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My coworker Jack<\/a> liked the previous entry about the Passion, and wrote:<\/p>\n

Jim has said well what so many of us try to say. I guess that’s what separates the men from the matzoh.<\/p>\n

One minor observation in response to his comment about visiting Golgotha and feeling it, the weight of the slaughter. I was there a couple of years ago and there is no Golgotha. The christians built a church there. Actually, warring factions of christians built a pile of chapels there<\/a>. No hill, no nothing. Just rooms with candles and incense and red and gold fabrics and every possible bit of religious crap you can imagine. So no, you can’t feel it there. What you do feel is your wallet, as you clutch it in a protective grasp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My coworker Jack liked the previous entry about the Passion, and wrote: Jim has said well what so many of us try to say. I guess that’s what separates the men from the matzoh. One minor observation in response to his comment about visiting Golgotha and feeling it, the weight of the slaughter. I was … <\/p>\n

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