No First, No Last
Everybody wants to be first; nobody wants to be last. But in Jesus’s kingdom, the first will be last. But wait: the last will also be first, so the first will be first again as soon as they become last. But when they are once again first, they will immediately become last again, only to then become first again and then last again and first again and last again and first again until everybody is so dizzy that they drop the very notion of first and last. Which is the point.
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. . . . They don’t want to give up their egotism, they want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
KAREN ARMSTRONG13