[lit-ideas] Re: Passion and "the Arab world"
- From: Scribe1865@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 10:44:28 EDT
In a message dated 4/7/2004 3:47:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
But I don't see how this could be taken to
excuse the crime or to suggest that it never happened.
In the Christian version of events, Jesus himself asks God to forgive the
people who killed him, on the grounds that they didn't know what they were
doing.
So Jesus himself seeks to excuse the crime.
Readings of Christ's death (Paradise Lost, for example) further gloss the
matter by framing the death of Jesus as an essential part of God's plan for
saving humanity from Satan. It is seen as a necessary sacrifice of atonement
and
fulfillment of prophecies.
Eric
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