Needless to say, I scored 9/10 on the MacGyver quiz.
Bibles are good for discovering the gospel and, apparently, writing down meth recipes.
Easter is really a pagan holiday. Yeah right.
I'm just sayin' (from Penn Jillette).
Fascinating Slate article on why commercialism has not overtaken Easter, as it has Christmas. Best paragraph:
Even the resurrection, the joyful end of the Easter story, resists domestication as it resists banalization. Unlike Christmas, it also resists a noncommittal response. Even agnostics and atheists who don't accept Christ's divinity can accept the general outlines of the Christmas story with little danger to their worldview. But Easter demands a response. It's hard for a non-Christian believer to say, "Yes, I believe that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, died, was buried, and rose from the dead." That's not something you can believe without some serious ramifications: If you believe that Jesus rose from the dead, this has profound implications for your spiritual and religious life—really, for your whole life. If you believe the story, then you believe that Jesus is God, or at least God's son. What he says about the world and the way we live in that world then has a real claim on you.
Easter is an event that demands a "yes" or a "no." There is no "whatever."
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