Today's gospel is the 'cast the first stone' gospel where Christ forgives the adulterer. It is a lynchpin in Christian thought. Christ turns Mosaic law on its head and demands not retribution for sin but the forgiveness of it.--after showing how one can not judge another.
It has always been curious to me that the common image of Catholicism is the guilt it inflicts on its believers when its nature is the exact opposite. Forgiveness--and self-forgiveness--is a conflict in our DNA that even Freud could not solve yet here, 2000 years ago, it was all crystalized.
And what was Christ writing in the dirt and why didn't anybody tell us?
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As for casting stone, you picked a handful sayings,I GO FIRST.
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