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Sunday, March 23, 2008

Easter

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

Today is Easter Sunday, the day when, in the Christian Theology, the son of a woman named Mary rose from his tomb to again walk, for at least a few days, the soil of this relatively minor planet of a rather mediocre star in the fringes of a rather average galaxy.

It is a central tenet of Christian theology that this event happened, and the wellspring from which that splintered creed draws its ultimate faith. That this man's death was witnessed on the hill, that his mortal remains were interred, and that he was seen to walk among his followers again.

It is an act of faith for all those who call themselves Christian that these events, and many of the events leading up to it, happened. None of us can have any knowledge of the truth of them, only the accounts of those, his followers, who insist that they did. But none of us, now living, saw these things with our own eyes, were given bread at the sermon on the mount, drank the wine that was water just moments ago, or saw Lazarus walk from his own tomb.

We accept that the sun will rise on the morrow, just as it will set this eve. That in the coming days the moon shall once more wax and wane, but it will be there each and ever day. These are events we observe, they require no "faith".

Believing that Jesus was born of Mary, walked this planet for some thirty plus years performing miracles beyond the ken of even modern man, and then suffered death on the cross so that we might be saved from our sins, only to rise again to demonstrate the love of his father for us is, and always will be, an act of faith.