On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:00 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:21 AM, kerri miller wrote:
Last time I was home in New England, a rather enlightened and liberal
place, free of most of the trappings of religiosity, I wandered past a
couple debating whether Jesus would be upset with them for buying Easter
egg coloring kits.
Did you remind them that Jesus is dead and doesn't give a damn?
Of course, in their view -- and that of plenty of other Christians both freaky and not-so-freaky -- Jesus is very much alive. As to why they would think that Jesus would give a damn about them and their Easter egg coloring kits, I haven't a clue.
Lots of us who believe that Jesus is alive (in a manner that I do not
pretend to understand) are able to conceive of a Jesus who isn't Jor-El:
He is not the disembodied head of Marlin Brando, hovering over us, looking
disapprovingly at everything we do.
Even if one conceives of Jesus as some sort of ever-watching eye, I have no idea why one would come to the conclusion that He is a perpetual critic. True, the stories we have of Jesus include moments when He sternly reproved the "brood of vipers" around him. But those remarks were generally reserved for the Jewish religious authorities.
I do know that at the Lutheran school where my son attends, (at least)
one of the other parents raised a serious ruckus about the school's plans
to have a Halloween party, so now it's called the "Harvest Festival." My
wife, who helped coordinate it, referred to it as the "Harvest Fiasco,"
though for reasons unrelated to our freaky fellow school parents.
Dave
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