Whilst not believing it I can’t entirely disavow the story. Must be the flickering embers of a church school education although I don’t remember anyone being that bothered then either.
I suppose if someone lives their life according to the commandments they won’t go far wrong.

I'd 'like to' believe as I'm sure there is a degree of comfort and certainty with going 'all in'.

Unfortunately much like other religions it just doesn't seem at all likely to reflect reality (in a supernatural sense at least), so I don't.

But still...Happy Easter!

100%. Probably the most attested to the event in the history of that time. Everything in Christianity hinges on that single event and it only makes sense if you accept that it happened.

If it is just a made-up event, then people were willing to die based on that lie and given the accepted norms of the time, you would not have the first witnesses to this event being women.

Jewish scholars dismiss Christ as being a kind of 1st century David Blaine but few deny that he was placed on a cross, executed and then, seemingly, came back to life.

With Jesus you only have two valid options. That He was he said he was or else a conman. That is it. But somebody died on that cross, was proclaimed as being dead and then appeared again not just once but dozens of times, to multitudes of people.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

I enjoy the history of religion. I don't believe in any of the miracles or in any after life, or any God. I notice the older you get the more you think about it.

Red and Blue Army!

I'm Catholic but not a practising one. I do believe there is something after our physical life.
Many religions take solice from this.
Death comes to us all and believing in an 'afterlife' makes that inevitability less scary.
The pain it leaves behind scares me more

Only Mr swayze knows the truth

But Easter is about a single event. One that changed history perhaps more than any other, whatever you believe about it. A man was executed in the most brutal way possible. The people who carried that out believe he was dead. And that man then, as had been promised, came back to life.

I am also Cathoic and not a very good one. Hands up to that. I struggle in many many way. But in terms of what lays behind it all then it's not about the after-life or miracles or anything else. That all comes afterwards. Easter is about this single event

If you don't believe, on balance of probabilities, that it happened then essentially our entire cultural heritage for over 2000 years is based on a lie. I simply cannot see it in any other way.

Now you can be fine with that, believing that all humanity is effectively predicated on the basis of positive founding myths but this particular event offers no real grey areas. The Messiah or a Madman. Binary choice.

Edited by Matov (15 Apr 2022 3.17pm)

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.