The term bureaucrats is generally used as a negative label, and bureaucrats are usually viewed as part of the problem rather than the solution to the problems in a society.
Theologians are highly regarded only by other theologians, and by those brainwashed to follow their teaching because of their impressive education, and tradition.
I am amazed how these two systems, one cultural and one spiritual, get away with controlling masses of people perpetually. It’s as though people actually feel a need to willingly check their mind in at the door of the government and the church. Then periodically the theologians and bureaucrats breed reformation and revolution when they get drunk on the opportunities that power gives and overstep their control of the people.
When common people have simply had too much . . . and react to spiritual as well as cultural dictatorships, both get bloody historically. But it also seems in every period of history, including the present time, that people think we have progressed to avoid the pitfalls of the past. We naively count on negotiations and diplomatic solutions to political impossibilities, while the powerful laugh and pursue their agenda. So we blindly plunge into repeating history at the hands of tyrannical killers.
And it’s not much different in the church than with the rest of the controllers of the world. In fact, the most powerful church leaders participate in appeasing bureaucrats and wannabe dictators. They believe themselves to be powerful enough to control the outcomes, and they have too much invested in their financial structure and in the dedication of their following to let go—can’t admit their humanity instead of their godlike authority.
There was a considerable period of time when the church did in fact have that absolute control, even over the government. The similarities between the church bureaucracy and the government bureaucracy overlapped until they became synonymous. The church was the government, and the spiritual well-being of the people suffered severely. The breaking point was the Reformation—and the church, the theologians, led the bloodbath themselves.
Oh my, we think we know better now, because we know so much more—superior spiritual insight that won’t let it happen again. Church leaders today, led by theologians, have so crafted a compatibility with the culture, rooted in money and all the stuff and power it buys, that they have become impotent to condemn evil, and then light the narrow way of Jesus.
That’s why America kills babies. Who is responsible for the current bloodbath of abortion (49 years, 60 million dead) and the coming bloodbath of tyranny?
That’s why America forbids children praying in school.
That’s why America forbids children reading the Bible in school.
That’s why America forbids children seeing the Ten Commandments in school, because “they might read them and might be influenced to obey them.”
“Evil triumphs when good men [Godly men] do nothing.”
“To do nothing in the face of evil is evil itself.”
Decide to stop depending on theologians or bureaucrats.
Instead, spend time reading your Bible and praying—very first thing in the morning, and the very last thing in the evening. Just do that.