1 AWAY WITH THE KING! CHRISTIANITY is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God. “Dear dying Lamb,” believers sing, “thy precious Blood Shall never lose its power, Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved to sin no more.” Crucifixion was a barbarous death, reserved for agitators, pirates and slaves. Jewish law cursed “everyone who hangs on a tree” and the Roman statesman, Cicero, warned: “Let the very name of the cross be far, not only from the body of a
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