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Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Crucifixtion
I do not believe that the average American understands the social stigma that was crucifixtion. (I also don't believe the average American understands just how painful crucifixtion was ... especially Roman crucifixtion, but understand it more so now in leu of The Passion than orginally). We are so seperate from the death sentences of the older civilizations. Today, we try to be as humane as possible in killing people. The punishment is more of simple death and the way that one dies doesn't necessarily reflect the character of the person. You either had to be the most hated type of person (or someone must really have hated / wanted to make a statement with you death) to have been crucified. I think the only equivilant we have today would be lynching via an angry mob. Even then, the horror we feel is more of the indencency in which the person was treated than seeing it as a reflection of character. Death by crucifixtion was more than simply killing someone. It was killing the body as well as the reputation / character / heck-even-the-soul. I say this because I'm doing research for my religion paper. Jesus was a Jew. To be killed / hanged upon a tree was the worst way to go according to Jewish faith (read Deuteronomy and Leviticus ... can't site the chapters or verses off the top of my head). Crucifixtion was the penultimate horrific way to die upon a tree. The more one realizes how horrid dying on a cross truly was, the more one will more fully appreciate what it means when a Christian claims that "Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, died on a / the cross for our sins."
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