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How Would You Feel?
As I write, I have not yet decided if I will publish this. Some people will be upset that I question the core of their faith. Hopefully this does not incite the very hatred I am trying to counter. If you are reading this, it is because I have decided there is hope that there are those who will take this as an opportunity for reflection, with a willingness to revisit a vicious common belief from a different perspective.
In 1965, Curtis Knight recorded a song, based on Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone (with Jimi Hendrix playing uncredited guitar), “that asks a question; and if you listen I think you’ll get the message:”
How would you feel, if I told you that your ancestors were responsible for the torture and death of one of their own great prophets? How would you feel if I told you that the blood of that prophet, who came to be called the Son of God was still on YOU, as one of their descendants, millennia later?
That is what I have to endure again and again, when the Passion Play is recited in churches, of all ethnicities, all around the…
