The Sunday-school fairy tales never made sense to me, and I soon learned: 1) there is only one reality–this one; 2) this is a world of natural laws–no miracles, nothing supernatural; 3) our thinking minds, real but not immortal, are capable of understanding reality, and faith is the rejection of our means of living; and 4) happiness in this one-and-only world is our goal.
So Easter means as little to me as any of the other celebrations of any of the world’s other equally-untrue religions.
But I do love the underlying pagan celebration of spring and fertility and the reduced-price chocolate the next day. Like I said: happiness in this world.
(Radical-Knight: the word you wanted was “trinity”, not “trilogy”. I didn’t believe anything they said in Sunday-school, but at least I paid attention.)
The Sunday-school fairy tales never made sense to me, and I soon learned: 1) there is only one reality–this one; 2) this is a world of natural laws–no miracles, nothing supernatural; 3) our thinking minds, real but not immortal, are capable of understanding reality, and faith is the rejection of our means of living; and 4) happiness in this one-and-only world is our goal.
So Easter means as little to me as any of the other celebrations of any of the world’s other equally-untrue religions.
But I do love the underlying pagan celebration of spring and fertility and the reduced-price chocolate the next day. Like I said: happiness in this world.
(Radical-Knight: the word you wanted was “trinity”, not “trilogy”. I didn’t believe anything they said in Sunday-school, but at least I paid attention.)