{"id":70979,"date":"2020-02-28T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=70979"},"modified":"2023-10-19T16:07:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:07:52","slug":"cancel-culture-confronts-jeremiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/cancel-culture-confronts-jeremiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancel Culture Confronts Jeremiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[301,390,463],"acf":{"old_id":"70979","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":44911,"related_cahpter":"426","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"It turns out that denial flows in Judah as well\r\n\r\n","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This chapter exposes our capacity for denying the truths that threaten us. Furthermore, it exposes our capacity for committing violence against those who express those truths. In this chapter, the Israelites, led by their priests (!) and their (false) prophets attempt to put Jeremiah to death for treason because he condemns their evil ways and prophecies their demise if they do not repent. The chapter further describes king Jehoiakim and his cabinet pursuing another prophet who holds a mirror up to their society, Uriah, dragging him back from his refuge in Egypt to execute him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than grappling with the allegations of these prophets \u2013 that society had become corrupted by violence, injustice, idolatry \u2013 leaders and their constituents respond by trying to stamp out the voice that adjures them.\u00a0 It is a common story: no one, no community, no society wants to be told that its basic conventions are profoundly wrong, that its roots have become rotten. And the desperation that ensues to do everything but self-reflect is typical. Instead, our shock becomes anger, and we launch our aggression against those who dare challenge the status quo in which we are so invested. We read their message as transgressing the ethics of group loyalty instead of considering the ethics they are actually bringing to light.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be sure, there are softer, more diplomatic ways to challenge a society than Jeremiah used, and there were prophets who employed such approaches (recall, for instance, Natan\u2019s parable to King David about Bathsheba. That was remarkably effective as a rhetorical\/ pedagogical strategy, as it allowed David to lower his guard and to empathize with his victims).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, false prophets\u00a0do\u00a0exist\u00a0\u2013 people whose screeds are\u00a0primarily\u00a0fueled by animosity, greed or ego\u00a0rather than\u00a0by\u00a0integrity and genuine concern for others.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discerning the difference between a false prophet and a true prophet \u2013 in both the ancient and the modern senses of the word \u2013 can be quite a subjective affair. But if a criticism cuts deeply enough that it brings out rage, it may be worth considering the criticism itself before taking up our pitchforks and going after the messenger. Because sometimes \u2013 even if not always &#8211; that rage manifests our innermost fears that Jeremiah and Uriah may just be right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: by Ben Schachter, after Giorgio Ghisi (Sistine Chapel, 1570-1575)<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":70983,"id":70983,"title":"Jer26-ProphetJeremiahGiorgioGhisislilicencedunderCC01.0","filename":"Jer26-ProphetJeremiahGiorgioGhisislilicencedunderCC01.0-1.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jer26-ProphetJeremiahGiorgioGhisislilicencedunderCC01.0-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/cancel-culture-confronts-jeremiah\/jer26-prophetjeremiahgiorgioghisislilicencedundercc01-0\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer26-prophetjeremiahgiorgioghisislilicencedundercc01-0","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":70979,"date":"2020-02-28 13:00:36","modified":"2020-02-28 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