youre being too hard on old jesus. isnt it enough that he pedaled his malarkey indirectly through deluded fishermen, all the while struggling with a monomaniacal psychosis? jesus was a sweet enough nut. it was paul who was the real major asshole.....happy easter!

It wasn't really a sacrifice he walked again he was only dead for a couple of days. he was executed in a horrible way but so where thousands of others. Many people all over the world suffer worse than JC did dying awful prolonged deaths through no fault of their own, children starve to death and die of easily preventable diseases. So it was not so bad at all was it

He only died for three fucking days and as far as I see nothing has changed after his three day death sentence. It was just a publicity stunt. He needed to top the turning water into wine and the feeding the multitudes with a loaf of bread and a couple fish tricks, so it was the old come back from the dead trick. Brilliant!

For me Easter comes and goes and I barely even notice or care. Just another Sunday.

Some need an excuse to get dressed up ; impress people ...image is EVERYTHING ,especially if you have a direct connection to a deity. I feel powerful just saying deity.
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Was it really a sacrifice if you could come back to life?

It's simple really. A monotheistic God has a son (though logically he can't) and sacrificed him (though he didn't, as he came back in a couple of days) to atone for our sins (though you can't atone for other people's sins), and for such sins which he created in the first place since he created everything in heaven and earth. Simple.

An irony about this is that the people who consider themselves Christians aren't really following his life style because he was Jewish and obeyed the Mosaic Law, didn't eat pork and had Saturday as the resting day. The Christians have Sunday as resting day and eat pork, they started doing that to differentiate themselves from the Jewish. I find that amusing.

Zombie Jesus and a Rabbit that somehow lays eggs. No matter where you look at this "holiday" it's absurd.

There's certainly more suffering in the world than a handful of imaginary deities can handle.
It's why we turned to science and that's been working great every time it's tried.