Pastor Bo WagnerI am writing this 10 days in advance of Easter, Resurrection morning, partly because I wish to try my hand at prophecy for a few moments.
Actually, given the utterly predictable nature of the Twitterverse and most other online forums, calling a sure-thing, slam dunk a “prophecy” is probably a stretch. I am referring to the fact that, since Easter Sunday just so happens to fall on April Fools’ Day this year, the banal, utterly inevitable drivel and memes that are sure to arise will undoubtedly speak of how “fitting and appropriate” it is that April Fools’ Day and Easter coincide.
“Surely,” the 280-character grammar assassin will opine, “no April Fools’ jokes are even needed since those foolish Christians will spend their day worshiping their nonexistent Jesus on the day of his never happened resurrection.”
I wish I could bring myself to be angry, but all I really feel is pity.
That Jesus did in fact exist is known and acknowledged by a near total unanimity of all competent scholars, even those who deny that he was God and even go so far as to deny that there is a God.