The Big City

I find some parts of the old Testament very alarming; those descriptions of mass murder, ethnic cleansing and the cold hearted destruction of entire cities remind me of Nazi crimes during the second world war. One of the most horrifying stories is the description of the killing of every first born child in Egypt. I think that such a sad, awful event should be commemorated, like September the 11th. It surprises me that some people treat the occasion as a celebration. I suppose Easter is a similarly odd cause for celebration - Christians tend to focus on the resurrection rather than the death of Christ but they still use the symbol of the cross rather than a picture of the cave. Even so, it’s those murdered Egyptian children I’ll be thinking about during Passover.