On a day that is supposed to be about resurrection, renewal, and the radical idea that peace is worth dying for, it seems worth pausing to ask what we are actually building toward.
There are no winners at the end of a religious war. History has told us that story enough times. The bodies on all sides look the same. The grief on all sides sounds the same. And the world that emerges from that kind of conflict doesn’t resemble the righteous vision anyone started with — it just carries the scars.
Whatever your faith, or lack of it, today is as good a day as any to slow down, look at the direction things are heading, and decide whether that is actually where we want to go.
Because once that door is fully open, it is very hard to close.
