crucifying jesus anew

“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning…” (John 8.44).

​Two thousand years ago the Roman Empire conspired with Jewish leaders to murder an innocent man, an innocent man who would become the founder of one of the great world religions.
 
The revelations that flow from this death are manifold.
 
From this death, we learn how vulnerable innocents are when they fall into the hands of evil empires.
 
We learn to be skeptical of an empire’s claim to a legitimate monopoly of force—especially the right to take life.
 
We also learn to be skeptical about an empire’s claim that those it kills are, by definition, guilty.
 
It appears that in the case of the American Empire, the death of this innocent man and the revelations to be found in that death were in vain.
 
The American Empire’s leader, Caligula (or should we call him “Pilate”?), has determined that he and his administration will conspire with the government of Saudi Arabia in covering up the murder of an innocent victim. By so doing, Caligula and his administration become accomplices to a murder. This complicity, by Caligula’s own self-condemning witness, is for the purpose of gain, mammon.
 
“Despite mounting evidence of the crown prince’s role, some of which the president has seen in briefings, Trump indicated that the importance of U.S. economic and national security interests — and in particular billions of dollars in arms purchases he said the Saudis would make — outweighed the need to establish whether Mohammed was involved and, if proven, impose punishment…” (Dawsey, Harris, DeYoung, “Trump defends Saudi Arabia’s denial about the planning of Khashoggi’s death,” washingtonpost.com).
 
Now, it is certain that this American Pilate never claimed to know or love Rome’s original innocent victim. He is quite obviously an infidel, as he makes known every day and every time he opens his mouth to speak forth his vile blasphemies.
 
American “Christians,” however, do claim to know and love the innocent victim, Jesus. Yet, they elected and continue to steadfastly support this American Pilate; this accomplice to murder; this criminal; this seller of innocent victims. If they continue to support him; if they do not stand up against him and hold him accountable for this crime, American “Christians” make themselves accomplices in the murder of the innocent victim. They crucify the original victim anew.
 
One is reminded of the original innocent victim’s words. 

"And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, ‘Are we blind also?’
Jesus said unto them, ‘If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, “We see;” therefore your sin remaineth’” (John 9.40-41).
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