Easter Sunday

 

Subject: Easter Sunday.


Today we are celebrating an event the resurrection of a man who had died but through the miraculous intervention of god had been brought alive again as part of his passage into heaven. All religions offer a similar theme, an option to the dreadful finality of death with a concept of passing into a sort of spiritual home for the enlightened.
Religiosity is mankind’s bolster against the unfathomable awkwardness of living a life without  the sense of meaning and reward for the good things we do unto others.
Of course doing good should not presuppose a reward, the reward is in the act itself and millions of people each day feel that sense of being rewarded by simply sensing the appreciation of others for something you have done for them when in fact you have done it for yourself in recognising their need.
This act of knocking on the door of an old person living on their own and who are perhaps sick and frail, the stint in the charity shop or the food bank, the offer of a lift into town or rescued someone when their car has broken down, all these are humanitarian acts which don’t need a religious holiday to signify the part we play in the humanity of which we are a part. This is so important in acting as a counter weight to the dreadful bickering which goes on in the media each day as factional interests take over our individual ones. The factions, political, religious, sectarian are a blight on a common sense instinct to do good and what’s right towards neighbour, friend and even foe. The savour rattling and the use of force to make a point which is in the mindset of a few and infects the many through an unrelenting campaign of insidious propaganda.