On Conformity (Answer to the 3 AD Hypothetical)

Happy Palm Sunday!

My apologies for being light with my postings of late, but my latest manuscript is due in a fortnight, and I have more than forty pages of works to work. My copyedits for the previous volume are due and overdue, and my available time is under-sufficient.

In the spirit of Holy Week, let me post for this week’s post a brief thought I have been toying of as of late.

I have outraged some of my non-theist friends of late, and while I am sorrowful for this, I am in no way surprised. It is inevitable; unavoidable.

Does that sound like an excuse? This essay means to show that it is not.

We  Christians are supposed to be outrageous. If we do not outrage the practical worldly thinkers (who have practical reasons to do and to excuse evil works) and the idealists  (who have elaborate abstract reasons to do and to excuse evil works) and the zealots (who do evil works out of wrath and pride, without bothering with excuses) why, then we are not following in the footsteps of Our Master, who outraged the practical and worldly Sadducee, outraged the idealistic and elaborate Pharisee, and outraged the angry Zealot.

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