Scare Tactics

Somewhere in most churches in Italy (and maybe in all of Europe) you will find something like this.  Since this depiction has been part of the church for centuries, you can well imagine why Heschel characterized Christianity as a religion of death rather than life.

God of All Nations

Experiencing the power of pagan worship in other parts of the world makes it possible to appreciate just how difficult it was for Paul and the disciples to speak about the one true God in the first century Roman Empire.  The same family-civil cult continues today, as evidenced by this photo I took just a…