Utter Futility of Joining Good Friday Mob

However determined the "world" might be to expel Christianity it can never succeed, for every attempt to expel it reenacts the drama (of Christ's expulsion) which reveals it.

As a result, as Hans Urs von Balthasar puts it:

Christianity has received from on high so much power to endure and to be renewed constantly that it cannot cease to remain a continuous thorn in the flesh even of a humanity that has sunk totally into what is earthly.