The Myth of the Righteous Majority
So over the years, I have noticed the phrase "the will of the people" is often treated as a sort of "secular sacred," like a final, unassailable authority that grants moral legitimacy. The shorthand form of this is to appeal to "democracy." The ignorance baffles me. How can one not see the flaw in this thinking with the current spiritual and moral state of our country? In the pre-flood world, it was "the will of the people" that marriage could be redefined from the one-man, one-woman model to include more than one wife (Genesis 4:23; 6:1). God saw that "the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). Violence became the norm because it was an expression of "the will of the people." God destroyed that world. In Sodom, the "will of the people" thought it was acceptable to engage in homosexual gang rape, for the text says that "the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the las...
