Progressive Christians, what do you tell your children Easter is about?

[grantcart]

11. No longer a 'Christian' but I tell them that it is about the Resurrection of the Body of the Christ.

The Body of the Christ is the Church.


That when the Church was completely demoralized they found the tomb empty (Mark) but later by focusing on the meaning of the words and mission of the Rabbi Jesus they found new meaning in the community of believers.

This rebirth of the community was cannonized in Matthew and Luke and mythologized in John.

It was personified in the story of a brilliant tent maker who became a conspirator in religious persecution and an acoomplice to murder. When the guilt became too great for him he suffered from hysterical blindness and only found relief when members of that body accepted him with grace and his life was reborn.

The greatest witness to the life of Jesus, his death and the Ressurection of his message of Grace was a man who never saw him and did his best to kill that message. If that doesn't prove that Ressurection isn't true then I don't know what does.

In proving that the principle of Ressurection is true (hasn't the Union of South Africa been reborn from the dead?) I think that the Church slowly mythologized it into a particular truth rather than a general truth because it found that it was easier to propogate the message with stark symbols and rituals (the Cross and the Mass).

So you can see why I can't consider myself a Christian but also why we never talked about the Easter bunny.