tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28290082.post7352173383632383983..comments2015-12-03T05:55:54.838-06:00Comments on The Warp and the Weft: Avoiding the Passionchoral_composerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14273062476384355748noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28290082.post-61560990547306701452009-03-21T16:02:00.000-05:002009-03-21T16:02:00.000-05:00I think the difference in watching an execution v....I think the difference in watching an execution v. watching your loved one die is that at an execution one is watching a criminal be put to death. As you know Jesus was a criminal, a deviant. Somehow watching a criminal be put to death is justifiable for whatever reason (probably associated with the execution of our own sinful natures in the process - cathartic). <BR/><BR/>It's hard to put the death of a loved one (as entertainment) in the same category as the exeution (murder) of a criminal. We love Jesus now (which makes him one of our loved ones), but then I would bet we would feel some justice in watching him die - or more likely we would ignore that it happened so that we could asuage our human feelings of guilt. <BR/><BR/>Camus' Meursault says, as he's about to be executed, that watching an execution is the most important thing one can do, and that it is a means for opening onesself up to the "gentle indifference of the world" which, in turn, is most comforting (familiar).<BR/>-from The StrangerGingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03488794307486861447noreply@blogger.com