Today is Holy Saturday, when Catholics believe that God was dead and burning in Hell...an appreciation below the fold....
They call it “Holy Saturday” for some reason. It commemorates the 24 hours or so when God was dead. Not all of God, just the one third that was crucified and died the day before. Now gods that die weren’t a new concept. The Isis/Osirus and Baccus myths also had them dying and coming back to life, and they predated Jesus by thousands of years. But here’s the kicker: According to the “Apostle’s Creed”, JC went to Hell…
Now here’s the part which gives leads me to the conclusion that the Christian God is not that of love but a complete shit: The Word, as the second person of the Godhead committee was known before the incarnation, went down to Hell, as he was not only fully God®, but a person as well, and all people are damned to eternal torment. But since he was a god, he was able to rescue the heroes and heroines of the Old Testament who were being punished for little or no reason.
Moses, David, Jeremiah and the like were suffering eternal torment, as were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now why would a god of love and compassion do that? Because, in the beginning, Eve discovered that the serpent was right when he told her the fruit of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil wasn’t poisonous.
Apparently the guilt of this “original sin” is inheritable. Being Jewish, we know that the Catholic Church of 1961 taught that the Jews of 1961 were guilty of killing Jesus. So the idea of inheritable sin is a vital part of Christianity. The current pope, when he abolished Limbo condemned little un-baptized babies to eternal torment, which is why the Church is so against abortion. The souls of fetuses are eternally damned.
If Jesus in Hell for a day paid for the sins of the world, whom did he pay it to? The other two-thirds of the Godhead committee? Himself? The Devil? The IRS? Did he rescue only the prophets? Or was Hell emptied out for a few hours? If it wasn’t the latter, then Jesus was a bigger shit than St. Paul was. Would he really have left all those kiddies who were sacrificed to Moloch burn forever if he were truly compassionate? He was after all, one third of God. If the triad was indeed omnipotent, then they could have freed all the innocents with ease.
People far smarter than I have been debating this for hundreds and hundreds of years. The closest I can get to a straight answer is the line: “I believe it BECAUSE it is absurd.”