“As the climax of Holy Week and the story of Jesus, Good Friday and Easter address the fundamental human question, What ails us? Most of us feel the force of this question—something is not right. So what ails us? Very compactly, egoism and injustice. And the two go together. We need personal transformation and political transformation.”
As in the time of Jesus so is it true today. Peace through violence (Pax Romana) is the norm human of civilization. We are just now realizing that the experiment of American democracy, which we have thought to be normal is really abnormal in the matrix of human civilization.
From: The Last Week - What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem by Marcus J. Borg 📚