Jesus came into this world, specifically to die on the Cross of the Roman Empire. He came to be die a death of humiliation and dehumanization.

And he came to live again after that happened. 

The Easter moment is the overthrowing of the violence and horror of the cross. It is God’s emphatic rejection of violence and alienation from one another. It is God’s emphatic rejection of revenge.

The Empty Tomb and the Resurrected Jesus PROVE that every human being has a fundamental dignity. Every human being is precious and known by name to God. Every human being has a right to live. No one must take that from them, because by so doing they are directly opposing God’s will for each one of the people that God has lovingly fashioned. 

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