...So with teary eyes they beg their beloved leader, "Don't go!" They weep at his cross. For anyone with a sense of tenderness, "The Dark Knight's" ending will be a shadow. He bears on his back the bad news of human nature. They couldn't handle the truth. Not the truth of Harvey Dent's guilt, nor the truth of our own. Why do we kill our saviors. Is our self-image worth it? Is Gotham's darkness ever going to go? But when it's messiah must take the guilt of the transgressors among them, what does that say about us? It says we could handle the truth we wanted to hear; we could only take what justified our existence. if it made us right. If it cleared our conscience. If it met our deepest needs. Would we relinquish all that to make ourselves saviors? What if we could only have one? Either we'd admit our human nature and receive the savior or condemn ourselves by shunning his truth. Are we good enough to save ourselves or do we need our own "dark knight"?
Just like the apostles, we beg Jesus not to die. If he does it, we must too! "Please, don't save us through your death. If you do, we must save others by dying as well. I don't want to die!" Jesus' death, though a death to us, is our only assurance for an abundant life. And we face these opposites as well. To us they translate as such:
1) Wanting to accept the love that saves me but deny the same love that witnesses to my fallen human nature;
2) Wanting the man that saves but fearing having to tread the road he walked.
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