Easter, Bloody Easter!

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I saw "The Passion of Christ" by Mel Gibson and saw that as a twisted celebration that a sick mind felt needed to be relived over and over again. I grew up in an old Catholic Church that had the stations of the cross posted on the walls and little old ladies touching the images adoringly. The yearly live performances of the Crucifixion story in churches (on Sunday, not "Good" Friday) certainly qualify as a celebration.

We value and remember the fact that He made the ultimate sacrifice and act of love, which is to lay down your life for another. Just as we do for war heros who die in battle, or otherwise people who get killed while rescuing another.  But come on. That doesn't mean we "celebrate" the fact that He was tortured and murdered. What the Romans did to Him was an evil, horrible, sad thing, and is portrayed as such in the Passion of the Christ as well as in the Stations of the Cross. If you take the fact that we remember/value His willingness to die for us as "celebrating" His tortured killing, you are misunderstanding. Believe it or not, we aren't sadistic monsters.

The Romans are only the scapegoats and so was Judas. The plan all along was to have him tortured and murdered. Prophecies from the Old testament. Your own words "His willingness to die for us". The speech in the garden of Gesthemane.  Jesus was not a victim of the Romans, he volunteered. The sick narrative that the Jews killed him led to millions of Jewish deaths. There is so much sickness in this myth.

CL, you might not be sadistic , but this is a sadistic story. Call it what you want.

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True story- my youngest brother at about age 8 managed to get a whole package of Peeps (5? 6?) in his mouth all at one time.

Excellent Boy!