The Peace Pastor  Pursuing Peace through Faith with the Rev.
Marty Troyer  Roots of Violence #3: Why did Jesus have to die?
How did the violence of the cross come to be? And how was it
that Jesus, whom we proclaim to be Son of God, came to be killed
there?  John allows us to sit in on a closed door meeting (John
11:47-50) of power brokers who choose the path of violence for a
specific reason. They are not choosing to be evil. Nor are they
choosing to appease a Holy God with a perfect sacrifice. No,
they are choosing violence as a means to peace. Same script as
Perry’s Texas (who will be executing it’s 500th person this
spring), and Zero Dark Thirty’s myth of redemptive torture.
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