Untangling Cliché: "Grace"

To understand the Protestant notion of grace (and the Catholic one, I think) you have to engage in a delicate mental exercise.

I say it's delicate: it asks you to engage in a rather refined form of self-hatred in which you do not admit that you are engaging in self-hatred but rather sober judgment of yourself as a creature devoid of worth until infused with this ghostly grace.

I might as well come out and say, I don't think that's what you are.

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