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Between Text & Sermon: Ezekiel 34:11-19

ALL EARTHLY LEADERS AND THEIR SUBJECTS ARE broken and capable of sinful acts. This is especially true during periods of conflict, when cruelty and anxious power-grabbing can characterize a particular era. In his famous assessment of this issue, Reinhold Niebuhr pointed to the fact that human beings often make poor choices, especially when acting as part of a larger group. According to Niebuhr, "the limitations of the human imagination, the easy subservience of reason to prejudice and passion, and the consequent persistence of irrational egoism, particularly in group behavior, make social conflict an inevitability in human history, probably to its very end" (Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral ...

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