This Sunday's sermon is about the folly of law and order. One does not need to violate the letter of the law to commit a crime against the ruled when the laws themselves are crimes against the people! Take nation-sanctioned genocide. There are examples of rulers that made it legal to exterminate people the ruler(s) found worthy of death as a group or as a people throughout history.
Laws do not guarantee the innocence of the legal acts or even the guilt of the acts outlawed! Blind faith in religious beliefs many treat as ignorant superstition. Blind belief in one's lawgivers doing the right thing is worse than folly. Lawgivers are human too and subject to prejudices and passions that may taint their decision-making.
The Magna Carta was the first time the king was made a law subject, not just the divine ruler with edict power over his subjects. The first English Bill of rights was not formed until hundreds of years later. People have come a long way from worshipping their rulers as living gods. Maybe someday we will learn to judge bodies of law for justice worth, tyranny value or, anarchy sponsoring...
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