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I'm not a Christian, although I was raised Russian Orthodox. I'm not anything, I'm just a person. I believe in evolution not in being ruled by dead people from a time I never knew. I was delivered to this condition by what is known in Greek as Thelema.

But what is Easter?

There was this person represented by the name Jesus Christ who had certain beliefs that upset the powers that be and they told him to denounce what he speaketh or vee Kill you. So the death of Jesus represents a very important milestone in "human evolution"; similar to the milestone of Abraham refusing to make a human sacrifice of his son. A person died for what they believed in and his followers saw the importance of that and felt morally compelled to somehow ensure that humanity, for the good of itself and for the good of "human evolution", remembered that fact. So it was decided that from the death of winter to the rebirth in Spring, when all buds and blooms are resurrected - that it Shall be remembered, that this man died for what he believed in.

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But this man did not create Spring, nor resurrection. So stop and consider the buds and blooms. They die in Fall and Winter, are reborn and reproduce in Spring and Summer, continuously, like a human blood line, yet, most likely, outlasting any. We don't know these buds or blooms, we don't name them only as such things as the daffodils, lilacs, &c, but they are living and that's what "eternal life" is, it's the same with people.

I had a brief conversation a few days ago with a Conservative; and it reminded me that Conservatives are wed to the idea of Divine Right Monarchy. They slam shut all of the metaphorical doors inside of their head until their mind is very small and then everything outside of it is either God or the Devil. If it seems "good" to them, then it's God, but if it seems bad "must be the devil". Now I told my Mother this and if She can handle it then so can you, just open the door a little ... a friend of mine, an Irish Roman Catholic, myself and another friend of mine who was a Polish Roman Catholic were in a bar getting drunk and talking about Philosophy. the Polish guy was getting nervous about what the Irish guy was saying and started going around inside of his head slamming the doors shut (great metaphor for a film). So he reminded the Polih guy about what Aristotle said about God - essentially - a theory beyond human comprehension or as the Orientals say "the Unique Principle" and then had the Pole concede that God must indeed be unique. So the Pole seemed satisfied and the Irishman countered "So Fuck God in the Ass" !! The Pole was absolutely livid and the Irishman said now wait a minute: when you go to bed and lay me down to sleep, do you say your prayers? And the Pole said why yes I do; and the Irishman said well if what you're praying to has an asshole then it certainly can't be unique since everyone has one of those

This is one example of why blasphemy is protected speech but at sometime in the past, this poor Irishman would have surely been burned alive, hung, drawn and quartered, stoned, whatever; and if you just open the doors a little the power is within yourself to realize why we had to evolve beyond that. I think that Jesus would have liked that but the Powers that Be are never satisfied - they're still killing and plundering robbing and stealing, in the name of Christ, America but paradoxically, never, themselves

And finally, that's what all of this comes down to - You and Your Power vs. the Powers that Be so when you think about Jesus Christ think about that - and ask yourself - what side are you really on. To thine ownself be true

blazintommyd's Easter Sermon 2011
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