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Hearing that strong assertion, the Christian answers joyfully, ‘He is risen indeed!’
For us, Christmas is the promise, and Easter its fulfillment. The summation of all Christianity is Christ’s covenant in the promised transcendence of Man, all concentrated into one simple declaration – ‘He is risen!’ Without this, our faith is a fraud; with it, Christianity promises Man to become an unending part of God’s love of all of Creation.
Happy Easter my friend!
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Happy Easter all.
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And a Happy Easter to you and your families.
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I never understood Christmas as a religious holiday. I mean, as mechanism of retailing, yes.
Easter seems like the quintessential Christian experience, which I respect and honor. Even for non-believers, the message is quite positive and affirming.
However it seems that Easter is becoming more and more like Christmas with each passing year. Have any of you folks been to one of these kiddo ran, grab, shove and then burst into tears Easter Egg mad dashes they have around here and elsewhere? I was able to to talk my family out of attending one of these melees this year in favor of a more austere front yard hunt.
What in the world are we teaching our kids? My word, and what does this say about us when we turn a sacred holiday into the equivalent of Black Friday at Walmart?
I suspect that Believers would find such candy egg hunt spectacles to not be representative of the real tenants of Easter. I would hope.
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RyanM 1134am – excellent question. Our Founders presciently warned us that the nation will be ripe for its fall when we, in our public life, relinquish the religious basis of our ethics and morals. All socialist/communist prescriptions for ascending to governance have included the dictum that the people’s faith must first be compromised. For it is into that empty space that the new order will bring the necessary (secular) fulfillment.
The odd thing is that when that has been applied with various degrees of success (e.g. USSR, China), the newly imposed political creed has taken on all the trappings of religion, starting with the abandonment of falsifiability. America’s collectivists have long had their marching orders.
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