{"id":2883,"date":"2011-09-15T22:20:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T04:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marccardaronella.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2011-09-19T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T02:30:07","slug":"what-the-triumph-of-the-cross-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marccardaronella.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/what-the-triumph-of-the-cross-is-not\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Triumph of the Cross is Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yesterday was\u00a0the Feast of\u00a0the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.<\/p>\n

This is a big deal in my world because it’s\u00a0the feast day for my parish.<\/p>\n

So, because it’s my job to find cool stuff to share (I like that part of my work), I went looking for cool quotes on the Feast of the Holy Cross.<\/p>\n

Here’s an amazing post I found by Fr. Barron about the Triumph of the Cross<\/a>.
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The Cross: Cosmic child abuse?<\/span><\/p>\n

In this post Fr. Barron writes:<\/p>\n

“There is a terrible interpretation of the cross that has, unfortunately, infected the minds of many Christians. This is the view that the bloody sacrifice of the Son on the cross was \u201csatisfying\u201d to the Father, and appeasement of a God infinitely angry at sinful humanity. In this reading, the crucified Jesus is like a child hurled into the fiery mouth of a pagan divinity in order to assuage its wrath. It is no wonder that many, formed by this cruel theology, find the Christian doctrine of the cross hard to accept: I once heard the objection that this sacrifice of the Son to the Father constitutes an act of cosmic child abuse.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Double Imputation: Just say no!<\/h2>\n