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Religion: Respect? Ridicule! Paasfees: deus ex machina
‘n Leraar van die NG gemeente Lux Mundi, Ds. Elsje Büchner, skryf met passie oor die Paasfees in vandag se Beeld.
Jesus moes glo sterf om ook die seer en gevolge van lyding te dra. “En die wêreld het dit só nodig.”
En dan het die dominee wragtag die chutzpah om ‘n lysie te verskaf van goed wat sover in 2008 gebeur het waaraan Jesus “dra”.
Wat op áárde het Jesus se “gedra” aan die slagoffers van hierdie wandade gemaak? Hóé het Jesus se “draery” gehelp?
As Jesus wil hélp dan moet hy sy vinger uit sy almagtige gat trek en iets dóén! Nie “help dra” nie! Fôk! Ek sal hierdie Jesus nie ‘n jop gee as opsigter van ‘n longdrop nie. Hy is totentaal useless.
Ds. Büchner reken voorts: “Ons het nodig om die kruis te sien en opnuut te glo in die vrede en verlossing van Sy versoeningsdood en opstanding.”
Kák! Ons het nodig om sosiale probleme daadwerklik en in die koue lig van rede aan te spreek. Nie om ons tyd te verwyl met Brons Tydperk ouvroustories in ‘n Middeleeuse jassie van vrees en onkunde nie.
Hierdie hele Paasfeesfoefie is gewortel in die grootste onreg in kosmiese geskiedenis. Ek skryf in God does not exist: Think about this, if you will: If the Gospels are to be believed, there never was a more unjust execution in the history of the universe than that of Jesus, the Christ. For his alleged felonious status, he was inexplicably unknown to the prosecuting authorities who spent 30 pieces of silver to get a confidant to identify the innocent man. He is kangaroo judged by a riotous jury of his foes, condemned by indifference, blackguarded and excruciated and eventually crucified in what must surely rank as the number one most scandalous injustice in cosmic history.
This is God’s fix for the wanton depravity of pilfering fruit? Of offending His ludicrous idiosyncrasies? This evildoing speaks to God’s justice? It’s all O.K. now? God had seen his “only begotten son” tortured and calumniated and in the son’s very moment of utmost despair, before dying, God turns his back on him… and His Omnipotence is divinely just?
G-i-v-e _ m-e _ a _ b-r-e-a-k!
This entire “God” and “Divine Justice” fallacy is predicated upon supreme injustice.
En in Lent: I think, however, that Lent indicates the fact that God lent his son to us. God never sacrificed his son, Jesus. What kind of sacrifice is flagellation, some verbal abuse, obloquy, to be sure, but none worse than verbal abuse nonetheless, and some 40-odd hours of “death” – during which Jesus traveled to Hades and visited with some interesting individuals? Big deal! This ain’t no “sacrifice”! Jesus is hardly dead or he rises again, to be with “dad” forever.
Wat die mensdom meer as enigiets anders nodig het is om vir ‘n oomblik te dink en die inherente belaglikheid van die Christelike Bestel raak te sien. En dan om op te staan en iets daadwerkliks oor onreg en lyding te dóén! En juis nié om op Jesus te wag nie!
Wanneer gaan “Die Kerk” besef dat vals hoop baie, báie erger is as die totale afwesigheid van hoop?
Written by Nathan Bond March 10, 2008 at 10:10
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