Without celebrating Easter services in churches, Christianity is basically done. Jesus is still in the grave. There was no resurrection. Nothing matters anymore because we can't have church in a building. It's a travesty and my faith may never recover.
I'm only kidding.
Easter has become nothing more than a marketing promotion and a show church pageantry. It's like heroin for Christians, they just can't quit Easter. Now with the Coronavirus, everything has become upended. What will the faithful do without their Easter fix?
We once had the war on Christmas and in the time of the pandemic, we now have a new war on Easter.
With so many Christians framing the stay-at-home orders as a violation of religious freedom, its a reminder that American Christianity had jumped-the-shark long ago. Faith doesn't mean testing positive for stupid.
Join us today as we examine Easter from a cultural standpoint and juxtapose it with why resurrection should matters now more than ever. When Easter has become the Super Bowl for Christianity, we have a problem. The spectacle is never fair trade for substance. And when the substance of Jesus is lost in the cries of 'victory' and 'hosannah', we should have just stayed with the crowds cheering on Palm Sunday. Resurrection isn't a celebration. Resurrection is all about the messiness of life where God likes to occupy.
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