It's Zombie Jesus Day!
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Perhaps.
American Heritage doesn't list the word. Webster's does: lich noun / dialectal, British : a dead body : corpse — used chiefly in combination, lich-house
Satire plays a prominent role here at CitizenVoice.us , post #1 not the only example.
But there's little if any gain to gratuitously insult sincere religious belief. Christian theology does raise questions in the 3rd millennium science-oriented mind.
A candid study shows history to be a little more complicated.
Atheists and skeptical agnostics may regard the Holy Bible as ancient myth, written in a substantially preliterate society. Perhaps.
But even if so, it's the basis of a popular discipline that takes a counterintuitive turn or two.
It's common to think of religion and science as antithetical, contradictory.
Religion may have preceded science as the criterion of truth.
And science is now widely if simultaneously ignorantly (savor the irony) regarded as the criterion of truth.
Recent history produced a scientist whose name is synonymous with genius, scientific intellect: "Einstein". BUT !
Perhaps the greatest scientist of all time, Sir Isaac Newton was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Those that wish to sidestep the benefits of such discipline needn't justify contempt with a talking serpent, or a pregnant virgin wife.
Though the precise reason for the benefit may be obscure to believers and non-believers alike, history is strewn with anecdotes of religious believers achieving synergistic results.
So:
On this holiday commemoration of the Biblical account of the resurrection: Happy Easter.
