I’ve been reading and thinking about revenge,retaliation and hate.And forgiveness.
If we ruminate over past harm done to us,we never recover let alone forgive.
So the Christian Liturgy on Good Friday
If we ruminate over past harm done to us,we never recover let alone forgive.
So the Christian Liturgy on Good Friday
[now altered to be less offensive by the Pope.A little late in the day]
by constantly reminding us of the allegation that the Jews werer esponsible for Jesus’s death means we’ve been ruminating for 2,000years on this.And Christians wrote the gospels. a good few years after the events..the true story may be different.
But should we not in any case forgive ?
After all the Jewish religion gave us Jesus too.Should we not thank them for this?
Should we not have gratitude?Should we wonder at a God who needs his son to die anyway [it’s a fertility ritual I believe in ancient times?]And now foreigners and no doubt all Jews except Jesus,Mary, and a few others.Yes, when you mock Jews you mock him.He died as a practising Jew and many other Jews were crucified by the Romans.
by constantly reminding us of the allegation that the Jews werer esponsible for Jesus’s death means we’ve been ruminating for 2,000years on this.And Christians wrote the gospels. a good few years after the events..the true story may be different.
But should we not in any case forgive ?
After all the Jewish religion gave us Jesus too.Should we not thank them for this?
Should we not have gratitude?Should we wonder at a God who needs his son to die anyway [it’s a fertility ritual I believe in ancient times?]And now foreigners and no doubt all Jews except Jesus,Mary, and a few others.Yes, when you mock Jews you mock him.He died as a practising Jew and many other Jews were crucified by the Romans.
How my heart sings 