The True Easter Message: A Call to Liberation and Transformation
Happy Easter to those who honor the risen Jesus, the playful Easter Bunny, or whatever story, myth, or belief, pagan or otherwise, gives meaning to your spiritual path.
But today, let’s pause and reflect on the deeper truths buried beneath the surface of Easter traditions. This is not just a day of celebration, but a reminder to resurrect our own potential and confront the darker truths in faith, society, and ourselves.
The resurrection of Jesus, often idolized and distorted in organized religion, carries profound personal meaning—but only if we allow it to. It is not a story meant for passive adoration or mindless worship of the image of suffering. Instead, it is a call to action, a mirror held to our lives, urging us to break free from the tombs of fear, shame, trauma, and control that keep us enslaved, both spiritually and societally.
If we cling to the myth while ignoring its meaning, Jesus’s story becomes nothing more than background noise for a humanity lost in idolatry and ignorance. His resurrection challenges us to rise, not just to admire. The stone isn’t just what was rolled away from his tomb; it is the weight of our wounded past, self-inflicted judgments, and societal indoctrination. We are asked to push away that stone and awaken to our own capacity for healing and liberation.
The world today continues to crucify the innocent just as it did in Jesus’s time. Faith, originally meant to liberate and unify, has been weaponized and politicized to oppress, vilify, and harm. This is not a new phenomenon. From Judaism’s historical rigidity to modern Christianity’s moral compromise, these traditions often elevate authority and dogma over love and truth. The teachings of Jesus, rooted in compassion and justice, are exploited to serve agendas of division, greed, and control.
The Deification of a Demon: Ignorance, Power, and a World Ablaze
Throughout history, humanity’s proclivity for elevating mere mortals into godlike figures has shaped civilizations, religions, and social orders. From the Pharaohs of Egypt, deemed divine incarnations of the gods, to Rome’s emperors, elevated as celestial rulers after death, history reminds us that the allure of imbuing leaders with divinity is nothing new. Often, this deification has been rooted in a desire to consolidate power by capitalizing on fear, ignorance, and blind reverence. When this act of idolization is channeled towards figures of divisiveness, the consequences reverberate far beyond mere allegiance, steering societies down treacherous paths of destruction and moral decay.
Nowhere do we see this phenomenon play out more acutely than in the modern deification of Donald Trump. To his staunchest supporters, Trump is not just a man or a president; he is a symbol of rebellion, a purported savior in their fight against “elitism” and a fabricated enemy built upon decades of societal discontent. But the paradox is glaring. Trump, a man whose life of opulence and exploitation embodies the very structures he claims to oppose, wields power not through competence or service, but by exploiting ignorance, stoking fear, and weaponizing division.
People in general are highly resistant to change, though easily hypnotized into obedience by masters of propaganda and control. So, the message here is that dictators realize this, and methodically use their targeted messaging to manipulate and control the emotions and instincts of those susceptible, often beyond the person’s conscious awareness and control.
Yet, as the experience of the Trump era shows, the collective racism, immorality, and unethical behavior of America’s Christian understanding is now an institutionalized disease within a few major tribes within its body of thought and shared narratives. These are no longer unconscious manipulators of many of the so-called Christian followers, they are active conscious motivators to non-Christian behavior, in the guise of a Christian tradition.
The Corruption of a Faith Misguided
What is particularly disturbing is the role of evangelical Christianity in Trump’s ascension to near-messianic status. A faith that ostensibly champions love, compassion, and moral stewardship has been distorted to serve as a tool of political manipulation. Many in the American Christian right have abandoned the core teachings of their Christ in favor of self-serving interpretations that excuse cruelty, sexual abuse, criminality, lies, treachery, and power struggles, provided it furthers their perceived agendas. By aligning themselves with Trump, they’ve inverted their faith, glorifying a man who revels in dishonesty, greed, and vindictiveness, all in the name of a warped vision for societal “righteousness.”
Trump followers wear Donald’s dirty diaper on their head proudly, and unconsciously.
Nowhere is this distortion more evident than in policies that target the vulnerable. Trump’s rhetoric on immigration, for example, is a jarring contradiction to the Biblical mandate to welcome the stranger and care for the alien. Yet swathes of his Christian supporters such as the evangelical Christians and the so-called Christian Nationalists enthusiastically endorse dehumanizing practices that tear families apart, force asylum seekers into overcrowded detention centers, deport innocent immigrants into El Salvadoran concentration camps, and vilify those fleeing unimaginable hardship. A faith that preaches care for the stranger and love for all is warped to justify cruelty at the borders, oppression of the marginalized, and rejection of truth when it threatens comfort.
When you deify a demon, the world can only burn. The anti-Christ is now the political leader of America, and he has become a spiritual leader of the truly wayward and lost. Some men just want to watch your world burn, while they profit from your suffering. The mob mind of America chose Trump over law, order, reason, and love, and now we are going to be crucified, while Trump’s centurions stand guard until we spiritually perish and cave into his demands.
Leaders such as Trump and JD Vance who claim to protect Christian values instead wield them as tools of manipulation for political gain. They crucify the very essence of Jesus’s message, trading its soul for blind loyalty to ideologies that glorify power and riches over spirituality.
History shows us how misplaced devotion leads to destruction. The masses have long sought saviors in mortal leaders, elevating flawed figures to godlike status. From ancient emperors to modern politicians, such deification blinds people to the harm being done in their name. Today, the deification of divisive figures like Donald Trump echoes this dangerous pattern. Presented as a champion by his followers, this man represents not steadfast morality, but the triumph of ignorance and ego masked as leadership. The anti–Christ has risen, not the Christ for those who profess faith in this disfigured version of leadership.
This misplaced worship is not limited to one individual. It is part of a broader systemic disease where society lifts the unworthy onto pedestals while silencing or crucifying voices of truth. Like Pontius Pilate offering the mob a choice between Jesus and Barabbas, modern society often chooses corruption and self-interest over innocence and integrity. The consequences of such choices manifest in the suffering of the voiceless, the erosion of compassion, and the deepening polarization within humanity.
So today let us choose to heal ourselves and reveal to the world the innocent one, the Christ light unsullied by modern political malfeasance. The true Easter story is not about worshipping a hero who suffered for us. It is about recognizing that we must bear responsibility for healing ourselves and the world. Each of us carries wounds that entomb us. These wounds may have been inflicted by family, culture, or the world, but hiding from them only perpetuates our suffering.
Transformation begins when we stop denying our human vulnerability and instead confront it with courage. Healing is not an easy path, but it is the only way to rise into the fullness of our highest nature. Easter asks us to move beyond mere ritual and into the real work of spiritual awakening. It calls us to push the stone of resistance and ignorance away, to step into the light of our potential, and to embody the love and truth that Jesus exemplified, not just symbolized.
To those who seek truth, know this: organized systems of thought, whether religious or political, are human-made and prone to corruption. They separate us, monetize us, and use fear to control us. True spiritual awakening dismantles these structures rather than upholds them. It reconnects us to the unity of creation, the boundless potential of love, and the freedom of self-realization.
Faith does not require you to kneel before an altar of deceit or conform to societal expectations dressed in religious garb. It does not require you to idolize figures who exploit faith to justify oppression. It does, however, call you to accountability, to awareness, and to the difficult but rewarding work of embodying love and justice in your daily life.
Jesus’s resurrection is a metaphor for our own. It symbolizes the possibility of liberation, not through external saviors, but through the awakening of the divine potential within each one of us. The world will always try to bury the truth, to entomb it behind stones of fear, prejudice, and ignorance. But it is up to us to rise, to embody the teachings, and to reject the corruption that seeks to keep us in darkness.
The true hero of Easter is not the resurrected Jesus but the resurrected soul within us all. The real miracle lies in seeing the world not as a place of suffering to escape, but as a realm of infinite opportunity for healing, connection, and growth.
This Easter do not merely celebrate the resurrection of a man named Jesus 2000 years ago. Embody the resurrection of your own spirit. Rise beyond fear, beyond dogma, beyond the illusions spun by those who seek to control you. Love without limits, forgive without prejudice, and seek truth even when it is inconvenient.
Push the stone away.
Walk out of your tomb.
Rise.
Organize into the growing resistance against the anti-Christ.
