In fundamentalism, which is surely a perversion of Christianity, it is the blood of Jesus that saves us. All his blood for all our sins, so that his death was, they believe, an actual substitutionary punishment for what we have done wrong. My parents with all their flaws were better than that. They knew how to forgive misdeeds and maintain their standard of expectations without taking blood. The cross wasn't about punishment for sins, it was part of what life is.
Life involves being falsely accused.
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