Red State

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This coming week starts the anniversary celebrations of the greatest event in history. Two thousand years ago, in a rather routine and inconsequential act for that time, Roman authorities nailed a man to a cross. What happened next is subject to dispute. But since then, most of the western world has believed that three days after his execution, the man named Jesus came back to physical life.

Whether one believes it happened or not, indisputably the first Holy Week fundamentally transformed civilization. Today, several billion people globally will celebrate Holy Week. They believe Jesus died for them, rose again from the dead, stayed on the earth for forty days, then ascended to Heaven “from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead,” as the Apostles’ Creed proclaims.

.....Many people reject these things as myth. The historic record shows that, regardless, the events of this week two thousand years ago fundamentally reshaped the world. More likely than not, the words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights” would not have happened, but for Jesus first proclaiming himself “the way, and the truth, and the life.”

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...the events of this week two thousand years ago fundamentally reshaped the world.

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Not nearly as much as when the Mets won the World Series over the Red Sox in '86.