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| wall in cape town, looks like they will miss the water shortage for now… |
does it exist? if you think of it as something else, not the man who was nailed to a cross but something other then that. something that stood for goodness, who allowed our species to stay together and put some morals where there were none. then you must say yes.
it is simply the balance, and it is necessary to portray the good and the bad, and to exasperate what could happen to you if you choose the wrong path. we need this, as a species we need to be scared and reminded what happens if you kill, lie and covet your neighbours sheep. we needed it way more when the bible was formed, when there were not as many jails and police and we had to self-govern ourselves.
great article in the times (you have to register but it is free) here that shows why the story of the bible carries on and what easter really means.
Easter Sunday is the appropriate time to be considering both the impossible claim of the bodily resurrection of one man, and the hypothetically cosmic and world-redeeming significance of that event. This is true, despite the fact that no finite conceptual account of the idea of Christ’s death and rebirth can be finally formulated. Even for die-hard and essentially reductionist atheists of the scientific type (think Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris), a great mystery remains: why has this thoroughly implausible story exercised such immense impact? Archetypal stories simply cannot be superseded, replaced or emptied by any single interpretation,critical or laudatory. But it’s worth soldiering forward, and making what sense can and must be made, despite that inescapable limitation. The story of the dying and resurrecting God is one of the oldest ideas of mankind. It is expressed in the most ancient shamanic rituals. It finds its echo in the ancient stories of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. It manifests itself in allegorical forms — in the figure of the phoenix, which immolates itself, regains its youthful form and rises from the ashes. It permeates popular culture. Marvel’s Iron Man saves the world from demonic forces, plummets like Icarus from the sky to his near death, and then arises. Harry Potter — possessed, like Christ, of two sets of parents — dies and is reborn in his battle with Voldemort, a very thinly disguised Satan. That all speaks of a deep, ineradicable and eternally re-emergent psychological reality…………https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jordan-peterson-the-bestselling-author-and-clinical-psychologist-on-why-theres-still-power-in-the-easter-story-rx5njr0zl