A note on Coming Back

Resurrection is a funny thing. Short of being something that can only happen within a very short time of heart stoppage, we tend to think of resurrection as being strictly metaphorical.
Yesterday, billions of people all over the world celebrated the resurrection of Jesus, a mythology which puts it's weight completely on the coming back.
There are lots of mythologies out there that have magical or miraculous parts.
But this one is designed to get us to not worry about right now, and instead place our hopes on the after life, where we shall, one day, be resurrected like Jesus.
I have no taste for the torture and death of who I still believe was a great man with a hugely important message.
I have even less taste for celebrating an internal mindset that values something after death as more important than the right now.
Experts in theology often have to skirt the issue of the miraculous. They have to trump it up as the power of God or claim that we just don't know, but we'd better believe anyway, just to be sure.
In both cases, there is just one problem: it accomplishes nothing.
It's fine to celebrate the man, a thing we should do every day. But to give ourselves over to believing in nonsense which poisons our ability to live and be awake in the here-and-now, is really a frightening prospect.
Follow the teachings of the man, but eschew the fantastical things in the stories.
Focus more on how to emulate his story to fit today. Focus less on the afterlife.
Today is the day. That's the real miracle.