Role and Importance of Religion in the Slaughter House Story

In whom we have redemption through his body-fluid, the forgiveness of sins, according to the wealth of his grace. (Ephesians 1:7)

For the hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (II Corinthians 5:21)

The heart and centre of the Christian belief is based upon Jesus Christ's lost body-fluid at Calvary as the only agreeable substitution atonement for mankind's sins. The Gospel note requires this foundation. The Bible states the salaries of sin is death—thus every person living should obtain the punishment of religious death because none of us is without sin, since we are born with our sin nature intact. Satan despises the Gospel message. He realizes what the Gospel means, and his agenda is to deceive mankind from comprehending and believing so they can suffer eternally with him. While Scripture is very clear about the necessity of Christ's death in order for us to be kept, some believe this would make God a blood-thirsty barbarian. Embedded within the structure of the emerging place of worship is just such a belief. (Alan 132)

"Precivilized Barbarity"

Many in the emerging church movement would vehemently object if someone notified them that appearing place of worship managers don't like the traverse. They would leap up and state, “Yes, they do. I've perceived them talk about Jesus and His going to the Cross. They state they love the Cross.”

Some appearing place of worship managers do say they love the Cross, but an underlying topic is profiting impetus amidst them. It says Jesus' going to the Cross was an example of sacrifice and servant hood that we should follow; but the idea that God would send His Son to a violent death for the sins of mankind—well, that is not who God is. A adoring God would not ever do that! Such a violent proceed would make Christianity a “slaughterhouse religion.” (Harry 230)

Liberal theologian and pastor of the Riverside place of worship in New York town, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969), believed that the doctrine of the atonement, where “Jesus endured as a alternate for us” because of our sins, is a “precivilized barbarity.”

In his publication, The Modern Use of the Bible, Fosdick states that Jesus going to the traverse should be seen as an demonstration of a life of service and sacrifice and not contrasted with “old animal forfeitures” and “made 'a pious deception' performed by God upon the devil. Fosdick's book Dear Mr. Brown, he states:

Too many theories of the atonement suppose that by one lone high priestly proceed of self-sacrifice Christ kept the world.

Fosdick ends that statement with a pronounced—”No!” He insists, “These legalistic theories of the atonement are in my judgment a theological disgrace.”

Fosdick considered the idea that God would really drive His Son to pass away on a traverse to take our place to be the basis for a violent and bloody religion. "He turned down the biblical ...