**Harry Cook has done it again: expressed my long-ago realization that Easter is a big fat lie. His latest essay, "The Season of Blood,"
I thought Christian Scientists had a way around the obvious irrationality about which Harry speaks. That version involves a mind-meld with a deity, expressed by the play on words: at-ONE-ment. To be "at one" with a god is to have the same qualities as the god, rendering all our human troubles and limitations meaningless. And the best part is to realize that you are ALREADY one with that deity — and here's the Easter part — because Jesus already "proved" that he, a human," was godlike enough not to stay dead. And so the point is actually moot. Of course, the only way to accomplish that is to bend reason completely out of shape and to engage in la-la-la about the very real problems that make life so difficult. All religions play some form of this mind game but Christian Scientists, especially the most "devout," are the best at it, and therefore worse at human interactions with "nons."
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