Pilate In American Law Schools | News, Sports, Jobs - Jamestown Post Journal
This season of recalling the compelling event of the crucifixion includes the confrontation between Pilate squirming under pressure from the mob and Christ being dauntless with unaltered poise. Interrogated by Pilate, Jesus said, “I came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.”
“What is truth?” Pilate asked. Truth took a back seat as he turned to the mob instead and granted them their depraved wish turning justice on its head.
You don’t have to go the wildly lax southern border overflowing with Fentanyl or cities with sky-rocketing murder rates or uppity downtown areas where “smash and grab” thugs ransack stores in broad daylight to witness crisis. It erupted recently at Yale. No mob entered a building illegally or went on a shooting spree or smashed windows out of a posh residence on campus. It occurred in a large room of its law school. Enraged over a conservative speaker having a chance to participate in a debate despite having a liberal counterpart, the law students hurled insults, yelled obscenities and shouted “woke” slogans so abusively and disruptively that the both speakers were escorted by the police out of the building. The unruly brat-like “woke” outrage wasn’t condemned and disciplined, but accommodated and rewarded.
Moderator of the cancelled debate, Kate Stith, professor at the Yale Law School weeks later remorsefully reflecting remarked: “Law schools are in crisis. Truth doesn’t much matter. The game is to signal one’s virtue.”
If she’s right, then the teaching content at American law schools amounts to nothing more than just a game and the substance and significance of law and order, justice and truth are pitifully relegated to a pathetic trivial pursuit. In stark contrast, the Bible in no way diminishes their relevance, standing and priority.
Until the truth matters, law is up for grabs. Until truth reigns, mob justice rules. Until truth counts, chaos controls. Yale Law School patterns Pilate, at best, and at worst, models the mob. Yale originally trained pastors. Now it trains “Pilates” or if “lipstick on a pig” is preferred: virtue-signalers. Pilate, at least, had enough interest to ask: “What is truth?” Yale doesn’t seem to care enough to even ask the question. Pilate kowtowed to the mob and Yale followed suit. Jesus said, “Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” Yale tunes out. Siding with the truth tunes into Christ.
The Rev. Mel McGinnis is a Frewsburg resident.
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