Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.

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Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily,...
Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily,...
Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily,...
Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily,...
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The greatest obscenity of all is the death of God. If you have no belief in God, the crucifixion is irrelevant. But if you do believe in God, then the cross is so important. It shows that Jesus died for us.

And He did. He died for all of us, for our sins and our mistakes.

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