Herod would solemnize the celebrations in the temple, because 'he' was the king, ie ie he too received some form of worship. Herod built the temple but attempted to kill the living temple. Fear of losing power to control can make the king arrogant, and he can even do away with God very religiously and legally. Any time in history, where ‘Rachel weeping for her children, sobbing and loudly lamenting, refusing to be comforted,’ they have come from the arrogance of Kings led by fear of their own power to control. It can be from the power of money, the lure of ideologies concerning progress and development, even in the name of freedom leaving the born and unborn children into death and misery. The powerful has the legality and piety framed in their favour, and the innocents get murdered. Even God had no escape. Though Jesus and the family could flee to Egypt they did suffer the trauma of meeting death.
Identify the cruelties wrapped within religious, devotional, legal interpretations about others. We are killing God in our arrogance in the name of laws, religion, traditions, and piety. Thus we are solemnizing the killing of God.
1 John 1:5-2:2 Matthew 2:13-18
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