“Those among the rich who are not, in the rigorous sense, damned, can understand poverty, because they are poor themselves after a fashion; but they cannot understand destitution. Capable of giving alms, perhaps, but incapable of stripping their own souls bare, they may be moved to the sound of beautiful music, to Jesus’s sufferings, but His Cross, the reality of His Cross, will horrify them.”
Léon Bloy
“Woe to you, learned scribes and the elite— hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all corruption. You outwardly look righteous, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”
Matthew 23:27-28
“My name is legion, for we are many.”
Mark 5:6
“…the reality of His Cross, will horrify them…”
The cross is an offense to people because it says they have a fundamental problem only God can fix.
He fixed it.
Rom 5:8… “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”