We are all witnesses in the West. We bear witness in Christianity, that is publicly
affirm our faith. We believe, as the fine print in the Nike ad says. We must
believe in God even as we see what He let be done to his son. We must look
over and over again, countless times, at the imagery of the torture of the
Crucifixion. We must see.
We must be witnesses in our courts of law to acts of torture and murder too.We
are compelled in order to affirm our belief in the transcendence of law over man
just as belief in the face of the Crucifixion affirms the transcendence of God over
man.