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Archive for April, 2009

This week is a total downer.  Rich and I talk about the new Department of Homeland Security Report.  With the broadest of strokes the DHS has attempted to paint all conservative American citizens as whacked out right-wing extremists.  As you know there are whack jobs in every corner of the world, but this report crosses the line by associating their unorthodox views with the majority of good American citizens.  Not cool.  This is an assault on freedom of speech and ultimately an assault on the freedom of thought in the US.  We are hoping for better things from America.

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We also talk about Steve Taylor’s ground breaking song and video titled “I Blew Up The Clinic Real Good.”  Although this 80′s music video is obviously satire, Rich and I both feel that the DHS should travel back in time and retroactively arrest Steve Taylor for this thought crime.  Bombing and clinics is not a joking matter… just try saying that in an airport.

This article has been floating around on the internet for a while. First time that I heard it, was from my Bible As Literature teacher in public High School in 1987. I wanted to get this information to you before Easter. Gives you something to meditate on this Holy Week.

A Physician’s View of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
By Dr. C. Truman Davis

About a decade ago, reading Jim Bishop’s The Day Christ Died, I realized that I had for years taken the Crucifixion more or less for granted — that I had grown callous to its horror by a too easy familiarity with the grim details and a too distant friendship with our Lord. It finally occurred to me that, though a physician, I didn’t even know the actual immediate cause of death. The Gospel writers don’t help us much on this point, because crucifixion and scourging were so common during their lifetime that they apparently considered a detailed description unnecessary.

So we have only the concise words of the Evangelists: “Pilate, having scourged Jesus, delivered Him to them to be crucified — and they crucified Him.” I have no competence to discuss the infinite psychic and spiritual suffering of the Incarnate God atoning for the sins of fallen man. But it seemed to me that as a physician I might pursue the physiological and anatomical aspects of our Lord’s passion in some detail.

What did the body of Jesus of Nazareth actually endure during those hours of torture? Read the rest of this entry »