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The Crucifixion is Christ's dying for men precisely because men are not worth dying for, to make them worth it.
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The Crucifixion is an event where what dies on the cross is the God of the beyond itself. That means, what dies on the cross is precisely this idea of God as a secret master up there who, no matter how bad things look down here on earth, he pulls the strings and guarantees that everything will end well.
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The Crucifixion is an historical event (because even if Jesus weren't crucified a lot of other people were)... but as an historical event it's impotent: only as a myth does it have the power to confront us.
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The Crucifixion is not martyrdom simply by virtue of dying in agony upon a cross. He must first will his own execution.
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