--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert <babajii...@...> wrote: > > I don't get it... > How could Easter be described as the 'Holiest of Days?' > The guy gets crucified, by Rome and the Jewish puppets of Rome. > They later change the story to blame the Jews for his death. > Then they claim his tortured crucifixion is a holy thing? > Seems to me that would be the un-holiest thing I can think of. > Let's see if we can come up with some other 'Holy Days'? > November 11, 1963; December 8, 1980; April 4, 1968... > Religion, what a crazy thing! > > R.G. Madison, WI >
On the other hand - Do you believe in the idea of "archetypes"? You have here the symbol of the "innocent lamb", of complete purity, exposed to the ultimate in evil and the Negative. And yet, as Christians would have it, the apparently defeated, "weak" victim comes out triumphant in the end. Perhaps the success of Christianity could be due to a resonance with some such archetype in our collective unconscious? Just trying to understand...
