In a few days, Christians worldwide will celebrate the most important days of their liturgical year – Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday — this paschal triduum celebrates the crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus’s ordeal is based on the belief that humankind is profoundly sinful – so sinful that we could never satisfy our debt to God; so by suffering and dying, Jesus redeemed us. And how do we know that we are redeemed? We are assured that we are redeemed by the fact of Jesus’s resurrection.
Setting skeptic considerations aside, the impact this Eastertime narrative has on our society is seriously damaging. Not only does it get human nature completely wrong, it also assumes that the law of cause and effect, applicable to everything else, does not apply to humans.
The terrible consequences of these erroneous ideas proliferate from the mean-spirited begrudging way that we treat marginalized people to the excessive wealth and power that we allow others to take.
In this two-part Easter Special, we will discuss alternatives to believing in free will and sin. We’ll play our traditional Jesus vs. The Easter Bunny Debate, and we’ll be taking your calls as well.