Divinely-sanctioned political causes are pursued with exceptional relentlessness.

Evidence

Messianic politics prompt a persistence, an eschatological patience, likely to see its day in the political sun sooner or later. Political tensions of the time fanning the flames of collective narratives of national affliction and historical trauma. David against the great colonial Goliath. If God is thought to ordain a political outcome, you can more or less bet on it being pushily pursued, hardly ever for better and ultimately for far worse. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1479

Categorization

• CANDY: The final aphorism—if God ordains an outcome, it gets pushily pursued, hardly ever for better—is a compact, quotable insight.
• APHORISMS: The closing line reads as genuine advice-wisdom about how sacred sanction corrupts political judgment.