A Blog of the Global Justice Movement  Monday, April 9, 2012
The Keynesian Cargo Cult, I: Reflections on Easter  You think of
the strangest things in church when you should be paying
attention to the sermon. Yesterday being Easter, the train of
thought started from the station when a number of people in the
congregation (obviously there for the first time since
Christmas) messed up the new responses. Instead of saying, "And
with your spirit" in response to "The Lord be with you," they
started to say, "And also with you." This turned the response
into, "And all-ow-so-ith your spirit."  This led to remembering
what some people (not this writer, who clearly has better things
to do) call attendees who show up only at Christmas and Easter:
"Christmas Angels" and "Easter Bunnies." From there I slipped
into a brief meditation wondering how the Easter Bunny (and, by
extension, Santa Claus) evolved from a celebration based on
Passover and involving death by torture.  I decided it didn't
really matter — which hardly j