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March 21, 2008
It's finally autumn in Adelaide. There was coolness in the air this morning and just a touch of rain yesterday evening as we drove into Victor Harbor, and then again early this morning. But it cleared to being bright and sunny late morning with a cold southerly wind.
Leunig
My current cross is technology ---getting the renovated desktop computer, wireless modem, laptops and software to work smoothly at the weekender so that I can actually post. The shift in just over two years is one from just having an old second computer with dial-up to the beginnings of a photographic studio with lots of digital backup (LaCie Ethernet Big Disk) and online music.
But I have no idea what Easter rabbits and eggs have to do with Christ dying on the cross and rising again---the Last Supper on Holy Thursday to the death of Jesus on Good Friday and finally, his resurrection on Easter Sunday. However, Easter is all about the easter eggs. There are no cards, customs, songs about the latter. It's chocolate everywhere in the supermarkets. If renewal and hope are the great themes of Christian Easter, then people in the shopping malls in secular Australia translate these themes into long boozy afternoons, judging by the amount of alcohol being carried out the bottle shops in the shopping malls in Victor Harbor.
The caring, sharing gospel seems to have been replaced by a 4 day bacchanalia.
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Gary, a quote from my favourite "philosopher".
"Only Men of Pleasure Know the Truth"
Chocolate is about pleasure.
A brutally tortured man nailed to a cross is about sado-masochistic suffering, hair shirts, self-flagellation etc etc.
And inevitably, the applied "sacrificial" politics of scape-goating.
Compare the delightful 2000 film Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche, in which even the stern priest was converted to happiness, to
that more recent exercise in sado-masochistic pornographic violence The Passion of Christ.
Brought to one and all by the self-flagellaters with whom the producer associates. Whose presence & influence is all over right wing "catholic" politics.
My advice would be to flee from a "religion" that uses the latter film as an advertisement for itself.