Easter Sunday: Crucifiction

Easter is here!

A fuzzy bunny has hopped internationally and delivered sugary ellipsoids to the devotional and non-devotional alike! Yahoo for candy; the bunny/chocolate aspect of Easter is preferable to the horror flick that it is derived from.

On the third day, he rose again in fulfillment of the scriptures — they say….

Now, of course, I am talking about Jesus of Nazareth rising from the dead 72 hours after his brutal execution on Golgotha. As the story goes, he died, returned, and people went batshit over it. (Funny how the only provable aspect of Easter is the part about the insanity; you can’t spell crucifixion without fiction.)

Anyway, the story of Good Friday & Easter is a gruesome unprovable tale based on self-fulfilling scriptural writings that all borrow from one another, contain dubious authorial quality and contradict themselves at every turn. The writings survive with the power and influence they do, simply because they claim to be the word of God.

For every other alternately miniscule aspect of human life, everyone and their heavenly father demands proof through empirical evidence. Even if that evidence is only available on the very credible sources of stuff like Entertainment Tonight or YouTube, we gotta see it to believe it.

Consider viral videos and internet memes. When something ridiculous like that terrible “Friday” song comes out and the water-cooler is abuzz with how incredulous the vapidity of the song is, one inevitably scurries to the screen to see for oneself.

So why not with religion?????????????????????

Religion has subsisted so long because the very nature of it begets a close-minded approach to living. Grace through faith alone, sola scriptura, and other symphonies of total bullshit attack independent thought and preclude lesser intellects from ever raising tough questions or even pondering the more whimsical tripe that religion force-feeds. Religion is negative and nauseating because it actively retards human progress based on capricious unprovable claims that pacify the brains of people without the capability to think philosophically and ponder mystery.

A friend of mine defined religion so very eloquently when he compared it to scientific inquiry: Science is a question looking for an answer, religion is an answer looking for a question.

Thank you Thomas, for your brilliant summation of the mental slavery that characterizes much of organized religion.

The reason religion is so very dangerous (and seriously ballsy) is that it claims to have all the answers to questions it most certainly does not. To aver with certainty, to pointedly state as fact what is not fact and to believe deeply in the unprovable are three factors that essentially comprise this poison known as religion.

The swaggering assuredness of American Evangelism may be the worst of the batch, but ultimately, all denominations are rungs on the same ladder of falsehood. There are some who claim scientific evidence as a test of faith. For these people, even irrefutable scientifically factual evidence of a lack of deity would not be enough to quell the intense passion they feel for their creator. When I witness this blind lemming-like attitude, I truly don’t know how to respond.

Until the day this biblical scourge is wiped from the planet we all must share, the fight for honesty, scientific fact and truth must persist.

Enjoy your horror film, on this, the supposed day of Resurrection.