A prophetic word

Gross quotes the philosopher Eric Voegelin, who writes that evil regimes are able to recruit “the simple man who is a decent man as long as the society as a whole is in order but who then goes wild, without knowing what he is doing, when disorder arises somewhere and the society is no longer holding together” (Gross, 156–57, emphasis added [by Rutledge]).—Fleming Rutledge, The Crucifixion, 582n21