From CGI member Morgan:

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http://www.smoking-mirrors.com/2020/04/may-you-find-that-resonating-gospel.html

SNIP:

It is an interesting thing that Christmas has so much more social force and fire than does Easter. Easter is my favorite day by far, if I need to choose between the two. It remains a marvel that he was born into this world of darkness but I would have to say that, “Mission Accomplished!” has a greater impact on me.

If you study what our poorly recorded and terribly biased history shows us over the last two thousand years, it's easier to understand what he meant when he said, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.”

The history of the world o'er these brief centuries has been one of unrelenting bloodshed and much of the time it has been ignited by religion, as much as it has been for economic and geographical reasons, especially earlier on. One of my favorite religiously inspired events was The Children's Crusade. It's origins are murky. Some of it seems to have been of spontaneous ignition. What we know is that none of them seemed to have ever arrived in the Holy Land (if they did they were enslaved) and very, very few of them returned home. We are talking about tens of thousands of children.