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It's understandable why the Roman world of the time observed it with ridicule and then alarm: It was a complete break with the values of the time. Even now, it's unlike most cultural worldviews (though its values, e.g., 'human rights', have spread along with Western hegemony).
Long of way of saying: it's odd to see the Easter season 'from the outside' for the first time. Nothing quite like seeing what was once familiar as novel and foreign. It's an intellectual out-of-body experience: jarring and life-changing. A sort of religious phantom limb, almost.
British PM Benjamin Disraeli (born Jewish, converted to Christianity) when asked by Queen Victoria what religion he *really* was, supposedly replied: I'm the blank page between the Old and New Testaments in the bible. It's an interesting middle ground.
(As a personal note, I think I'm landing way before that blank page, somewhere in the middle of Ecclesiastes.)
As a side note and total plug, we'll have @holland_tom on BIG IDEAS this week, to discuss more about Christianity and Western thought.
I used to feel that way about cigarettes.
Chesterton on seeing Christianity “from the outside”: “the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to be far enough away not to hate it.”
Hmmm. Returning to your first comment in this thread, circumcision as a religious sacrament looked at "from the outside" might also be viewed as a "religious phantom limb", albeit not only of the intellectually jarring kind.
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