The Bloodless Crescentendo of Judges 17 and 18

Jim Boulden: Let's read Judges 17 and 18. We can try to understand why this kind of kind of a bloodless crescendo of the book is there, he says. "I think the author wants us to be shocked by how callous and how irreligious these people have become," writes Boulden. 'It's almost like the author saying, look, there's a slippery slope beyond the fence that's supposed to be there'