Pentecost

Volker Heine explains why he calls Pentecost ‘the Quaker festival’

by Volker Heine 13th May 2016

Every year the Christian church celebrates Easter, although the crucifixion was an absolute tragedy. The Easter story has been embroidered by myths and symbols to turn it into the central Christian festival, but these are later churchly additions. For example, in an early copy of Mark’s Gospel, found, incidentally, by a couple of women living at Castlebrae in Cambridge, there is no mention of an empty tomb (nor of a virgin birth!). The doctrine of the Trinity (including ‘Jesus equals God’) goes directly against what I consider to be good Old Testament teaching: not to elevate people to the status of gods, while all those golden crucifixes seem like worshipping ‘graven images’.