God Is Dead Day
Today is a special day for the adherents of Christianity. Today is the Saturday between Good Friday (celebrating the day Christ died) and Easter Sunday (celebrating the day Christ rose from the dead.) Saturday is the day that Christ spent dead, and I would therefor humbly submit that this day should be celebrated by all Christians as “God Is Dead Day.”
This may seem a strange thing to ask Christians to celebrate, but please allow me to continue and explain my thinking.
If GOD is spending today dead - then he is not watching. Today is a day free from divine punishment or reward. Today you can behave as you would regularly choose to behave, if no GOD in heaven was watching you. Today is not only a holiday where you get the day off work, but one in which you also get a break from external moral judgment.
Today you, and you alone, will be responsible for the morality of your own freely chosen actions.
Regardless of your belief, “God Is Dead Day” is an excellent day to think about your own code of behavior. What if no one but you would judge your actions - would your personal code of morality be different than it is now? Given a day free from judgment by others, would you act differently? And if so, then are you really a moral person the other 364.2425 days a year?
If your moral behavior stems only from a fear of divine punishment, or even just what other people might think, is it really morality or is it just fear?
Give this some thought, and then spend today doing all the things you would like to do, safe in the knowledge that no one is watching, and your only judge today will be yourself.
Have a happy GIDD everyone!
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