When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it you, you disturber of Israel?” He answered, “It is not I who disturb Israel, but you and your father’s house, by forsaking the commands of the Lord and you by following the Baals. (1 Kings 18:17-18)
When people who seek to remake morality to make their own vices seem acceptable, they try to accuse the people standing up for the traditional morality of being disruptive to the moral order.
But in fact, it is not the defenders who seek to disrupt or impose. It is those who disobey and try to impose their disobedience as the new normal who disturb the land.
These people who try to remake morality try to cast themselves as the aggrieved party, defending themselves from injustice. But they are in fact the aggressors, imposing and disrupting. They are the ones who behave in the way they accuse us of acting.
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