And for those of us who celebrate Easter in remembrance of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, may your Easter Sunday be a very happy and spiritual one with with your families (if possible).
For those of you serving the country away from your families, thanks for your service and sacrifice.
Most of you know me as the village atheist, but I do go to church on Christmas and Easter. I consider myself a “cultural Christian.” I grew up in the Church and had Christian education from Pre-school to high school, and even went to a Catholic university (Jesuit in name only really – highly secular).
I fully understand the orientation to life and am sympathetic to it in a way. So I don’t mind going to church with family and friends. But none of this appreciation for some parts of Christianity requires that I believe anything on what I consider to be insufficient evidence. I don’t want to have that debate here again; I’m just explaining myself.
This is in the same way that I can appreciate the Greek Parthenon without believing in Athena an can appreciate statues of the Buddha without believing in Buddhist metaphysics.
PS. I saw this artist named David Daribaldi at an Easter service some time ago, and it still strikes me as awe inspiring, albeit a bit overdramatic. Take a look; it’s pretty cool: