The spirit of Caiaphas lives on in every century of religious bureaucrats who confidently condemn good people who have broken bad religious laws. Always for a good reason of course: for the good of the temple, for the good of the church.
and there is a flip side to “it’s for the good of the church”…..how many tortured children were bullied into submission in order to prevent their accounts of priestly abuse from “damaging the Church,” how many broken women were used and abused and discarded by feckless televangelists, their silence bought with church money so “the ministry would not be hurt.”
most recently, the late Ravi Zacharias kindly threatened his many victims by telling them they had to keep quiet so the good work he was doing for the Kingdom would not be ruined.
the Bride of Christ is a whore, and we are all for sale.
