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 \nAs he opened the gate to his home,his Uncle Dave pulledinto the driveway.Dave was a geologist and had just returnedfrom Norway where he had been lecturing on some advanced oilexploration developments.Alex knew that he had come to pickup a surfboard and that on Friday morning at 6 A.M.Uncle Davewould be riding the waves.He waved a welcome.  \n\"Hi,Alex,what have you been up to while I was away?I knowcongratulations are in order because you won the science fair.That must really fell good.\"  \n\"Yeah.that was really exciting.I wish you could have beenthere,Mon and Dad were more excited than I was.\"  \n\"I bet!How has it affected your life at school?Do you get anysupport or are kids jealous?After all,you are the youngest win-ner ever.\"  \n\"No,the kids are great.In fact a few guys who never knew lexisted have just asked me to get together with them for a sniffparty.\"  \n\"What's a sniff party?\"  \n\"You know—you put stuff in a bag and sniff it to get high.\"  \n\"What's 'high'?What happens?\"  \n\"I don't know but they tell me you get to the point where noth-ing really matters—you can feel woozy or see colors—I don't  \ncontinued on page 2  \n# The Case of theCounting Cells\n\nT HE N E W S LE T T E R O F T HE SE C U L A R FA MILY NE T W OR K  \nJesus and theEaster Bunny  \nby Robert Price,Professor of Biblical Criticism,Center for Inquiry Institute  \nWhen I was in elementary school back in the early 1960s inMississippi,church and state were not as separate as they arenow.We used to pray the Lord's Prayerled by the teacher,whowould also read us a daily Bible portion.Once l asked about thepossible link between the hairy patriarch Esau and cavemen.Could he have been a Neanderthal?I remember one Easter sea-son we were asked to write a brief essay on what Easter meantto us.For the heck of it,I wrote a first draft that contained my truefeelings:for me Easter was an extravaganza of chocolate bun-nies!Yum yum!But I didn't turn this one in.Instead,I wrote anoth-er in which I told the teacher what she no doubt wanted to hear:that Easter was all about the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.I remember getting a good grade for this piece of astutehypocrisy.But all these years laterI think I was right the first time.  \nSince then I have gone to school many more years thanleverwould have imagined then,almost a life sentence.I went on toean two Ph.D.degrees;the first in Christian theology,the secondin New Testament and Early Christianity.In the meantime l pas-tored a Baptist church and led Easter worship services.One ofthe reasons Ino longer pastor a church,one of the reasons lamnow a humanist,has to do with Easter and what it really repre-sents.You see,the more lI researched the origins of the Christianbelief in the resurrection of Jesus,the more convinced I becamethat the Resurrection was not a historical event at all,not even inthe sense that Jesus'disciples had visions of him risen from thedead on that first Easter moning.  \nI came to believe that the death and resurrection of Jesus wassimply the surviving example of a widespread species of ancientreligions that celebrated the death of vegeta","cbCaibcNmg0j6cc2","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibcNmg0j6cc2","pdf",2580295,"English","# The Case of the Counting Cells\n## Jesus and the Easter Bunny\n## Family Matters' Goals","[{\"question\":\"Who authored the essay “Jesus and the Easter Bunny,” and what topic does it address?\",\"answer\":\"The essay is by Robert Price and focuses on how Easter should be understood, including questions about the resurrection belief and its origins.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the story conflict involving Alex in the narrative section?\",\"answer\":\"Alex is invited by classmates to a “sniff party” but has to decide whether to join after previously being ignored before the science fair.\"},{\"question\":\"What does “Family Matters’ Goals” state as its purpose for secular humanist families?\",\"answer\":\"It aims to affirm and support secular humanist families, provide a forum for sharing solutions to family dilemmas, and promote virtues grounded in courage, fulfillment of ideals, reason, science, and compassionate moral care.\"}]","The Case of the Counting Cells | PDF",1790670135,23]