Stoopid Stuff

Sorry, Easter will be Cancelled this year

They found the body!

Seriously, christianity, can we talk for a minute? Because this whole thing has been going on for far too long. Come on. There's science fiction and there's real life. Science fiction is fine, I really liked "The Lathe of Heaven" and "Stranger in a Strange Land". But you read them for entertainment, for insight, for pleasure, y'know? You do not build an entire worldview that includes, oddly, a list of who to hate, out of a sixteen hundred year old tale of intrigue and adventure.

Pay attention here, this is important. People do not come back from the dead. Not physically possible. In fact, that's pretty much the definition of dead. Not coming back. Sure, there have been cases where the person wasn't actually dead, and people who made the determination were just plain wrong, but I don't think that's what you're saying about jesus. It would be hard to build a worldwide cult around an incompetent Roman Doctor.

But then, it's pretty odd to build a worldwide, respected cult around something that every 8 year old knows is impossible. For that matter, I am fascinated how sensitive christians are if you question their two-thousand year old fairy tales. It's almost as if they know, in their deepest hearts, that this story is nonsense, that it simply couldn't have happend that way, and they'd really prefer to avoid any rational scrutiny.

So come on, you guys. Try to remember that you're grownups. The DaVinci Code and The Lost Tomb of Jesus are fiction. So is the Bible. So when you find yourself arguing about which work of fiction is going to guide your life, you need to back up and rethink. It's like a couple of fourteen year old boys arguing about Dungeons and Dragons. It's very important in their own little fantasy world, but it ultimately just doesn't matter.

posted by mikey @ 1:47 PM