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"Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her"
This passage is not an endorsement of adultery--It is rather a condemnation of prejudice. Prejudice is "pre-judging" people because we have decided already that they are guilty and need not be treated according to the Golden Rule. Jesus does not argue that she is innocent, but he treats her as a human being whose worth is not limited to her behavior. Listen again to the words of James MacDonald on the cover of the bulletin. "If you are wrong in the way you are right, you are wrong even if you are right."
By Shelley Lee"Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her"
This passage is not an endorsement of adultery--It is rather a condemnation of prejudice. Prejudice is "pre-judging" people because we have decided already that they are guilty and need not be treated according to the Golden Rule. Jesus does not argue that she is innocent, but he treats her as a human being whose worth is not limited to her behavior. Listen again to the words of James MacDonald on the cover of the bulletin. "If you are wrong in the way you are right, you are wrong even if you are right."