“But the most hideous and perverted difference is that instead of earning the right to keep the grace freely given by a loving God, a grace that sustains us in our toil and suffering, they must earn . . . their god’s grace (I can’t call him ‘ours’) through pain and suffering. Over the years, the bloody pagan rituals the Spanish found in this land twisted and subverted the Christianity they brought to such a shocking degree that even the meaning of our Lord and Savior’s crucifixion has been perverted. Instead of dying for our sins, to ensure our salvation, the brutal scourging and execution of
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