It sounds like a truism until some damn fool Christian takes it seriously and goes to Nuremburg to minister to and comfort Nazis.<\/a>
\nIt is profoundly sobering to reflect on the fact that Hans Frank, the Gauleiter of Poland and a murderer of more than three\u00a0million human beings\u00a0was baptized in prison and, our faith insists, his sins\u2013all of them, were forgiven.<\/p>\nAre we ready to meet a mass murderer in Heaven?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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