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A dish best not served
The desire for revenge is sweeping our nation. How can Christians counter this?
Is it possible for two 12-year-olds to retain their innocence in a place like Auschwitz?
by Erica L. Brown
A funeral director in Massachusetts is struggling to find a community willing to let Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev be buried there. It's sobering to belong to an ostensibly advanced, decent culture in which people find it reasonable to take revenge on a corpse.
And what is this about if not revenge?
I'll join the chorus maintaining that this SNL sketch is aimed at Quentin Tarantino, not Jesus, and/or at bizarre distortions of Christianity, not Christianity itself.