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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page treats Jesus, Pascal, gratitude, and judgment as a test of humility, ending with a handwritten warning that grace and tolerance are lost when the believer judges too quickly.
Its strongest move is from bodily humility into critique. Kneeling and thanking are presented as the meaning of Jesus, but the handwritten 'PASCAL SAYS NO' interrupts easy assent and pushes the page toward a harder moral question. The closing coda argues against narrow religious certainty: when Christ is duplicated into judgment, grace and tolerance are what get lost.
The Differance stages Jesus against Pascal and then against himself. Find a place to say thank you is the whole instruction, but the closing Duplicitius Christ, when we judge this, we have Lost turns the page on the believer. The sin is confidence, not unbelief.