Easter Crisis Crushed For Umpteenth Time

“Under Pressure” from Post-Easter hangover? Fear looming recession, global warming, lawless border, lawless streets, next nuclear war, next president? Didn’t Jesus already take it all on for us & the world’s crazies?

As the WSJ’s Gerard Baker noted in his “The World Is Ending, but It’s Been Ending Many Times Before,” doomsday warnings are arguably more poignant today, yet not so much. Waxed Baker: “Maybe our tendency to see catastrophe is a product of how easy we have it in this age of abundance … [and] … Sitting through the Christian liturgy for Easter weekend [was], aside from its other virtues, a useful therapy for the catastrophism that has modern humans in its grip … [so that] America and the world are living through a very long Good Friday. Like Jesus’ terrified and defeated disciples, we have not an inkling of any Easter rising in our future. We are figuratively locked in an upper room of our own fears, bereft of hope, pondering the many ways in which the world is going to demolish us.”

And yet, the columnist argues: “We are Easter people, not Good Friday people.” He attributes humanity’s longevity & ability to overcome crises over the centuries to “human ingenuity & the science & technology it generates.” He says the last half-century without a world war “has been the best for humans.” Maybe he’s right. But maybe it takes a Lincoln who went to Civil War hell & back to also remind that some higher power has always been watching the back of this human crisis machine. And, it was Jesus Christ who promised not only that He’d be with humanity for the duration of its existence, but that our victory over the evil potential in each of us was assured thanks to His blood sacrifice on Easter.

Davd Soul