Happy Easter, one and all, all and one. A day to celebrate the death of Jesus for our sins. It's funny, a girl from work and I were talking the other day and she seemed to think that such a moment should be remembered in some kind of guilt or sadness... In a way, I can understand that kind of thinking. I mean, if someone gives their life for you, shouldn't you feel kinda guilty? Yes, but at the same time, I would think someone who dies for another people, or a group of people at that, would rather them be happy. I think the day is supposed to be meant as a day of appreciation for a second chance, one we've obviously squandered, if today's society is any kind of indication.
Of course, commercial America has turned "Thank you, Jesus, for dying for sins that were not yours, but ours and allowing us to pass on judgment this one time." to giant bunnies that give children candy, which in turn is really no more than a ploy for candy-corps. to sell TONS of product in the months leading up to/the day of/several days afterward this "holiday". I even love how some schools and companies will take off for this holiday. Yes. We must celebrate and worship the bunny. For he... He is our idol.
Um. Aren't two of the Ten Commandments something along the lines of...
"ONE: 'You shall have no other gods before Me.'
TWO: 'You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
Yeeeah. It went something like that.
Hmm. Guess we're all going to Hell after all :) Sorry, Jesus. We weren't worth saving the first time... Probably shouldn't bother trying again... As if anyone would waste the time.
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Actually, the reason why there is rabbits and eggs for Easter is the merging of the Christian and Pagan traditions.
ReplyDeleteThere is no bunny or eggs in Christian, but there was in Pagan. It made it easier for them to convert, and back then all they cared about were numbers, not accuracy.