Thomas’s Reviews > Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration > Status Update

“‘Blessed are those who mourn…’ The mourning of which the Lord speaks is nonconformity with evil; it is a way of resisting models of behavior that the individual is pressured to accept because ‘everyone does it’. The world cannot tolerate this kind of resistance; it demands conformity. It considers this mourning to be an accusation directed against the numbing of conscience. And so it is.”