Easter  is regarded as the most important time for reflection and introspection on the Christian Calendar. Special events are held all over the world to commemorate the price Jesus paid in order to save the human race from eternal damnation. It is the time of the  year when churches become somewhat more populated than usual as the shepherds share the glad tidings of salvation with the flocks.

Why, however, would a merciful and loving god, who created man in his own image, find it necessary to send his only begotten son who, by the way we are told, was immaculately conceived, to die in this appalling fashion when he could so easily have found a different and less ghastly solution?

If he created everything, even the devil, and he saw it was good, where did things go wrong?

Why did he, if this event occurred, not leave any evidence to remind his sheep? Why is everything covered in mystery and the human race is simply told to believe all this and follow the prescriptions handed down from generation to generation in order to redeem ourselves from eternal damnation?

Oh so many questions and no real answers. Hey, don’t fret! Let’s enjoy the hot cross buns and easter eggs. See you around next year for a repeat performance!

Nietzsche sums it up succinctly;

The proof of such an assertion is lacking. ……… A god who begets children on a mortal woman; a sage who calls upon us no longer to work, no longer to sit in judgment, but to heed the signs of the imminent end of the world; a justice which accepts an innocent man as a substitute sacrifice; someone who bids his disciples drink his blood; prayers for miraculous interventions; sins perpetrated against a god atoned for by a god; fear of a Beyond to which death is the gateway; ……….. — how gruesomely all this is wafted to us, as if out of the grave of a primeval past! Can one believe that things of this sort are still believed in?