June 23, 2007

Luke 23:43

Another way to reply to the "how can you defend 'those people'?" question, courtesy of Woman in Black:

"We defend the people who are right next to Jesus on the cross."

- 8:34 AM

1 Comment:

Unknown said...

really? I hope we would not have to resort to OTHER-ing our clients in order to justify defending them.

I am thinking ethics here. The idea that we only know ourselves through the way we treat others is problematic in significant ways. Most importantly, for me at least, is that it creates social categories (i.e., race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.) in which we classify folks. And in public defending, such a philosophy can represent what we do as a kind of charity or gift.

anyway, I dig the gesture; I think anybody who asks the question in the first place is not going to get the plea to consider the act of public defense Christian. In fact, looking at the hisotry of Christianity, the opposite is actually true. It might be that Christians are more akin to finding pleasure in the process of prosecution.

2:19 PM

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