{"id":13326,"date":"2023-04-09T09:03:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13326"},"modified":"2023-04-09T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T15:55:35","slug":"13326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13326","title":{"rendered":"Look, the Son is Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Upper photo: “Sonrise Hill,” Thedford, Nebraska, site of Easter sunrise worship. Lower photo: signboard at a nondenomination Protestant church in Colorado<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s that magical time of year, when Christianity does seem to resemble a solar cult, much to the satisfaction of all the internet scholars who say that Jesus is really just the same as Osiris, Adonis, Dumuzid,<\/a> Mithras, Sol Invictus, Baldur, etc.<\/p>\n

But at the same time, if I had a dollar for everytime someone \u2014 usually a Protestant Christian minister \u2014 has made the Son\/Sun pun at this time of year, I would be drinking my morning coffee in my Teton County mountain mansion<\/a> with my pet wolves gamboling on the lawn. <\/p>\n

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It’s that magical time of year, when Christianity does seem to resemble a solar cult, much to the satisfaction of all the internet scholars who say that Jesus is really just the same as Osiris, Adonis, Dumuzid, Mithras, Sol Invictus, Baldur, etc. But at the same time, if I had a dollar for everytime someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,24,127],"class_list":["post-13326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-christianity","tag-festivals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-13326","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6360,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6360","url_meta":{"origin":13326,"position":0},"title":"The ‘Pentecostal Drift’ and Modern Paganism","author":"Chas S. 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