Jesus’ stand against racism and the hypocrisy of the elites got him killed (Mark 11)

Rick Johnston
The Agnostic Bible
Published in
6 min readJun 2, 2020

--

The things you didn’t see in the Temple story

“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in Vain”

In the famous story of Jesus ‘cleansing the temple’ there are two things on his mind:

  1. Racism
  2. Hypocritical Elites

In that order.

--

--

Rick Johnston
The Agnostic Bible

ex Theologian | Writer | Songwriter | Northern Irish | (h)uman(ist) | Startups | on the shores of Belfast Lough.