(March 10, 2018 at 11:09 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Lol, Ester is not the celebration of Jesus' death. Easter is His resurrection.
Jesus' death is remembered 2 days earlier on Good Friday, and it certainly is not a "celebration." It's a somber day where we are supposed to go to church, not eat meat, not party, and just have a quiet day remembering what Jesus went through.
No it is a celebration of torture, otherwise why include torture in the story from the start?
It never happened. You don't die as the bible implies, then come back to life as the bible would have you believe.
It isn't even a real sacrifice. A sacrifice is when you lose something and don't get it back or expect worship or reward. The soldiers of D-Day whom died stayed dead. They didn't get famous as individuals or start a religion or ask for attention. They didn't come back to life two days after the invasion.
On top of the character taking away the autonomy of the individual's decision making. I don't need anyone telling me whom I have to forgive. I get to decide that myself. I am saying not forgiving someone means revenge. I am saying if I choose to not associate myself with someone whom hurt me, I am the only one who gets to decide that.
It is as story of hero worship born in an age of kings, and even in polytheism the motif of conquest and support of the leader was the social norm back then. The underdog story is not original to Christianity.
The only details that change in religion are the magic tricks. It still amounts to hero worship.
