FOX News reports: Man who killed Jesus could be in trouble

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WinterBorn said:
I've never understood why so many Christians hated Pontius Pilate. He tried to wash his hands of the matter a couple of different ways. But I guess some folks need a scapegoat and Judas wasn't enough.
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It's almost as puzzling as rightwinger's hatred of Obama, isn't it?
 
WinterBorn said:
I've never understood why so many Christians hated Pontius Pilate. He tried to wash his hands of the matter a couple of different ways. But I guess some folks need a scapegoat and Judas wasn't enough.
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A good post for me to respond to on a Sunday morning. Most Christians view Pontius Pilate as a moral coward who failed to do the right thing when he alone had the power to do so. He caved to an unruly mob. His symbolic washing of hands did nothing to exonerate him of the part he played in the crucifixion of Christ. Now here's the hard part....someone had to fill that role. He did it nicely as one who wasn't a very good man to start with according to secular history. I can't say I hate the man but I do use him as an example of moral cowardice, of someone failing to stand up for what is right just because he was in the minority ... in some of my sermons.
 
Pilate had come to Judea and was politically immature. He deliberately antagonized Jewish sensitivities and repeatedly brought violent rebellions upon himself that he had to put down. He learned too late that praetors lose favor with Rome if they cannot keep the peace, and in fact caste it aside willfully. He felt that Jesus would either earn him the wrath of the Christians or the Jews, and the Jews were more numerous, so he actually went along with them. A younger Pilate would have smirked, and rubbed Jesus' apparent blasphemy in the faces of the high priests.
 
leaningright said:
A good post for me to respond to on a Sunday morning. Most Christians view Pontius Pilate as a moral coward who failed to do the right thing when he alone had the power to do so. He caved to an unruly mob. His symbolic washing of hands did nothing to exonerate him of the part he played in the crucifixion of Christ. Now here's the hard part....someone had to fill that role. He did it nicely as one who wasn't a very good man to start with according to secular history. I can't say I hate the man but I do use him as an example of moral cowardice, of someone failing to stand up for what is right just because he was in the minority ... in some of my sermons.
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I see your point. But I always thought he was just a gov't bureaucrat. The situation he was presented with was either cave in or face huge civil unrest.

But yes, someone had to do what he did. I always thought his placing the sign "King of the Jews" above Christ and then refusing to change it to "He said he was King of the Jews" was as important a point as any.
 
\\()// said:
You think each party hates the other?

Is Obama only hated because he's a Democrat?
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I am pretty sure each party hates each other, or at least those dedicated to a particular party hate the other one.

You have only to surf the political debate sites and see examples of Dems hating Repubs and Repubs hating Dems.
 
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