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Life at the End of Us Versus Them Quotes
Life at the End of Us Versus Them
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“Christianity is a strange beast. At its center is an ugly naked image: an innocent torture victim, pinned like an insect onto two intersecting beams of wood. What is Jesus doing there?
My mom tells me that I asked about this when I was very young. Mom knew the standard answers, of course, but could not bring herself to tell her perplexed preschooler that Jesus had to die to pay for his sins. I was too young to have gotten much sinning done by that point in my life, and the idea that someone else would have to have been killed pre-emptively to make me "right with God" 2000 years later--well , she knew there was no way to tell me that without some emotional and intellectual collateral damage.
Instead, she told me that God loved people so much that he became a person, who let himself be killed by people to show them that even if they did such a terrible thing, God would still love them. This was still a very strange tale, but it drew me.”
― Life at the End of Us Versus Them
My mom tells me that I asked about this when I was very young. Mom knew the standard answers, of course, but could not bring herself to tell her perplexed preschooler that Jesus had to die to pay for his sins. I was too young to have gotten much sinning done by that point in my life, and the idea that someone else would have to have been killed pre-emptively to make me "right with God" 2000 years later--well , she knew there was no way to tell me that without some emotional and intellectual collateral damage.
Instead, she told me that God loved people so much that he became a person, who let himself be killed by people to show them that even if they did such a terrible thing, God would still love them. This was still a very strange tale, but it drew me.”
― Life at the End of Us Versus Them
