"When a good man or woman stumbles, we say, 'I knew it all along,' and when a bad one has a gracious moment, we sneer at the hypocrisy. It is as if there is nothing to mourn or to admire, only a hidden narrative now and then apparent through the false, surface narrative. And the hidden narrative, because it is ugly and sinister, is therefore true."
Marilynne Robinson, The Death Of Adam, page 78.
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spot on
I read once, a long time ago, in one of CS Lewis's works, that a man reported he had seen Hitler. When asked what Hitler looked like, he replied along these lines: Hitler looked like everyone-he looked like Christ. I was floored by this thought-still am-that someone who had every reason to hate him was able to see Jesus in this evil man.
Your post brought this to mind, that we are all under the same curse, and when we judge another we are judging ourselves.
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