Not that you asked

Not that you asked, but something occurred to me during Mass yesterday, when I was thinking about "Dying you destroyed our death" instead of the Mystery of Faith we were actually saying. It is a huge objection for many agnostics and atheists that Christ would have to die to redeem us, but as usual with most such objections, it struck me how very wrong that idea is. It says ever so much more about the state of humanity than of God that we would only finally and fully begin to listen after putting God to death.