8 thoughts on “Happy Easter”

  1. Personally, I’d think that even if you didn’t believe Jesus Christ’s life is one of the largest turning point in history. So much of modern society is based on the teachings/worship of Christ that it would be hard to estimate the level of impact without him.

  2. Thank you for sharing this Rand! I was brought up a good Christian in a good Christian family. I can even point to an ancestor who lived 400 years ago — John Donne — who was a thoughtful, brilliant defender freedom of thought. He was also a good Christian in a time when the kings of England — King James and King Charles I — were opposed to democratic freedom. King Charles I lost his head after being defeated by the forces on Parliament in the English Civil War.

  3. Rand writes:

    “Assuming it happened, was the Resurrection the most important event in history?”

    How could it NOT be, Rand? Dead bodies don’t come back to life all by themselves in accordance with any natural law that anyone is aware of, so Jesus rising from the dead *proves* that there is a super-natural aspect to existence.

    Now, just what that means in fine detail is open to argument. (I am a convert to Catholicism, and a poorly-catechized one at that. But at least it still holds, more-or-less, to the “old-time religion”, unlike the mushiness that the Episcopalianism of my youth now peddles.) But it seems to me that there is a God (or are Gods), and that He (or They) takes (or take) an interest in merely human doings, and actually does (or do) give a rat’s backside about us as individuals.

    That’s both comforting and terrifying. Comforting, in that (according to Christian tradition) God is *LOVE*, and so He cares for a sinner like me. Terrifying, because God is also just, and I *am* a sinner, with my own particular set of misdeeds I have to answer for.

    My two cents’ worth.

    Hale Adams
    Pikesville, People’s still-mostly-Democratic Republic of Maryland

      1. Rand, remind me to send you a pair of dice for a Christmas present this year, since I can’t send you a Planck interval.

  4. I won’t argue with anyone who wants to call the resurrection of Jesus the most important event ever. My two cents’ worth is on the incarnation, though. The God who created the universe became a human being. That frankly beggars understanding. Once that took place, all the rest (water into wine, healings, etc.) becomes sort of, “Oh yeah, well, that happened, too.”

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