Easter Questions

Why should an omnipotent god have to take the form of man to die for the sins created by the same god? Why not eliminate the sins and its roots from the get-go? Why have sin at all?

Name one reasonable person who would suffer tremendously when he or she doesn't have to, just to pay for something he or she made and didn't have to...and could quite easily cause to not have existed in the first place.

To quote the bible, "What is man that you are mindful of him?" It's a good question: why are we so fucked up as to need an ever-mindful creator to suffer for all of us in order for some of us to be able to die and live eternally with it? Why should any omnipotent being need a son to die wretchedly (but finitely) just to ensure that countless billions suffer horribly in an eternal torture chamber while a scant few go on to worship it in bliss forever?

A woman, a serpent, and a piece of fruit isn't even a BAD answer; it's a stunningly inane reply. The gods of the bible are amoral reprobates who deserve scorn, not obedience, and who certainly deserve no worship. And the tales of their doings are so phenomenally horrifying and absurd that only by abandoning one's intellectual self-respect could one actually believe any of them in part or in full. I would ask of believers: what are the biblical gods that we should be mindful of them?

Today, as with any Easter Sunday, I'll be thankful for the Enlightenment and for the government (democratic republic) and philosophy (science) it promoted. Both have made my life quantifiably better than those of humans who lived before them, though neither has been perfect. But that's just it: neither has ever claimed to be. Both are works in progress, and both have resulted in just that. So while millions of Christians praise a 1st century Jewish rebel and his mythological life/death/life, we 21st century atheists mourn the loss of a beautiful spring weekend to the illogical religions that have--and continue to--cause so much pain, death, and destruction...but no progress.

The same kind of mindset that makes people believe Jesus rose from the dead caused the twin towers to fall: acceptance without evidence. Faith is hardly an admirable trait; it is instead a dangerous delusion.