Resurrection Sunday

// April 3rd, 2010 // Spiritual

This is just awesome!  Thank you, Rob Bell…

At the heart of the historical Jesus story is the provocative, compelling, subversive, beautiful insistence that nothing can ever be the same again, not after resurrection.

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4 Responses to “Resurrection Sunday”

  1. Grays42 says:
    May 4, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    I'll also note that I greatly appreciate the moderators approving a comment that disagrees with the video. :)

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  2. Grays42 says:
    May 4, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    I'll also note that I greatly appreciate the moderators approving a comment that disagrees with the video. :)

    Reply
  3. Grays42 says:
    May 4, 2010 at 8:00 pm

    "Is the world ultimately a cold, hard, dead place? Does death have the last word? Is it truly, honestly, actually dark, and so whatever light we do see, whatever good we do stumble upon, are those just blips on the radar, momentary interruptions in an otherwise meaningless existence? Because if that's the case, then despair is the only reasonable response."

    You believe that a mind-blowingly massive universe was created by a deity just for our lives on earth, and look to the words of a two-thousand-year-old book with differing and contradictory accounts of the life and death of your savior as a guideline for what your sky deity wants us to do. You believe these things because, by your own admission, the acknowledgement that such superstition is not true leads you only to despair. If you are incapable of enjoying life for what it is, then take your deity with you to your grave–you will, fortunately for you, not have the luxury of being disappointed at the realization you have wasted your life in pursuit of your god.

    Since deconverting away from fundamentalist christianity, I have enjoyed my life more than I ever thought possible. No nagging guilt, fear, or self-loathing permeating my existence every time I feel I have "sinned" or that I am not following "God's plan for my life". I am a kind, reasonable, respectable, and likable guy without the dictates of a deity to tell me to be that way. I find that the moral guidelines of Humanism most closely agree with what I want my own moral framework to be. I acknowledge that when I am dead, I will simply cease to be, yet this does not fill me with the "despair" that you say it will. I am enjoying my life and having a good time with the few years I have on earth, while you are busy packing for a trip that you'll never get to punch the ticket for.

    The world isn't a "cold, hard, dead place" without your god. The world is teeming with mysteries that are just begging to be unraveled, of life in so many varieties it boggles the mind. If you view this time you are given as "blips on the radar of an otherwise meaningless existence," then no wonder you put your faith in a deity! You should simply enjoy the world for what it is–your chance to make a splash in the river of humanity as it weaves through time. Your chance to be whatever you want to be, whether it's a scientist probing the edge of the known, or a simple guy with a decent job spending his time with friends, family, the internet, and video games.

    This video exudes wishful thinking. "My god will obliterate everything bad and only good will remain." That's fine–if that makes you feel better, go for it. Just be aware that your superstition was founded in an era where such tales of creation, saviors, deities, and resurrection were abundant throughout the ancient world. Trust in that tale if it pleases you! Spend your life affirming and following such supernatural endeavors. At the end of the day, however, if your tale of magic and wonder doesn't pan out, you will have wasted your short years on this earth in pursuit of a myth. I find my life too short for such wasteful goals, and that is why I am an atheist.

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  4. Grays42 says:
    May 4, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    I'll also note that I greatly appreciate the moderators approving a comment that disagrees with the video. :)

    Reply

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