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Tetelestai: Paid in Full.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 by admiralWe are now entering the Easter Season. All rabbits aside, this is the most holy of the Christian holidays. This season commemorates the date on which all of our debts were forgiven. A pardon was issued if only each of us will reach out and accept it. Even the Supreme Court of these United States has rules that a pardon is just a piece of paper with words on it unless it is accepted.
The date might be off. There was a year in which Easter fell on three days depending on the calendar that you used. We are told that Easter was the Monday following Passover so that should be the correct day, if we are right about when Passover is. Dates do not matter. It is the action that is worth contemplation.
What does it mean to be forgiven? Recent news stories include a pastor who is preaching a very publicized sermon of blame in the name of He who came that we should be forgiven. This story may well kill the campaign of a Presidential candidate. I am not sure why so many of us are feigning indignation concerning beliefs in revenge that are very common in the general population. In “Republic,” Plato writes as Socrates that “an enemy is worthy of your rage.”
As I recall, the ‘Treaty of Versailles” was unfair. That gave the National Socialists sympathy points when they stretched out and tested the resolve of pre-world war two Europe. When the fascists stood up to the National Socialists, it was the fascists who were condemned. Was Winston Churchill almost impeached for his stance against Adolph Hitler? We know what it means to hold a grudge.
Stand up philosophy is meant to be kept light and it is mostly for entertainment. However; even some of what I have written here would have meant jail time if I had been unlucky enough to be born into a real secular nation of secular laws. Our debts being forgiven means that we can move past the offenses that we are willing to face up to. There is no freedom in the absence of forgiveness. It is time that we learned again how to forgive.
