When power starts to rot, it doesn’t look like chaos, it looks like confidence, arrogance, and cruelty wrapped in moral language. This week’s readings strip away those illusions, revealing a hard truth: real strength has never lived in palaces or pulpits. It lives in integrity, solidarity, and the courage of people the system would rather erase.
Have you ever noticed how often the people with the most power insist that strength looks like domination, cruelty, or silence and then claim sacred backing for it? In moments of fear and instability, religious language is often dragged out to sanctify arrogance, excuse harm, and demand compliance, even when the stories themselves say something very different.
Welcome to Mythologizing the Bible, where we’ll be taking a look at three readings from the Christian Bible through the lens of “sacred myth.”
As we reflect on the readings for the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, we’ll explore how these ancient texts quietly but radically invert our ideas of power, revealing why integrity, humility, and solidarity have always been more dangerous to unjust systems than brute force ever could be.
In this episode, we’re asking a tough question: What happens when the people who claim to defend faith and morality align themselves with cruelty, exclusion, and state violence and ignore the very voices their scriptures lift up as “blessed”? Because right now, that contradiction isn’t theoretical. It’s playing out in real time, with real bodies, real fear, and real consequences.
