The rainbow flag, flown everywhere in “Pride month”, is not what it pretends to be. Its ubiquitous success feeds off our naivety and gullibility. It presents us with the challenge of distinguishing God from evil.
Jesus never took it for granted that the Church would find this task easy. His own experience was set in the context of a desert confrontation with the Devil at the beginning of his public ministry. During these confrontations, evil lied to him under the pretence of offering good outcomes. Jesus was to later warn his followers not to take people and their mission at face value, since evil could be expected to masquerade as good.
