I have to think these days more often Willi Marxsen . On the occasion of a course on the origins of Christianity I found in a recent publication of his theses on websites - make it short: "Easter, which means that the cause of Jesus continues, "As was then argued in the seventies to his theories, even in the town public were such" risky assumptions "quite a talking point, it prevailed, of course, the rejection by far one could not but just all... ! sweep the beautiful and great Easter stories with such a sober stroke of the pen aside, Easter would be so much more than just the "cause of Jesus: miracle, miracles, just bodily resurrection from the dead - really
We now live for two thousand years with this? Mainstream Christian - interpretation of the powerful church and its dogmas and cemented by hierarchies and synods approved and enforced. If you look around so that the Christian world is only for the deluded idealists still good and nice and tidy off. is the Roman pope, who is these days back suddenly obvious, not worth a dime more, not dogmatic or moral, just rotten and degenerate, and also on a Reformation, 500 years have passed, you can long braid no laurel wreath more for all of self-righteousness, hypocrisy and intellectual laziness (+ red glass beads Play an organization in the "free fall") in the Protestant churches. And all celebrated each year to the current form of irrevocable and as dogmatic "Easter message." If simply but a nice story, as a great myth, commissioned as a seal, it would perhaps in the Easter stories yet to find something beautiful and end up again. And if they do in practical life and work of Christians and at least "only" the "cause of Jesus" went on, my God, what could it be! If it myself with what Marxsen called the "cause of Jesus", a historically very difficult matter, so you can still take a lot more legal clarity and the drawn from the Gospels, Jesus, his radical humanity and certain closeness to God as a guide and just his "thing" can go further - what would be gained by it all! Only one thing would be so very certainly lost: the hollow and still effective power structures of the churches. But to which we can today and tomorrow really good and happy to do without. Man, what could it be for an Easter without priests, incense and fluttering Bäffchen! Oh what I write: Most of us think it's been so long but ...
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