Don't Back Down

I've always found it interesting how when you go to church (a Christian church, I mean) and the pastor leads a response where he says Christ is risen and the rest of the church says Christ is risen indeed.

As if just saying that "Christ is risen" isn't enough, he has to really be risen. I don't know. You'd think that someone coming back from the dead would be enough. Heck, you'd think that being the Son of God, born of a virgin would be pretty darn good too. Risen from the dead is just icing on the cake. That indeed just throws a big, whopping cherry on top.

Of course, you may not believe that there is a God, you may not believe that Jesus is His son, you may not believe that Jesus was born of a virgin, that He died on a cross for everone's sins or that he rose again on the first Easter. And that's okay. You are, as they say, entitled to your opinion. Whether you believe it or not does not mean that it did or did not happen.

And with that, I leave you with an interesting essay by Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert.

In this essay, Mr. Adams speaks to Respecting the Beliefs of Others, which of course we should do, right? What if their belief says that they should kill themselves to follow a comet (yes, this happened)? Do you still respect them? What if they believe in a Flying Spaghetti Monster delivering the gospel? Does your answer change in the face of these alternatives? Perhaps it should, perhaps not.

Happy Easter.