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In other words, just as Jesus, God, the Messiah, the Savior, suffered in silence, endured all the pain, respected Pilate's authority and hierarchy, and commanded his followers to do the same by paying their taxes, the slave and the servant must also suffer in silence and obey the social hierarchy given by God himself, for their reward and justice are in another life, not this one.
In this life, the obligation of all exploited people is to work, obey, bow their heads, and pray.
As Paul said, all authority was given by God, and every slave must obey their earthly masters.
For Jesus, God himself, suffered in silence and did not challenge Rome.
And so must all the poor, servants, and slaves.
The Catholic Church always emphasizes how good suffering is, as it is pedagogical, and respect for authority and hierarchy.
Well, suffering is not pedagogical. No one deserves to suffer. No one deserves to go through pain and humiliation to learn about life and become stronger.
This dichotomy between suffering and love is at the heart of Christianity. For those who love make others suffer in order to teach them. Love would be suffering, and suffering would be love.
And the praise of suffering is the foundation on which a religion was built that has a crucified god, humiliated, and bleeding in the flesh. For the suffering of the flesh would mean nothing to those who can gain heaven, true life.
Canon Three of the Council of Gangra (376 AD)
3. Whoever, under the pretext of false devotion, teaches a slave to despise his master, to abandon his service, and not serve him with diligence and all honor, let him be anathematized.
See Apostolic Canon 82.
