Redstate
The
Most Important Week in Human
History
By Erick Erickson
March 25th, 2013
There
are many candidates for most
important day and most important week in human history. This week we
remember
what is arguably the very top of the top of the list.
As
secularism increases in the
western world, more and more are dismissive of the reality of Jesus
Christ.
Consequently, they may choose to dismiss the importance of this week.
That’s
narrow minded Christophobic
thinking from some seriously self-centered individuals.
The
reality is that whether you
accept that Christ lived or not and whether you accept him as the Son
of God or
not, that so many for so long have accepted the significance of this
week in
history should not be ignored. The events of this week, culminating on
Easter
Sunday, fundamentally transformed the world in ways no other event in
human
history has.
The
rise of the Christian, the
Christian religion, governments connected to the church, and the
missionary
zeal have impacted everyone alive today in every country.
The
resurrection event shapes our
language, our idiomatic expressions, our way of telling stories, the
cultural
impact of the ideas of grace and redemption, and the map itself.
In
a world growing more and more
hostile toward the things of Christ, there is renewed zeal to paint the
impact
of the Church on the planet as mostly negative. Nothing could be
further from
the truth. Men were filthy savages before Christ rose and much of the
world
remains that way with or without him.
Frankly,
one of the failings of the
post-Christian West is the rejection of the idea of original sin and
being born
sinners. When we remember that men are, at essence and without Christ
filling
their lives, filthy savages, we are more cautious in our advancement
and
progress. The Enlightenment and post-Christian West have deluded us
into
thinking mankind is better than it actually is on its own.
As
mankind turns its back on this
most important week and its significance, looking to itself instead of
the
cross, mankind embraces its corrupted soul thinking the world corrupted
is
Heaven and Heaven itself is hell.
Throughout
this week at RedState,
ironically coinciding with the Supreme Court taking up the case of “gay
marriage,” we’ll be reflecting on the monumental impact of what we do
believe
was a very real event that impacts our world to this very day.
Read
the rest of this article, and
ensuing ones, at Redstate
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