Did King Herod have a good plan?
As a Christian I would say that Herod had a plan that he thought was good by the measure of his own estimation and understanding of the times in which he lived. We live by what we know, a constantly harrowing existence that historians remind us successive generations later as the state of not knowing. Did Judas Iscariot have a good plan? Was his political opportunism or sense of social duty conducted in the manner of knowing what he was about? Your question is quite fascinating. You may not have planned it this way but it profoundly touches on the pathos and tragedy of individuals who very often react to their circumstances from an entirely closetted perspective of their own importance in the world. People in power often have a very inflated view of themselves and the way they react to their immediate circumstance, with varying degrees of insecurity and paranoia, which unleashes rash, pathological, intemperate, instinctive impulses to self assert, is to act brashly without wisdom. To s
