RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 13, 2020 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2020 at 3:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think that christians, by and large wouldn't. Christians today, anyway. It's clear that this is precisely what the authors ( or compilers, if you prefer) of the NT had in mind, though.
Like you mention, they run from this issue, but that doesn't stop them believing and affirming it as the proper and necessary state of affairs according to the author of the cosmos, even if it's moral poison. An escape from death and the redemption of our souls in the face of guilt is a compelling hook. We want it, and we do and agree with and affirm and legitimize and normalize bad things for the things we want.
If christianity offered it's followers a hamburger for the low low price of one tortured and executed palestinian, I'd like to think it would have fizzled out long ago...but then I remember that they grew in rome by handing out little cakes...so....
Like you mention, they run from this issue, but that doesn't stop them believing and affirming it as the proper and necessary state of affairs according to the author of the cosmos, even if it's moral poison. An escape from death and the redemption of our souls in the face of guilt is a compelling hook. We want it, and we do and agree with and affirm and legitimize and normalize bad things for the things we want.
If christianity offered it's followers a hamburger for the low low price of one tortured and executed palestinian, I'd like to think it would have fizzled out long ago...but then I remember that they grew in rome by handing out little cakes...so....
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