November 14, 2017
Received today from Martha's Catholic priest friend"
Indignation over monuments to historical figures is beginning to turn into a kind of blind hysteria. In America, the Confederate dead, former Supreme Court justices, Christopher Columbus, and even the 19th-century physician known as the "father of gynecology†are all in the crosshairs. In Germany, some have called for removing statues of Martin Luther because of his anti-Semitism. Implicit in all this is a certain naiveté and presumption: if we had been around back then, we would not have committed those offenses. Jesus’ words to the scribes and Pharisees, however, is a remedy for that kind of self-righteous, simplistic thinking.
The scribes and Pharisees, the religious elite of first-century Judaism, believed themselves the heirs of righteous forefathers. Jesus speaks directly to this presumption:
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, "If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.†Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? (Matt. 23:29-33)
The scribes and Pharisees, in self-righteousness, assert that if they had lived then, they would never have done such wicked deeds.
So it is with our own generation. We sit in judgment over past generations with an air of self-satisfaction about our current enlightened moment, clearly the most virtuous of all that preceded it. Previous generations – and certainly those responsible for the discovery, founding, and early preservation of our nation – were ignorant, superstitious, and immoral. We are scientific, realistic, and wise. We watch films about racial or social injustice like Selma or 12 Years a Slave and rarely imagine ourselves to be just as capable of prejudice or moral evil.
The truth is that if we had been presented with the same challenges as our forefathers, most of us would probably have made the same errors. It is the natural human tendency to try to fit in with the group, to go with the flow, to conform, and to avoid risking persecution or ostracization. Few people in any generation take the right, proper moral imperative, precisely because the consequences are typically so dire. Those who do are rightly deemed saints by the Church. This is precisely why the prophets of the Old Testament were always in the minority against a sluggish, selfish majority.
The entire article is found at: https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/11/12/jesus-and-historical-revisionism/
A NOTE FROM JACK KEMP:
In Germany, some have called for removing statues of Martin Luther because of his anti-Semitism. Implicit in all this is a certain naiveté and presumption: if we had been around back then, we would not have committed those offenses.
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