Today is about the resurrection.

It's Easter. If you're watching this on locals, then this is what's called holding me,

the long lead-up in the liturgical calendar, to the triduum, which is of word describing the three-day

commemoration of Christ's death on the cross, his burial, and then his resurrection on Easter.

If you are watching this out in the broad world, which you should be on locals, go to youngheretics.com

slash locals if you want the episodes in advance. But if you're watching this out in the broad world,

then we've already celebrated the day of Easter Sunday, and we are now contemplating what it means

that Christ is risen. As always, on this show, obviously not all of my listeners and viewers are Christians,

and those of them who are, those of you who are Christians, are Christians of all sorts of different denominations and backgrounds.

And really, I'm not here to preach to you, except insofar as I believe in the truth of Christ's life, death, and resurrection.

What I'm here to do is to tell you about those historical events as watershed moments in the history of the West.

We here are about celebrating and sharing the heritage of the West. We are about teaching the West from the classical mindset

that is giving you the education that the universities don't want you to have anymore.

And so I want to talk about Easter. I want to talk about this story and what it means in the context of everything we've been discussing.

And the big idea here, the thing that I want to stress is that God isn't magic. He's real life.

And what I mean by that is God is supernatural in the sense of the sort of stoic questions that I was raising earlier.

He is beyond nature and he's more than the rules of nature. So people think, especially because there are such things as miracles in the Bible,

and the resurrection is a miracle that is it breaks the rules of what we typically observe in physical life.

People think that this is magic, that it somehow comes from a totally imaginary fantasy world.

But in fact, God is the realist thing. And if we're going to understand these miracles, we have to understand them as things that happen in real life.

And that are embodied in the flesh. That's the point of the incarnation. It's a point of a lot of what I've been saying with this Plato Aristotle distinction.

That even if Plato points us toward the numinous, the world that is above time and space, above what we can see here, touch and feel,

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