It’s the time of the year when Christians around the world celebrate Holy Week. I don’t consider myself a practicing Christian. Like Richard Dawkins, I’m more of a Cultural Christian. I continue to respect the tradition I grew up in. I partake in the rituals the same way I would perform other religious rituals should I find myself inside a Buddhist or a Muslim temple. But I don’t take them too seriously.
As a Christian, I like going to mass on Christmas, Palm Sunday, and Easter. I look at them as metaphors for cycles of psycho-spiritual transformation — birth (Christmas); fulfillment of life, destiny, mission, meaning and purpose (Palm Sunday); transformation (Easter).
Religion is an attempt to comprehend the mystery of existence that is beyond the grasp of our human comprehension. This Holy Week I’d like to honor this attempt via a series of blog posts. For the next seven days I’ll post something about the Christian religion with my own personal spin to it. I’ve done this a few years back. I called it 7even Days. Join me this Holy Week as I riff on this mystery.
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