This saddens me greatly. Clergy, whom do you serve? Seems you had 3 choices: God, His people or the state. Many of you picked the state! Congratulations! You just betrayed your faith. Next question: is your service optional or is it a requirement? Congratulations! You picked optional. You just betrayed your commitment to the flocks. Messiah's example of laying down his life is lost on you. You also just demonstrated that we can worship God without you.

Somewhere along the line Christians adopted this value of always being nice to everybody. Jesus was a royal pain in the butt to any established authority. He caused Herod many sleepless nights. He nearly drove the Pharisees insane. Both as an iconoclast and as a prophet, he literally overturned the tables of capitalism inside the Temple. Jesus was a disruptor. Jesus was occasionally destructive of earthly power. He came to abolish it in word and deed. And perhaps worst of all, more than that, he done hurt their feelings. Aw. So they killed him. And he went out like a lamb just to show them how stupid they were. Best piece of performance art ever.

Apologies folks, you have to read my comments in reverse order, that way the chronology makes sense. I'm using comments to write an article. So herefore my Easter Missive, this is the wrap-up. If you are either leading or attending church on Zoom today, it could be that your church has fallen. If you are wearing masks and distancing, you should be laying on hands. If you are worried about what might happen, good, your faith is challenged. If you are worried that defiance might jeopardize your tax except status as a church, you aren't running a church, you are running a business.