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    Resurrect forgiveness

    Sep 30, 2021 3 minutes

    IN CHINA, THEY HAVE rewritten the story of the woman taken in adultery. It’s among Christ’s most iconic parables, but the Chinese Communist Party have creatively gone to the trouble of improving it.

    It begins the way we would expect. “The crowd wanted to stone the woman to death as per their law. But Jesus said, ‘Let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone.’ Hearing this, they slipped away one by one.”

    But then it takes an unexpected twist. “When the crowd

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