Well,
another Summer Solstice has come and gone. I didn’t have to clean up
the mess from the party last night. I didn’t even get one card. Not one
phone call. My mom and dad didn’t send any packages. Actually my kids
gave me a gift, but alas, it was for Father’s Day! I didn’t even get to
stay up all night watching Scooby Doo Druid episodes.
 
Yet,
June 21st has been an important day for millenia for many religions.
The Summer Solstice, the longest amount of daylight of the year, was a
day to really celebrate and hold elaborate religious ceremonies. Some
even have ceremonies in the present day, in places like Stonehenge.
“Neopagan” is the technical term for these religions. Must be
Christians who thought that term up. Actually, university professors,
but be that as it may, what gives? Why no Solstice dinners, not even a
“Thinking of you at Summer Solstice Time” Hallmark card??
 
Jesus
is real. He hung out with real people and they wrote about it. He was
executed by the Roman authorities and he raised from the dead and hung
out again with real people and they wrote about it. Then people started
doing what he had told them to do in his teachings and they started
becoming real popular with some people and real unpopular with other
people. The people who didn’t get along with his followers, in fact
those who wanted to stop them, at times even kill them, well I wonder
why they didn’t write stuff about Jesus being a fraud? Probably because
the people he hung out with were still alive and could call them out on
their lies. They hadn’t learned Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, yet.
 
The
people who liked Jesus’ followers liked him because his followers had
power they had never seen before and they got healed and cared for and
encouraged and freed from everything that weighed them down in their
lives. There must be something to this “God” stuff because nothing else
ever worked like that. The same power is still present today, and so, I
guess, Christmas and Easter, and most Sundays, a few billion people
will still confidently worship Jesus, and others will still be
intrigued enough to seek to learn more about him.
Sorry, about the Summer Solstice thing not going as big as planned, but check Jesus out…
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