read this story <\/a>and then reach over to feel our daughter moving in my wife\u2019s womb. Makes me want to vomit, literally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhy did Jesus have to make such a horrific sacrifice? Because we are a species that does that <\/em>to pure innocence. Indeed, we do that and then we blame God for it\u2013all while saying we are fine and don\u2019t need help or grace.<\/p>\nThose who say \u201cThere is no God and besides he\u2019s evil because look what he did to his Son\u201d need to fish or cut bait. Whether God exists or not, it was not God who inflicted the crucifixion on his Son. It was us. We did it. We come of a race that looks at the beaten and bloody body of a scourging victim, trembling in shock on a cold April morning, and then twists a crown of thorns and presses it down on his head.<\/p>\n
Just for fun.<\/p>\n
*We* made clear the sort of sacrifice we required for our sins by our *our* free choice to inflict it on the victim.<\/p>\n
And as the monster Kermit Gosnell\u2013and the civilization that created him and many others like him\u2013makes clear, we haven\u2019t changed a bit. We require this sacrifice because *we* inflict this sacrifice on perfect innocence.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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