[/caption] Posted on 04/22/2011 10:55:00 AM PDT by Nachum
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Hank Millstein is a practising Roman Catholic in San Francisco. He also serves on the National Committee and the Religion Commission of the Communist Party USA.
To Hank, Easter isn't about the Resurrection, or even Easter Bunnies. Its about revolution, and "its already on its way".
From the latest Peoples World
Easter isn't about Easter bunnies - or even about going to church in Easter bonnets. The real message of Easter speaks powerfully to everyone, whatever their religious belief or unbelief.Easter got started when, after the revolutionary preacher Jesus was executed by the forces of empire, some of his disciples had powerful experiences that convinced them that he had beaten death and was still present with them - and that Jesus's victory over death was the start of a new world in which all oppression and injustice would be defeated. Some might argue that those experiences were fantasy or hallucination - but what those disciples then did was certainly no hallucination: they went on to build a movement, especially among the poor and oppressed, that shook the Roman Empire to the point that its rulers ultimately felt compelled to take it over and co-opt it. Yet even through all the centuries that ruling classes have tried to suppress the revolutionary element of the Easter message, people's forces have time and again reclaimed it. Just look at the peasants' revolts in medieval Europe, liberation theology in Latin America, and Martin Luther King and the civil rights and other people's movements in our own country.
People of any faith or no faith should look beyond the bunnies and eggs and flowers to that original revolutionary Easter message: another world is not only possible - it's already on its way. Easter should spur us on to the struggle to bring that new world to birth.
So now you know what Easter is really about.
Hank Millstein's other Communist Party Religion Commission comrades include Chicago Episcopalian labor unionist Tim Yeager and Maryland African Zionist church minister Pierre L. Williams, a devout Christian, who financed his way through Divinity School through student loan fraud.
I’d rather hear Linus tell us what Easter is all about.
The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. Psalm 12:8 (NIV)
Whenever I read Trevor's Obama Files, I realize we really have no media except Loudon, talk radio, Free Republic, Beckwith's Obama Files, Nachumlist, Horowitz's Discover the Networks and a few other 'outposts' on the web. . .
November 6, 2012 . . Our Last Stand. . .
This is a leftist radical who mugged some Catholic and stole his clothes.
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