The Good News
March 23rd, 2008 at 06:34am Mark Noonan
Now on the first day of the week Mary Mag’dalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran, and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
Peter then came out with the other disciple, and they went toward the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first; and stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; he saw the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, which had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not know the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. - John 20:1-9
Happy Easter, everyone.
UPDATE: The Pope baptises a convert from Islam - and one likely to really twist Islamo-fascists out of shape.
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25 Comments
1. Christian Wright | March 23rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
So the disciples went to look for Jesus and found him arguing with a large pagan rabbit over which faith would dominate this particular Sunday.
Jesus and the pagan rabbit struck a deal. The pagan rabbit (an important fertility symbol) and Jesus decided to share the holiday. And that is why to this day, we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection with Christian holy symbols, and the pagan fertility holiday with bunnies, chicks and eggs).
John 20: 13-19
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3. CeCe | March 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 am
HE IS RISEN! Happy Easter!
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7. FmrMarine | March 23rd, 2008 at 11:17 am
CW
go crawl back into your hole,
If this were a muslem holy day and you posted this garbage you would be marked for beheading..
We on the other hand will tell you how misguided you are and hope one day you to will celebrate Easter and Jesus.
BUT
you would most likely be kicked out of nambla.
8. js | March 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
More good news;
Scientist explains ‘global warming stopped a decade ago’… at Drudge.com
9. Casper | March 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
Happy Easter to everyone.
10. kimberly4victory | March 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
May the glory and the promise of this joyous time of year bring peace and happiness to you and those you hold most dear,
And may Christ, our risen Savior, always be there by your side to bless you most abundantly and be your loving guide.
He is risen indeed! God bless everyone! And, Lord, please forgive those who feel the need to poke fun at another’s religion.
11. Almiranta | March 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
It is one thing to be without faith. It is quite another to feel the right to snicker and sneer at those who have it.
It is not just the intellectual paucity of so many who post here that is sad, it is the moral and ethical vaccum in which they choose to exist. For some it is a choice—for some it is just a stage of juvenile arrogance.
While we give thanks for the gift of faith, we can also feel pity for those who find it darling and clever to engage in smirky snickery sniping at those so blessed.
12. Mark Noonan | March 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Almiranta,
True - and last night I watched 8 people be baptised, including a good friend, and to see such faith makes all the snide remarks in the world fade into nothing…
13. LiberalNitemare | March 23rd, 2008 at 5:43 pm
CW overlooks an important distinction as he tries to offend as many people as possible by linking the Easter clebraton with his pagen bunny rabbit.
Christians do not worship the easter bunny.
The easter bunny is a device meant to distract and entertain children. In this it looks like it worked.
Happy Easter.
14. Christian Wright | March 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pm
It seems to me that there is a War on Pagans.
Everywhere you look, Christians are trying to undermine pagan holidays.
The birth of Jesus was originally celebrated in January, but it was deliberately moved to December 25 to undermine the celebration of the birthday of Saturn (a Roman god).
Halloween is a tradition pagan holiday for remembering the dead, but Christian usurped that holiday by making it All Hallows Eve, a day to remember saints.
The spring equinox was the day pagans celebrated their fertility rights in hopes of growing crops and strong children, but the Christian undermined that by making it their holiday and calling it Easter.
Christianity has declared a war on indigenous faiths with a cult figure that is no more real than Hercules.
15. JPL | March 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
What planet do you live on, Anti-Christian Wright? Apparently you’ve never been to New York City or San Francisco on Halloween or “Gay Pride” day. Those pagan festivals are far bigger public displays in those cities than any Christian holiday.
Oh, but because your pagan beliefs aren’t mommy-and-daddy-approved, I guess we have to feel sorry for you anyway, you poor, pathetic, picked-on pagan idiot.
16. Sue | March 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
“The spring equinox was the day pagans celebrated their fertility rights in hopes of growing crops and strong children, but the Christian undermined that by making it their holiday and calling it Easter.”
For someone who thinks it cute to mock faith in God and Easter you are greatly misinformed.
Easter is not celebrated on the Equanox. It is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox on March 21.
And anyone I know could care less if some date originally was to celebrate a pagan holiday. I don’t celebrate it. I celebrate Christmas, Easter, etc.
You only show your ignorance and your hatred of Christianity and Christians (and likewise God) with the intolerance and baiting language.
I feel sad for you.
17. Christian Wright | March 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I apologize.
I know there is no god so it is hard for me to take any faith seriously. So sometimes I get a little smug and feel very superior when I read or hear about 21st Century people still wallowing in 1st Century superstition.
I promise I will try harder to be more respectful for people’s beliefs no matter how alien they may seem to me.
18. Freedom1 | March 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Happy Easter, everyone!!!
19. kimberly4victory | March 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
So, CW, who/what made you? When a loved one passes on, where do they go? Since you don’t believe in God, you believe you will never meet again?
How sad.
I look forward to meeting the one who created me. I look forward to the day when I will see my mom again. I look forward to seeing my grandparents and all those who passed before me.
How do I know? Faith does play a very big part. But, after my mom - my best friend in life - passed, I went to a medium. He told me things that ONLY she would know about me. So, I know she is alive and with her creator. It’s a beautiful thing.
20. Dennis | March 24th, 2008 at 12:32 am
Mark, we note your remarks about Easter - pagan holiday that it always has been, even millenia before Christianity.
The fact is that many progressive Democrats also celebrate Christ’s birth, death and resurrection, although the New Testament signification of these things always has been baptism by immersion and a subsequent walk in newness of life, not Easter (see Romans 6:4).
But what I don’t get is how the Prince of Peace, prophesied by Isaiah in the Old Testament (Isaiah 9:6) and celebrated by the angels in the hills above Bethlehem on the night of Christ’s birth, could be used to justify and advance an aggressive foreign policy, war and an us-or-them mentality so at odds with the actual Gospel preached by Jesus and taught so beautifully in His Sermon on the Mount. And evangelicals, both Catholic and Protestant, have done this aggresively.
Aside from Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, Romans 12:17 teaches Christians to “recompense no man evil for evil…. If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good” v 20, 21. Vengeance is God’s business, not ours.
People snicker up their sleeves at such suggestions, saying it isn’t government’s role to feed the hungry, this is not an admonition for governments. To which I would respond: it is indeed, if any government characterizes itself as a Christian government.
People who love power always have seen Jesus’ way as weakness but the truth is, no government has ever tried it. At a time when Americans like yourself fancy our nation to be in a spiritual war with an enemy that has set itself against our “Christian” ideals, yet you will not reckon with the very foundational principles Jesus taught and modeled, how should we regard your Easter message?
If you were unequivocally Christ-oriented in your political convictions it would be easier to take your moralistic and theological ruminations more seriously. As it is, you seem to be just another believer of convenience - an imperial user of Christianity not much different than Constantine - the very one who “baptized” all these pagan traditions and gave them fancy new religious clothes.
21. js | March 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am
20. Dennis
Jesus was very astute about loving our fellow men. But he never taught us that we should just stand by while we are slaughtered. He taught us that doing good to others was righteous, yet allowing our neighbors to be slaughtered was wrong. In Iraq, the people were subdued by a tyrant. The American people came to their aid. This is what Jesus teaches, not to stand by, but to help others. The story of the samaritan is prime example. Yet, when we see that Jesus did not tell us to beat our swords into plowshares, but to buy them, does it not tell you that he is warning us of things to come? That we should be armed and defend the cause of righteousness, to defend the weak, and defeat tyrants and murderers and all sorts of evil that has presented itself to us over the last 2000 years? What use is grace, if we die because we would not fight for the truth.
Luke 22:21-38 - [Verse 36 in Original Greek]
21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table. 22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed! 23 And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing. 24 And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 25 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. 26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. 27 For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth. 28 Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. 29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me; 30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. 33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. 34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me. 35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. 36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. 37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end. 38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
22. Dennis | March 24th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Mark, I’ve read the Gospels from childhood and hold Christ’s entire life and teachings in reverence, unlike many on the right who disregard them only to fetishize his death and atonement. Sorry, but I don’t believe Christianity works that way.
Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would “magnify the law, and make it honorable” (Is. 42:21). The law was grotesquely perverted by tradition and the religious leaders of Christ’s day; he came to strip away the piety and pretension and make the principles of the kingdom of heaven plain to the most simple of people.
You may parse or patronize the clear language of Jesus by calling him “astute” but all your sophistry cannot make him contradict himself. To press Jesus’ teachings into defense of the war in Iraq is the most arrant nonsense I’ve read by you to date, and seems very close to blasphemy. If the Bible to the right is just another Machiavellian handbook, absolving them of moral accountability, it is no wonder so many on the left have little but contempt for it.
Perhaps if Mr. Bush or his advisors had contemplated the deeper meaning of Romans 13 they might have averted the slaughter of over a million innocent Iraqis, the creation of 4 million refugees and the decisive end of religious plurality in that nation. Incredibly, you call this coming to their aid. Instead of finding accountability in Scripture the right uses it to justify themselves and demonize their opponents, exactly as the Pharisees did.
If the blind lead the blind, then they both will fall into the ditch. Is it any wonder that is where America finds itself spiritually now?
23. FmrMarine | March 24th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
“Perhaps if Mr. Bush or his advisors had contemplated the deeper meaning of Romans 13 they might have averted the slaughter of over a million innocent Iraqis,”
Perhaps it was the FREEDOM of over 50,000,000
Iraqis, and Afghans.
Or
The US i military in position to keep the CULT of islam VIA - syria, iran, etc from igniting WW3 by making NUKES and using them against ISREAL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNgaVtVaiJE
24. js | March 24th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
So tell us Dennis, while these people are slaughtering Christians left and right, who are those Christians neigbors, the ones who say Jesus taught to ignore it, or the ones who went there and helped protect them?
Think deep, it might take a long time. You dont have to answer.
25. Dennis | March 25th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Js, “these people” who slaughter Christians are the ones the US has either drawn into Iraq or empowered there. Saddam generally left Christians alone. His foreign minister Tariq Aziz was a Christian. Last week in the wake of the assassination of the Chaldean priest, I heard yet another Catholic priest telling of how Saddam actually had appreciated Christians - they caused no trouble and generally did good for the country.
I have said this repeatedly, and had posts banned here for saying it - Iraq had a thriving Christian community, Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox alike, before the US invasion. Now the few remaining Christians too poor to flee Iraq must absolutely remain under cover. Thanks to Mr. Bush’s war, religious plurality in Iraq is gone. Forever.