Combating Secularism’s Most Serious Sin: Indifference
http://www.antiochian.org/node/17217
Pilate’s Sin was Indifference
He washed his hands of it.
Matthew 27:24
¶ “When Pilate saw that he could prevaile nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, hee tooke water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see yee to it.”
That Jesus Christ suffered under Pontius Pilate therefore means also that He did subscribe to this State order…In other words the State, the polis, is the area in which His action too, the action of the eternal Word of God, takes place…By suffering under Pontius Pilate He too participates in this order.[7]
But it is in this participation that Jesus reveals that Pilate is ‘a bad statesman [as] he gives Jesus over to death… [he] cannot but, as a proper statesman, declare Him to be innocent.’[8] as Barth clarifies and continues:
http://www.thetwocities.com/practical-theology/meditations/the-banality-of-evil-of-pontius-pilate/
As a Roman pagan, Pilate would have seen his obligation to his emperor Tiberius and then to himself. Nonetheless, he extended himself repeatedly in efforts not approve the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
I get the impression that he did not want to execute Jesus but finally decided not to anger Annas and Caiaphas and the crowd before him. So, he refused to cooperate by sharing in the murderous passions of the crowd.
Every year, in most abortion mills in the USA, secularists commit murder against a total of 1.3 to 1.4 million innocent pre-born babies and cooperate in inducing the moral degeneracy of most of the mothers and others who are morally complicit. Dare I suggest that their sins outweigh any alleged culpability of those who refuse to choose and vote either for Obozo or for Myth Romney? Those who refuse to choose between such dreadful alternatives are quite unlikely to be secularists in any event.