Father and Joe E454: Hosanna to Crucify — Fear, Power, and How Crowds Turn
About this episode
The episode explores the societal shift from celebrating Jesus to demanding His crucifixion, examining the underlying forces of moral collapse.
How can a society move from celebrating Jesus as Messiah to accepting (or even demanding) His crucifixion—within days? Joe Rockey and Father Boniface Hicks pick up the thread from the previous episode and go deeper into the forces that make moral collapse feel “normal”: self-interest, fear, groupthink, and the quiet pressure of power structures. Father frames a key clarification: it’s not certain the Palm Sunday crowd and the “crucify him” crowd were the exact same people—Jerusalem was flood...
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