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Resurrection makes sense on a day like today; as it happens, Easter Sunday.\u00a0 66 degrees, green popping out all over, pachysandra continuing its green invasion (planned) of the third tier of our perennial gardens, daffodils in bloom and many, many throwing up their green spears toward the sun.\u00a0 Tulips and garlic and parsnips.\u00a0 Buzzing bees.\u00a0 Dogs running and jumping.\u00a0 The air moved around with light, warm breezes.\u00a0 Who says the dead don’t come to life?<\/p>\n
In spite of the easter bonnets, the died eggs, chocolate bunnies and marshmallow ducks this is the key event in the Christian liturgical calendar.\u00a0 With no resurrection the other claims are nothing more than interesting two-millennia old ethics and culture.\u00a0 With resurrection all the other claims take on a sacred aura, through them you too can participate in the life after death.<\/p>\n
This is such an odd thought, once you step outside the hermeneutical circle.\u00a0 Not so much that a God could bring the dead back to life, I mean, God, right?\u00a0 Not so much that people could believe it, many strange things are known with or without philosophy, after all.\u00a0 No, for me, the strange thing, in retrospect, is that the club has so many convoluted rules.<\/p>\n
A loving God who retrieves his own son from the ferry and returns him to life.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 A loving God who promises the same thing to others.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 A loving God who seems convinced that many won’t make it and end up either vanished or in gehenna, the burning waste dump outside the city walls?\u00a0 Geez.\u00a0 Of course, His game, His rules.\u00a0 Yeah. But why go through the motions for only a few, a select few. That’s not only weird, it seems perverse.\u00a0 We can’t understand God’s logic?\u00a0 Boy, is that true.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, enough about Him.\u00a0 Me, I’m in for the resurrection that comes from mixing my essential elements back into the soil, providing a little food for the fungi and micro-organisms in the soil, the soul?\u00a0 What if that’s what the after life really is, our souls collected in the mass grave that is this earth to become food for the worms?\u00a0 Works for me.<\/p>\n
It’s possible, of course, and I like to entertain the idea that death is a process like the cocoon, a time of incubation when our cells become, like the butterflies, imaginal.\u00a0 They reshape themselves into a new think altogether, a Swallowtail from a caterpillar.\u00a0 It happens here.\u00a0 I’ve seen it.\u00a0 Or, maybe we’re like water, in this shape in this state, but in a gas or a\u00a0 solid, something related but different.\u00a0 Or, and this\u00a0 one seems the most plausible to me, the many worlds hypothesis turns out to be true and we pass from world to world, inhabiting this body, perhaps another, on and on and on until last syllable of reported time.<\/p>\n
Resurrection is so important a possibility, is my point, that it shouldn’t have a morals clause or be dependent on what we believe.\u00a0 If it is, it just is and we will be swept up into something new, something different and have another go.\u00a0 I like that idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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