Dead guy on a stick |
4/17/2006
Dead guy on a stick
"Murdering tall poppies -- that's what Easter is about"
Not for the first Easter has Peter Cresswell's blog pulled out that full compliment of nonsense. I far prefer the characterisation offered by Tom Pain in his latest SNN podcast (which is awesome).
"I hope you all had a good Christian Easter, Jewish Passover, or secular chocolate-orientated long weekend".
But lets fixate on the Christian Easter for a moment for the sake of PC's dead guy on a stick claim.
"Just think, Christians revere Christ as their ideal..And then they killed him."
Everybody knows the Christians didn't kill him, and that any serious Christian reverance kicks in some time after Christ has gone, come back, and gone again! Just think.
"..his perfection was an affront to their own imperfection; his nobility an affront to their own ignobility...[the good] are sacrificed to the rotten, the constant to the inconstant, the talented and inspirational to the lumpen dross."
But that's not the story at all! Easter is about Jesus comming back to life, hasn't PC heard the rest of the story? Christ's perfetion, nobility, and talent could not be defeated. Jesus didn't make a sacrifice at all, he had just lived a life of teaching everyone about life after death. He lay down his life knowing he could take it up again- which he did. So, what sacrifice is being worshiped?
Yesterday I refered to The Passion (this is what Christians call the entire episode of...well the entire episode that was made into a Mel Gibson movie called The Passion actually) as a fictional film. That's all it is to me, a work of fiction.
However, it's a fictional story that Christians believe in. If you're going to hammer Christian's belief then you may as well consider their whole story, no? How would PC like it if his beloved Atlas Shrugged were attacked because Francisco d'Anconia sacrificed his life and generations of his families works? If you only know the first part of Francisco's story you'd think of him what Cresswell thinks of Jesus too!
The Passion is a good story for Christ's sake! But not if you miss the ending!
PC demonstrates that you don't have to have a chocolate-coated shell in order to be an egg.
Not for the first Easter has Peter Cresswell's blog pulled out that full compliment of nonsense. I far prefer the characterisation offered by Tom Pain in his latest SNN podcast (which is awesome).
"I hope you all had a good Christian Easter, Jewish Passover, or secular chocolate-orientated long weekend".
But lets fixate on the Christian Easter for a moment for the sake of PC's dead guy on a stick claim.
"Just think, Christians revere Christ as their ideal..And then they killed him."
Everybody knows the Christians didn't kill him, and that any serious Christian reverance kicks in some time after Christ has gone, come back, and gone again! Just think.
"..his perfection was an affront to their own imperfection; his nobility an affront to their own ignobility...[the good] are sacrificed to the rotten, the constant to the inconstant, the talented and inspirational to the lumpen dross."
But that's not the story at all! Easter is about Jesus comming back to life, hasn't PC heard the rest of the story? Christ's perfetion, nobility, and talent could not be defeated. Jesus didn't make a sacrifice at all, he had just lived a life of teaching everyone about life after death. He lay down his life knowing he could take it up again- which he did. So, what sacrifice is being worshiped?
Yesterday I refered to The Passion (this is what Christians call the entire episode of...well the entire episode that was made into a Mel Gibson movie called The Passion actually) as a fictional film. That's all it is to me, a work of fiction.
However, it's a fictional story that Christians believe in. If you're going to hammer Christian's belief then you may as well consider their whole story, no? How would PC like it if his beloved Atlas Shrugged were attacked because Francisco d'Anconia sacrificed his life and generations of his families works? If you only know the first part of Francisco's story you'd think of him what Cresswell thinks of Jesus too!
The Passion is a good story for Christ's sake! But not if you miss the ending!
PC demonstrates that you don't have to have a chocolate-coated shell in order to be an egg.
posted by Rick #
10:15:00 AM 
