Mocking God.

¹² So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
¹³ Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for [so] I am.
¹⁴ If I then, [your] Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. ~ The Gospel according to St John, Chapter 13

When the Christ washed the feet of His disciples, and exhorted them to wash each others' feet, He did it to set an example for them and, hopefully, for them to set an example for all Christians. Of course, the disciples might not have had to anticipate the lawyers of the twenty first century like me, who hearken to St Paul's First Epistle to Timothy in which he declares

But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine...

Therefore, we are prepared to see the sinister parts of the Christ's commission to His disciples. Our Earthly "masters" and "lords" have not washed our feet; they have instead, vomitted all over our shoes and exhorted us to wipe ourselves clean. They have taken St Paul's message to Timothy to heart, interpreting it as a lawyer would: the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully. They have not used it lawfully, and the law is no longer good. That law, to them, is made for any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.

It is why you will not see them wash our feet, metaphorically speaking. They have become the Pharisees and Sadducees who tormented the Christ, making up laws as they go along that pump up their stature and debase ours. They forget the Christ's instructions as recorded in the sixth chapter of the Gospel according to St Matthew:

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.”

They shall ask, but I do not know if it shall be given. If they ask for bread, perhaps, they might actually get stone. They have stomped on the graves of the dead, they have done so with cruel disregard. Their public displays of piety are a great insult to the blood of the innocent that was spilled. The truth might never be known of who was or who wasn't responsible, but their debasement of the word of the Christian God might one day come to haunt them.

We might be a hypocritical people, but I don't think we have gone too far down that road that we do not have a twinge of regret about what happened to 700,000 of our fellowmen. Many of us regret the death, violence, rape, destruction, mayhem. Our hypocrisies prevent us from actively doing anything about them. But we resent being reminded of our hypocrisies, and we have ways of making the guilty feel our disapproval. To those publicly on their knees mocking God, that day may come sooner than they think.