Crucified love

Apr 11, 2022 12:05 am

ON the wall of the imperial palace on the Palatine Hill in Rome, there is a crude drawing of a 'T,' obviously a cross, on which hangs a man with the head of a donkey, with the words: 'Alexamenos worshiping his god' — obviously meant to ridicule the Christian faith in a 'crucified God.'

It has not become any easier for us today to understand how the son of God, co-eternal with the father, could hang on the cross in the most shameful kind of death.

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