The Judas Economy: Why officials profiting off endless war will never repent

The immoral act of the Apostle Peter, his betrayal, if you compare it to the general human standard of morality, would actually be a model and an example of the highest level of morality, honesty, and sincerity. Because what he did, in the common understanding, is not only not a sin or something blameworthy, but quite the opposite. Most people would say it’s an example of a lie for the greater good—or if it is an evil, then a justified and well-reasoned one—and would even start fiercely arguing that it was a necessary evil to avoid another evil, vastly worse.

But not only the Bible, but Peter himself—precisely because he was a highly moral, honest, and sincere man—perceives his own action so acutely and painfully.

Unlike Peter, Judas—a man without a heart, a conscience, or the slightest sense of humanity—is surrounded by such highly moral people and yet steals right out of the till. At the moment when a woman anointed Jesus' feet with precious fragrant oil, he says: shouldn't this fragrant oil have been sold and the money given to the poor for charity? And what actually concerns him here? The reason why he said this is written directly: he didn't say it because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and was stealing from the till. In other words, he was sitting on the cash flows. So all those officials today who sit on cash flows and benefit from this war continuing endlessly because they profit off it—they are Judases. Immoral and inhumane, with no heart and no conscience. And they will never repent, just like Judas.