July 28th, 2008
The advance copy of John Kerry’s speech at Yale Divinity School contains this line:
Somehow, we have to find a way to agree that faith may be worth dying for, but it cannot be worth killing for.
I think it’s absolutely right. We’re supposed to imitate Jesus; and though he had the power and the authority to do otherwise, died for us, so that we could be forgiven, freed, and redeemed. The Apostles died similar deaths. To kill in the name of Christ is something that - to be quite honest - doesn’t make enough sense for me to attempt an explanation. All I can say is that if you claim to be killing in the name of Jesus, you’re really doing it in the name of self.
H/T Michael Paulson.
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