When you think getting to the top (of the caterpillar pillar in the story) is the goal, you generally justify doing exactly what everyone else is.
You step on others, push and refuse to be pushed back, and so on and so forth.
By the time you reach the top, if you do get to the top, you are pretty much just like everyone else.
Sure, it might be nice for you. Lots of perks and privileges.
But you haven't made any systemic change, and while you are there (and when someone else inevitably topples you) you aren't really changing anything.
Its just that you're the one at the top.
Now, the path to becoming a butterfly is harder to explain, and I suspect everyone has their own path. But I do think that a lot about the Bible (aside from commandments to love one another, take care of the needy, etc) is about becoming butterflies.
It is a call to listen to that quiet inner voice, to open your hearts, to care for the strangers among us, pray for those who hurt you, and more.
The ones who think fighting to get to the top, to force us all to do 'what God wants' kind of seem to be going backwards.
If you look at where we're at after the last four or five years, people seem angrier, smaller, meaner, and pettier.
I think that's about as scathing an indictment of christian conservatives as you can get.
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