free.
What prompted Jesus explaining their logic fail was this asinine logic:
30 He said this because they were saying, “He has an impure spirit.”
As Jesus explained, this makes no sense. If one casts out evil in the name of evil, how can evil perpetuate itself?
Personally, I don't have a good rebuttal to that, because there isn't one. As applied to the real world, how does ending the rule of law ensure society will be one where no crime is committed? How can one make sure the law is just when someone defies it's very meaning? How can man live in a world where money does not determine one's survival while still using all of thee advantages purchased with it to sustain themselves?
The takeaway is simple: A house divided cannot stand. Evil cannot do good against itself, because that defeats the point. An ideal society where the law is thrown out the window cannot work because laws are what holds a society together. Even Communism has the rule that "to each according to his ability, and to each according to their need", and if this rule is not enforced, communism is not viable.
So next time someone accuses you of doing evil to do good or something just as foolish, remember you were not the first one who encountered such illogic, nor will you be the last, and if Christians and the world at large are to be better than such illogic, we must keep in mind that the house of our morals and laws cannot be divided against itself or we as people and the world at large will fall.
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