Holy
Saturday is the theological no man's land between the crucifixion and the
resurrection where faith is traditionally absent
The Guardian, Giles Fraser, Saturday 19 April 2014
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| An actor on the cross in a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday 2012 in Caracas, Venezuela. Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters |
I suppose
it has been coming for a while. I suppose other people recognised it about me
long before I was prepared to admit it even to myself. Please understand: it's
hard to let go of something that has been such a part of my identity for most
of my life. It gave me a living and a purpose. And yes, I'm going to be
embarrassed by all those smirking "told you sos".
But they
were right and now I need to own up and come clean: I don't believe in God. And
no, this is not some modern theologian's semantic dodge. The whole thing is
rubbish; a set of bronze-age myths designed to keep the priestly caste in power
and carefully engineered to feed off the insecurities of the weak and the
ignorant.
And to
think, I gave religion my best years – which is why I wont ever be a neutral
sort of atheist. I know it from the inside: all the deceitful intellectual
twists and turns, all the cons and the bullshit, all the hypocrisy. The way it
treats women and gays. The way it pretends it has some sort of monopoly on
virtue while abusing children and making people feel guilty about sex. The way
it uses that weasel category of "faith" as a cover for a lack of
proper intellectual justification.
All that
manipulative stuff about "going to heaven" because it says so in a
very old book (a book that constantly contradicts itself). To tell you the
truth, most of them don't mean it anyway. And the ones that do are mad. No, I
am going to make Richard Dawkins look like a model of calm. I hate religion,
passionately. And it feels good finally to be able to say so publicly.
Am I being
serious? Well, yes and no. Yes because, despite frequent assumptions to the
contrary, many Christians do get atheism and feel its force. Indeed, from Job
to Martin Luther to Dostoyevsky, some of the most vociferous expressions of
hostility towards God hail from within the Christian tradition. The Roman
Catholic church was built upon the rock of St Peter: but this very foundational
figure was also the person who denied Christ over and over again. Even Jesus on
the cross appears to have lost sight of the one he once called Father. "My
God, why have you forsaken me?"
Nietzsche,
for instance, got his famous "God is dead" phrase, via Hegel, from
the words of a 17th-century German hymn: "O große Not, Gott selbst ist
tot" – or "O great distress! God himself is dead!" In the Easter
story, atheism is a moment within faith and not its contradiction. Hegel
understood how a thing can also contain its opposite. Faith and non-faith have
a dialectical relationship.
Today is
Holy Saturday – that theological no man's land between the crucifixion and the
resurrection where faith is traditionally absent. It is the one day of the year
when Christians get to be atheists.
But I'm
obviously not being entirely straightforward with you in pretending to be an
atheist. I'm also still a fully paid-up believer. For even during those
numerous moments in my priestly ministry when I have lost sight of my calling,
even when I have given up, there is something that has not given up on me.
The point
about the resurrection is that it represents the revival of what to all the
world looks like a totally lost cause. The hope that first drove ordinary
people to put down their nets and follow some strange itinerant preacher from
Galilee turns out to be a great deal more robust than any strength of mind that
His once enthusiastic follows were able to muster within themselves.
Even faith
itself comes as a gift and not as something self-sustaining. And thank God for
that. So we say: He is risen. Hallelujah.
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