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“Indeed, it is amazing that a religion was founded on the experience of utter shame, of a god that dies the death of a condemned criminal.”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use And Abuse Of The Cross

“Jesus suffered because he named the cause of suffering, the law that kills”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

“Christ is everywhere, closer to everything created than these things are to themselves. God's embodiment through Christ encompasses the world.”
― Vitor Westhelle, The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross

“The symbol [of the cross] often swallows the historic scandal that gave it birth and appeases the appalling experience with which the first generation of Christians had to come to terms.”
― Vitor Westhelle