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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))7/25/2021 3:41:12 am PDT

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I raised my kids to be Christian Atheists, I explained to them about who that guy was on all the crosses in that he was a fellow who came along and said we should love each other but the people in charge (the Romans and Pharisees) found that so threatening to their grip on power based on fear that they had him crucified.

I explain how people always feared that the sun might go away and never come back, and so the Solstice and the return of the sun was a big deal. Then I explained that how people feared that we would become more evil and wicked and all die from it, but the birth of Jesus was a symbol of hope that we could learn to love each other and survive.

As for Easter, I told them that Jesus probably didn’t die on the cross, they took him down after only nine hours when the process usually took anything from three days to a week, and he snuck away later, but the symbol of him “rising from the dead” meant that we need not fear death.

I think it worked for most of them.