ABC article here

It starts off on a very promising note:

Over Easter the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader will participate in rites that many see as ridiculous.

They will be reflecting on the last days of a Jew who died in Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago. On Thursday they ritually recreated his last meal and today they will remember the moment he was executed.

Then they will celebrate the impossible; that this man rose from the dead.

Under the confessions both follow this cannot be explained as a metaphorical resurrection, a rebirth in the minds and hearts of his followers. As Paul wrote: “If Christ did not rise, your faith is vain”.

So is faith a vanity, a delusion? Maybe it is. To many the story of Christ is just another fable. The atheists are right. Faith, of any kind, has always been absurd. It defies logic and offends science. Yet people believe.

Yet, by the end, has descended into infantile ignorant lunacy:

Jesus was executed for refusing to compromise his beliefs. And it’s when he faces the fate which terrifies us most, that a pagan, a Roman centurion, recognises Jesus as Christ.

“In truth this man was a son of God,” he says.

Maybe Mark is saying Christ proved everyone has the capacity to be godlike, if we have the courage to embrace the best of ourselves.

That is not a delusion. It’s a deep truth. One not dreamt of in science.

Get a load of that final trio of wild assertions! The reporter needs therapy.
Next time perhaps they should send the golfing reporter rather than a Political Editor!

Chris Uhlmann is The 7.30 Report’s Political Editor.