ALAN Taylor's Diary is generally an asset to the paper, but his comments on the Easter story were ill-judged (Diary, Comment, April 8).
I realise he was trying to be funny, and often he is indeed amusing, but this time he was neither fair nor accurate. Referring to Jesus Christ as JC is not in great taste.
Moreover, Jesus did not ascend to heaven when the stone at the mouth of his tomb was rolled away: that confuses the resurrection with the ascension. And there are references to eggs in the books of Deuteronomy, Job, Jeremiah and Luke, as well as the Isaiah verse Alan quotes.
Finally, is it justifiable to refer to "the Bible and all the nonsense it contains"? If Mr Taylor reads further in the book of Isaiah he will come across the following lines written many centuries BC, which accurately predicted Jesus's heroic death on a Roman cross and, for Christians, his atonement for humankind's wrongdoings.
That, not chocolate eggs, is what Easter is all about.
(Dr) Alistair Duff
Cumbernauld
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