This is a continuation of what Paul was saying and was discussed yesterday. Most of those who are of the faith are not the elite. They are the common man and woman. They are not priests, or scholars, or nobles. They are the peasantry.
For Christ died for all: peasants and kings alike.
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
(1 Corinthians 1:20-31 ESV)
This is not the way of the revolutionary. All revolutionaries are Jacobins: they are radical, elite, and want to control power and force the peasantry to do as commanded for their own good. Spilling blood and destroying lives is not a bug, it is a feature. For they will boast in their ideology.
SJWs are not out to stop abuse?—?they are out to obtain a monopoly on it.
This explains why they so fervently and universally seek positions of power and to manipulate procedure to empower themselves. From gutting the right to due process in academia to making it impossible to obtain the identity of your accuser in the workplace, SJWs in academic administration and corporate HR are exercising ill-gotten power to destroy the livelihoods and lives of those who oppose their world view and odious conduct.
The organization they have captured such as Yahoo!, Twitter, and OSS communities are slowly dying deaths of a thousand distractions. Their specialty seems to spin narratives and organize against important developers who won’t carry their ideological water, or who oppose their encroachment. The best engineers in the world are leaving in droves due to maltreatment at the hands of politically-appointed executives and HR departments growing ever more vicious and unrestrained against employees. An SJW HR department, having gained enough momentum, will even strong arm the very CEOs and CTOs for who they are supposed to, at a minimum function.
The role of HR is to ensure that (a) the employee gets paid (b) workplace safety exists — most of the time this is industrial safety such as the use of goggles and workboots (c) ensure that there is no blowback to the organization if they have to dismiss problem employees.
Not policing the lives of the employees. Not demanding that the new leader has a cult of personality. Not censoring all. Not bringing in a new Jerusalem.
And not boasting of their power. For power is ephemeral. If you hold it, you will lose it. The only power and influence you have is that you spend on behalf of others. If hoarded: if, like many, you demand acknowledgement because of who you are not what you do… it will lead to contempt.
But God chooses not the powerful. Instead he gives power to the peasants. So that they praise God, knowing it was not themselves.
And we need to stop chasing the snobbery of this world, and be part of that congregation.
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