It’s easy to make scapegoats of ‘the other crowd’ and blame them for all our woes
We are forever spotting the errors and failings of others while at the same time living so easily with all our own failings and faultsIt is easy to look back and see the mistakes and wrongdoing that was done by our ancestors. In a similar way, it’s the easy option to make scapegoats of a particular group or groups and blame them for all our woes.
Remember the story in St Matthew’s Gospel where Jesus upbraids the Pharisees and scribes for their hypocrisy and vanity? There are brilliant lines in the passage, this for example: “Everything they do is done to attract attention, like wearing broader phylacteries and longer tassels, like wanting to take the place of honour at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues, being greeted obsequiously in the market squares and having people call them Rabbi.
What happens to us, as we mature, that we can so easily slip into the habits of the world and our society and have no problem playing the role of the hypocrite? How often have we at some stage or other spoken out of both sides of our mouths at the same time? It’s something we do. We are doing it right now and it’s not just the politicians who do it.
It makes life comfortable to relax in our own failings. And we don’t like being told of our errors and wrongdoing. Often the only time we own up to it is when we are caught. Would the churches ever have done anything about protecting children from sexual abuse but for the horrifying reports in the media? I doubt it.
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