Cancel Culture Crucifixion

This is a work in progress- but I had a uniquely different image of the crucifixion from the perspective of modern-day cancel culture. South Park did a great job illustrating the seemingly psychotic need for destruction lead by mobs of individuals towards a celebrity. In their take, it was a version of the alleged pagan human sacrifice for crop yield, but the architype of the bloodthirsty mob was expertly illustrated. 

Raising someone up to idol status and then tearing them down seems to be a universal experience, not unique to our time. Cancel culture is just the modern version of it. The intensity and tactics may be new insofar as the mobs are digital, and the suffering is social reputation and potentially financial- but the seemingly demonic possession and crazed desire to inflict pain appears to not be new.

This got me thinking of the crucifixion and a potential new take on it. What if the scape goats of the romans & jews being blamed for the events of that day aren't the full picture? It's been said that during Christs suffering the sins of all man, up until that moment, and all the sins committed since were what were being wiped clean, but what if it's meant to be understood in a different light?

This mob bloodlust explodes as a pressure release valve for any number of reasons (build up of sin, envy of successful, rejection of the good, rejection of hard truths). The routine was one that continued in an endless cycle of humanity, that Christ came to put an end to that cycle. The ultimate canceling of the highest elevated man would be enough, should be enough, to wake people up to the horror of the cycle. 

One thing (of many) I find disturbing for modern Christian behavior is the glee with which the crucifixion is often discussed. Salvation & Grace is unquestionable beautiful, but the cost of it- it's as if people would jump at the chance to insure the events of that day for their own personal gain. So far from the point of why or how that happened.

I'm struck with the vision of the cancel culture mob, the south park characters, the sum total of all sins in a non-linear time and the gleeful nature with which all of that was thrown on Christ. 

I'm also struck with the notion that the horror and magnitude of that event- where it was supposed to end. A society, culture or Nation that continues in these cycles- has the finger prints of the old world bloodlust. 

And you will know them by their fruits. Are those fruits the stones thrown, or the grace that comes with letting go of that stone?

-Coddington