The Mad Crowd
Anyone who follows this blog or my other social media knows that the Danish writer/philosopher Soren Kierkegaard exerts an enormous amount of influence on my thinking. In a nutshell, he was strongly anti-clerical and anti-institutional while still retaining a strong Christian ethos, although he'd probably prefer something along the lines of "Seeker of Truth." He saw Jesus as the embodiment of Truth. The above quote is backed by Scripture. Jesus encountered the crowds and rarely did it result in positive outcomes. Once they wanted to throw him off a cliff. He fed 5000 but how many of those became followers? They were looking for a spectacle and to be entertained. One day, the crowds shouted "Hosanna." Next day, "Crucify." Kierkegaard saw Christendom in the Danish Church as being more geared towards the "Dom" piece than Christ. The same root word as in dominate and dominion. Attracted those interested in the accumulation of power, prestige, an...