Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to
compassion.... the compassion of Jesus is to be understood not simply
as a personal emotional reaction but as a public criticism in which he dares
to act upon his concern against the entire numbness of his social context.
Empires live by numbness. Empires, in their militarism, expect numbness
about the human cost of war. Corporate economies expect blindness to the
cost in terms of poverty and exploitation. Governments and societies of
domination go to great lengths to keep the numbness intact. Jesus penetrates
the numbness by his compassion and with his compassion takes the first step
by making visible the odd abnormality that had become business as usual.
Walter BrueggemannThe
Prophetic Imagination
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