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Apologetics<\/strong><\/p>\n I apologize in advance I must confess No! God forbid Instead, Apologetics I apologize in advance for my errant theology, but I must come clean. I must confess that when Easter morning dawns, I will not be lit up with what I now believe to be misplaced gratitude that God was somehow placated and decided not to execute me for my unoriginal sins, because his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nfor my errant theology,
\nbut I must come clean.<\/p>\n
\nthat when
\nEaster morning dawns,
\nI will not be lit up
\nwith what I now
\nbelieve to be
\nmisplaced gratitude
\nthat God
\nwas somehow placated
\nand decided not to
\nexecute me for my
\nunoriginal sins,
\nbecause his firstborn
\nwas executed instead.<\/p>\n
\nthat unwitting
\ntwisted tale, or
\nso it seems to me.<\/p>\n
\nI will be awash
\nin joy, laughing at
\nthe ungodly notion
\nthat death\u2019s sting
\ncould survive an
\navalanche of love
\nthat buried an empty,
\nuseless tomb in
\nendless victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"