Thursday, March 20, 2008
Good Friday/Easter
Well, it's pretty obvious I'm going to hell thinking about this, but I really don't see the big deal about this holiday. Friday is supposed to commemorate the death of Jesus and then Sunday he comes back to life. As I understand it, one of the basic tenets of Christianity is that God gave his kid's life for us. My question is why is that a big deal?
If it was you who gave up your kids life (I don't have one to give up) for someone, that would be a big deal. After all, once your kid is gone, it's gone. God, on the other hand, is immortal and always been and always will be. I'm guessing that's genetic so so is his kid - Jesus. Which means that God lets his kid die for three days and suffers for a couple of weeks, knowing all the time Jesus will be coming back to life shortly.
Since he always has been and always will be, it seems to me that a couple of weeks of pain and agony and then three days dead, isn't such a big deal. There's a lot, too many actually, mortals who if they only had to suffer for a couple of weeks, would be ecstatic. Honestly, compared to mortals in places like Treblinka under Hitler, Cambodia under Pol Pot, European pagans under the Inquisition, Iraqis under Saddam and Nanking under the Japanese, and too many more to mention, Jesus had it pretty easy.
Now if God decided to let kids be born without birth defects, that would impress me. But giving up his kid for three days out of an infinite life - I don't think so.
