“Unfortunately, we have a tendency to over simplicity in narratingthe meaninglessness and insufficiencies that traumatize people. Handling the plight of humankind in a monochrome fashion moves us towards simplistic stories of atonement. Such simplicity and ‘sound bites’ may help us to feel more comfortable in communicating the gospel to others, but in reality they fundamentally fail to communicate anything because they are, in themselves, meaningless and insufficient, ‘thin descriptions’ that deny the complexities and subtleties und which we all live. We are far more nuanced as human beings than is often allowed for in the stores we tell about the atonement.”— Atonement for a "Sinless" Society, p. 97
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