To Illustrate: Atonement

According to a Ripley's column, there is a Shinto ceremony where people feed the alcohol drink sake to carps and then release the fish, believing they will swim away, carrying the troubles of the person who released them.

To Illustrate: Grace

In one of Bishop Fulton Sheen's books, he made an interesting observation about Christianity. He said, "In other religions, one must be purified before he can knock at the door. In Christianity, one knocks at the door as a sinner, and He who answers us, heals." If that is not good news, I don't know what is.