Listeners to BBC's "Radio 4" could be forgiven for thinking that an evil British Broadcasting Corporation programmer had substituted a wicked satire for the scheduled Lenten Talk. On April 4th, in the middle of Holy Week, the Very Rev. Jeffrey Johns, Dean of St. Albans, took to the national airwaves and delivered an hysterical, if not heretical, diatribe.
“What sort of God was this,” Johns huffed indignantly, “getting so angry with the world and the people he created and then, to calm himself down, demanding the blood of his own son? And anyway, why should God forgive us through punishing somebody else? It was worse than illogical, it was insane. It made God sound like a psychopath. If any human being behaved like this, we would say they were a monster.”
Across the United Kingdom, there must have been an audible sucking noise as people drew in a collective horrified breath.
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