The Metrowest Daily News declined to print this letter to the editor when I submitted in on March14, 2012. Clearly, Holmes and Lodge are defenders of the faith even if they have no proof of their faith. Once again, we are approaching the time to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus, one of the three heads of the imaginary Christian sky fairy. In Greek, mythology, Prometheus, a titan God and lowly challenger to Zeus's omniscience and omnipotence, stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. For this inexcusable crime, Zeus had him tied to a stake on Mount Kaukasos and every day for hundreds of years, an eagle would swoop down and eat his liver, but every night, Zeus would heal him, until Herakles finally released Prometheus. Meanwhile, in Christian mythology, Jesus was nailed to a cross for a day. or two for his earthly sins to become a mythical martyr. Prometheus thus suffered for hundreds of years on the mountain cliff while Jesus suffered with his little ouchies on his hands and feet while on his cross having a bad weekend. Which mythical martyr deserves more sympathy from us, Jesus or Prometheus? Christianity, celebrating the irony of a carpenter being nailed to a piece of wood, for over two thousand years. On Easter day, the kids will say: "Thanks for dying, Jesus, the candy's awesome. It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut.

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