The Sscape Goating Dynamic

When tensions arise, things go wrong, what do we do? By a basic instinct, we begin to look for a scapegoat. Very often it's a group of people. And the community comes together in a kind of ersats unity around their common blaming of the scapegoat. Scape ting violence, the scapegoating mechanism. What does jesus do when they kept on questioning him? He bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. The law of moses says we should stone such people. These are massively aggressive people using the law, using, if you want, the great tradition of israel, but init in a deeply disfunctional, harmful way.