“If this is the cure, imagine the disease”

This sentence from the Gospel of John is so lacking in heft:

“Then Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged.”

To John’s audience of his day, they got it. To modern man, we don’t.

I think that’s why Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of the Christ,” was so significant. It depicted the utter depravity of scourging with bloody reality…

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Presidents talk about God

Franklin Roosevelt: [The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity”

Barack Obama: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”

Harry Truman: “This is a Christian nation.”

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